Fonts. Quality Typography Design Work. Type Night. Inspiration: 30 Web Designs with Beautiful Typography. Font choice, letter-spacing (tracking), line height, foreground/background colors, size, style — all of these oftentimes disparate attributes must work together cohesively in order to produce typographic compositions that are harmonious and viewed by its audiences with resilient assiduity.
For your visual inspiration, here are websites that exhibit skillfully composed typography. Time For Change Nissan Journey to zero Dave Barnes The Combine Carsonified Worry Free Labs The Sunny Side of Life Brian Hoff dConstruct Enliven Labs Collision BeerCamp Stephen Caver Armitage Online Marie Catribs Happy Cog’aoke 2 Made By Water Blake Allen Design Blue Sky Resumes Fail-ure BountyBev Salt of the Earth Chirp TypeFaces Midtsommerjazz Digital Podge BlissfullyAware Foundation Six Author: Jacob Gube. 12 Websites to Go to for Typography Inspiration. Are you in need of typography inspiration?
Here are some excellent online galleries and showcase sites that dedicate themselves to finding and featuring great typography from around the Web. 1. Type Hunting 2. We Love Typography 3. 4. typegoodness 5. Help. BgPatterns — Background Patterns Maker. Simple as Milk Design Studio. Lost Type Co-op. Fonts. Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses. Drag and drop font testing. WhatFont Tool - The easiest way to inspect fonts in webpages « Chengyin Liu. ← Back to Chengyin's main page What is the easiest way to find out the fonts used in a webpage?
Firebug or Webkit Inspector? No, that's too complicated. It should be just a click away. Hence I wrote WhatFont, with which you can easily get font information about the text you are hovering on. To embrace the new web font era, WhatFont also detects services used for serving the font. Font name? Want to know more? Want the font? Want to share your discovery? ← Drag this to your bookmark bar to install On any webpage, click your WhatFont bookmark to use the tool.
Full support: Firefox 3.6+, Chrome 9+, Safari 4+, Internet Explorer 9. Limited support: Internet Explorer 8. ↑Install the extension from Chrome Web Store. On any webpage, click WhatFont button to use the tool. Download Now After downloading, open the extension file to install. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Email chengyin.liu@gmail.com Twitter @chengyinliu The tool should auto-update itself. Hosted on Github. Typo & webdesign : une histoire d’amour. Typo & webdesign : une histoire d’amour Quelle soit utilisé de façon subtile ou comme élément graphique à part entière, la typographie est un des éléments principaux d’une page web.
Voyons ensemble quelques exemples d’utilisations de typographies, parmi quelques sites choisis avec goût, et surtout, quelques outils bien pratiques pour les amateurs de typo sur le web Les webdesigners sont parmi les plus gros consommateurs de typographies. Toujours à la recherche de la typo qui tue pour son prochain projet web, les façons de l’accommoder, les espacements, les interlignes, etc… Ça peut être fait avec goût, ou pas.
Ça peut être subtil, clairement marqué, ou bien encore un élément central de la composition. La typographie subtile Le site de Sasha Greif utilise la typo Proxima Nova Soft, dans une taille assez grosse, avec des interlignes importants. La typo graphique Ou la typo utilisé comme élément graphique de l’interface. Quelques outils pour bien décortiquer les typos sur le web WhatTheFont! Branding, graphic design, typography and web design. Another 50 Inspiring Typography Artists My last post of 50 inspiring typographic artists was so well received, that I decided to compile another list.
This time I was ably assisted by Simon Ålander, Jackson Alves and Bobby Haiqalsyah who all generously hit me up with their awesome lists and I found a few more by poking around on Dribbble and Behance. 50 Inspiring Typographic Artists … and me I put the call out on Facebook and Twitter recently to see which typographers and calligraphers were inspiring people at the moment.
The results were interesting, because very few of them were “typographers” in the true sense of the word, in that, they don’t “arrange typefaces for print”. Dash it all. Every year, I run a pop quiz with my third year design students and every year, very few of them are 100% clear on how the three dashes should be used. Is_webfont:true.