Choosing the Right Font: A Practical Guide to Typography on the Web Typography is an huge field. People devote years of their lives to this ancient craft, and yet there's always something new to learn. In this article, I'll be reviewing the major points that you should consider when selecting a typeface for a website. Republished Tutorial Every few weeks, we revisit some of our reader's favorite posts from throughout the history of the site. Practical Typography When you design for the web, you have to accept that the content will change. What I'm going to be focusing on today is practical typography. Readability What do you do with type? By making your type readable, you immediately jump ahead of at least half of the competition, which is fortunate, really, because it's not that hard! Typefaces When deciding what typeface to use on your website, it's important to remember: don't over think it. While it may go against your beliefs to set your type in such an abused face, if it works, then go for it. That covers body copy, but what about titles? Pairing Size
Les formats de polices typographiques pour le Web Commençons par une petite analyse macroscopique Un fichier de police typographique contient toutes les informations requises pour qu’un ordinateur puisse afficher les caractères correspondant. Cela comprend en général : L’ensemble des tracés vectoriels de chacun des caractères (il existe également des formats de polices typographiques Bitmap, mais leur usage est ultra spécifique et jamais sur le Web)Des meta-données diverses et variéesDes informations supplémentaires pour gérer le lissage de la police à l’écran et de manière générale le changement d’échelle des caractères vectoriels (on utilise souvent l’anglicisme « Hinting »)Des informations supplémentaires pour gérer les approches entre caractères (on utilise souvent l’anglicisme « Kerning ») Outre le fait que tous les formats de polices typographiques ne sont pas égaux face à ces 4 points, chacun répond à des problématiques parfois différentes et il peut être difficile de s’y retrouver. Le format de police SVG (.svg) Support navigateur
11 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts Whether it’s textures, Photoshop brushes, or icons, we love finding high-quality freebies and sharing them with our readers. We try to post at least one collection of free stuff every week. We do the searching so you don’t have to. Matilde Color Lines SayTwo Lintel Regular Teardrop Ubuntu League Script Espinova Nosa Regular Melbourne OricNeo Tenderness About the Author Henry Jones is a web developer, designer, and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience. Related Posts 925 shares 10 Best New Free Fonts We’ve been on the prowl for some new free fonts to share with you. Read More 1138 shares 9 Free & Useful Fonts for your Designs Whether it’s PSD’s or icons, we love finding high quality free files and sharing them with our readers.
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Beautiful (Free) Fonts for Titles and Headlines What do you first notice before you start reading an article’s content? It’s the title and title delivers the basic idea of what is to be discussed in an article. For example, people are able to catch the drift of an advertisement base on its title. If you manage to produce a magnetic title, you are for the win because when a title is appealing and interesting, people will take the content of your article seriously. Applying a suitable font for a title or headline is a challenging task because every different headline will need a different font to make its title appealing and interesting. Here are more fonts related articles we’ve previously posted: Telegraphico Old Sans Black HeadLine SF Movie Poster Dinova Media Gothic Florencesans SC Sans Thirteen Black X Scale Space Marine Xcelsion 7th Services Old Republic Guardian Bitsumishi He’s Dead Jim Hagane Fireye Ash font Breakaway AutoBahn font Carbon Block Dorado Headline Corporate HQ Good Times ChokToff Kimberly Pirulen font SF Old Republic Final Frontier Fortune City
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11 New High-Quality Free Fonts Every week we try to hunt down high-quality freebies for our readers. One of our favorite freebies to find for you are fonts, because everybody knows… you can never have too many fonts in your library. In this post, we’ve rounded up 11 brand new fonts that are super high-quality. AW Conqueror (to download, click on Solutions > Typefaces in the left menu) Alt Tiwo Alt Matey Doughboy The Olney Font Family Geomancy Paper Boat Neu Eichmass Oh! Ingleby BS Konstata About the Author Henry Jones is a web developer, designer, and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience. Related Posts 905 shares 10 Best New Free Fonts We’ve been on the prowl for some new free fonts to share with you. Read More 1136 shares 9 Free & Useful Fonts for your Designs Whether it’s PSD’s or icons, we love finding high quality free files and sharing them with our readers.
20 Must-Read Blogs for your Typography Needs Typography is the most crucial part in any web design, designer should know what is “in fashion” according to modern trends available in market. For this purpose they should take regular dose of typography related news, articles and inspirations. There are many resources to fulfill your typography need, but today we have collected top 20 from them. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. fridayfonts 18. 19. we love typography 20. 27 Fresh And Creative Fonts For Free Download Every month or two, we look around for fresh fonts and present them to our readers. A month back, we compiled list of free high-quality fonts which are appreciated by our readers. This time we are again to provide you an incredible selection of fresh fonts that are absolutely free to use and will save lot of your time. The fonts listed below are beautiful, creative and some are experimental fonts that are designed by various professionals. But before using these free fonts for commercial projects, please be sure to legal documents because some of these are only for personal use. And for this post, we have rounded up 27 fresh and creative fonts for free download. [re] [rss] [ad1] 1. Download Free Font 2) Oh Mai Mai! Download Free Font 3) Age Download Free Font 4) Piron Download Free Font 5) Typeface Adec Download Free Font 6) QUB Font Download Free Font 7) Jellyka CuttyCupcakes Download Free Font 8 ) akaDora Download Free Font 9) Aura 10) Citrus Download Free Font 11) Dirtybag Download Free Font 19) Ledlight
100 Great Free Fonts for Designers High quality fonts can add great feel and an extra touch to design, whether it be web or graphic design, or they can form the basis for a creative typography piece. While there are certain high quality paid fonts that are overused, such as Helvetica and Avenir, there are tons of free fonts out there just waiting to be used in design. This post showcases 100 great free fonts for graphic and web designers as well as digital artists to use in their work. Please be sure to read the usage agreement for details about commercial vs. noncommercial works, as each font’s license differs based on the artist’s agreement for using the font. It’s always better to be safe than sorry when using free resources in your commercial works. If you liked this post, check out: Hope you find them useful! Windsong Wild Script WC Roughtrad WC Mano Negra Urban Sketch Tabitha Swenson Sophie Snyder Speed Brush Sketchy Sketch Rockwell Simplelife Shelter me Serena Hand of sean Scrubble Rough Draft Rickles Redstar Radio preludeflf-bold Pisan
“What Font Should I Use?”: Five Principles for Choosing and Using Typefaces - Smashing Magazine Advertisement For many beginners, the task of picking fonts is a mystifying process. There seem to be endless choices — from normal, conventional-looking fonts to novelty candy cane fonts and bunny fonts — with no way of understanding the options, only never-ending lists of categories and recommendations. Selecting the right typeface is a mixture of firm rules and loose intuition, and takes years of experience to develop a feeling for. Here are five guidelines for picking and using fonts that I’ve developed in the course of using and teaching typography. 1. Many of my beginning students go about picking a font as though they were searching for new music to listen to: they assess the personality of each face and look for something unique and distinctive that expresses their particular aesthetic taste, perspective and personal history. The most appropriate analogy for picking type. For better or for worse, picking a typeface is more like getting dressed in the morning. 2. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.