10 Principles For Readable Web Typography - Smashing Magazine
Advertisement by Matt Cronin Readability is one of the more important aspects of Web design usability.
For the Love of Logos: Tips, Resources, and More - Noupe Design Blog
Jan 12 2011 When it comes to design projects, logo designs tend to be some of the trickiest to work with, simply because of their purpose. All design tends to be conveying a message, this is true, but most designs get to use so much more to make their points accessible to the viewer. Not to mention that the message being conveyed through most design gets to be a bit more focused or general as well. This is not always true with a logo. Logos usually have much more to convey with a much simpler vehicle to make their message land.
Inspirational Showcase Of Type-Based Logos
A proper use of type is fundamental to create a good, and working, logo design. There are some logos where the typography is the essential element of the design, and where the designer works to make unique and communicative any single typeface. We are talking of typographic logos. A clean and direct type-based logo can be a good solution to represent a serious company and many designers love researching the perfect balance among typefaces to create stunning logos, that’s not an easy operation… anyway they can be very effective, they can communicate in a simple and clever way a strong message. Below you can see a collection of 60+ type-based logos, they are very clever and highly communicative.
Logo Design Portfolio
Mariner Resorts, The Bahamas – Logo Design Logo Design for a waterfront properties company. We were hired to be the logo designer for Mariner Resorts, a resort management and marketing company dedicated to waterfront destination properties in the Bahamas. They are looking to offer their brand to existing properties who need a more efficient way of operating and bringing guests to their properties. […] Continue reading... Green Island Real Estate Logo Design
Create a Letterpress Effect with CSS Text-Shadow
The letterpress effect is becoming hugely popular in web design, and with a couple of modern browsers now showing support for the text-shadow CSS3 property it’s now simple and easy to create the effect with pure CSS. No Photoshop trickery here! Letterpress – Isn’t that a type of industrial print method? That’s right! But the effect has also made its way into web design.
35 Stylish and Beautiful Examples of Logo Design
Advertisement A Logo is a graphical element that, together with its logotype forms a trademark or commercial brand name. The Unique and Quality Logo is one aspect of a company’s commercial or economic entity that your clients will remember you and get back to you. Designers keep in mind few factors to make beautiful logos shapes, colors, fonts, and images usually different from others in a similar market. Logos are assets of a company and used to identify organization. These collections help you give an idea of company logo, corporate logo, and non-commercial logos.
10 Examples of Beautiful CSS Typography and how they did it… » - Web Design Marketing Podcast & Blog
Lately I have been very interested in how far we can take Typography only using CSS. Sure you can use images or sIFR to produce some very beautiful typography, but there is something unique and special about using only CSS. It is incredibly useful too, if you know the extent you can take CSS you end up with much more flexible websites— especially ones driven by a CMS. Think about how difficult sIFR or images get when you want to replicate that typography or typeface over 100 pages powered by a CMS.
Logo Design Trend Showcase: Retro Emblems & Badges
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Handwritten Typographers
Hit pause for a moment and consider how greatly we – people in the digital age – are indebted to typographers. Almost all of our visual communication is delivered using the products of their craft: newspapers, SMSes, instant messages, emails, web pages, signs, posters, billboards; the list of purposes is endless. In these days where looping strokes have been replaced by keyboard clickety-clack, typographers define the style and tone of our missives. Would you like to be elegant, modern, childish or ... disturbed? Then you can choose between Garamond, Montag, Comic Sans, Zebraflesh, and a thousand more. There's great power in a typeface, but what's always interested me more than the typeface is the designer behind it – why did they create the typeface?
50+ Amazing Logos
Personally, I think logo design is one field that requires a constant dose of inspiration. You need a very creative and unique concept, but it needs to be represented in a way that is understandable and appropriate for the company. Here are over 50 logos and logotypes that properly display an excellent idea. Check out the bottom of the post for more logo inspiration resources. Feel free to contribute more awesome logos by dropping a comment.
50 Examples of Effective Uses of Typography Within Web Design : Speckyboy Design Magazine
Currently, two of the most popular web design trends are: taking the minimal approach, which we will look at next week, and the use of clever and creative typography. Today we focus on typography. Not only do we showcase typography in the classic sense, but also illustrate that the combination of web design and great typography can be used effectively, along with clever color selection, and create usable web sites thats base design is dominated by text, for either navigation, a good headline, a logo or even used for the entire content.
30 Minimal Logo Designs that Say More with Less
A logo is the visual cornerstone of one’s branding. While some logos are complex, often the most memorable ones are those that are simplistic. Instead of relying on detailed graphics and icons, these minimal logos rely on creative typography, simple shapes, and clever negative space to tell the story.
