Confessions of a Designer In design, as in any domain, there are certain preconceptions about what designers think and do. This is a collection of quotes that Anneke Short (the same designer who made these awesome music lyrics related posters) has either thought herself or that she has heard her designer friends say. Personally, she says, that the biggest preconceived idea is that a project will take however long it takes to sketch it up, whereas nine times out of ten, it is the concept and not the implementation that takes time. Hence ‘just come up with a few quick logos’ being a total oxymoron. by Anneke Short About the author Hi, my name is Houke de Kwant.
Top 87 Fonts A Designer Should Download Fonts are very useful for a designer. Only if you would take into consideration the typography mania and you have a great argument for the intelligent use of fonts. The web safe fonts seem boring at a certain moment. With sIFR and other web technologies you can insert any font you want in a website and you can give the site a more interesting style. So, let’s say you aaren’t a web designer, you are more a graphic designer, you make >quality logos and other interesting things. Advent Akzidenz Grotesk Angleterre Book Anivers Adobe Garamond AvantGarde Avenir Bebas Bell Centennial Bobel Boris Black Bloxx Cash Adobe Caslon Clarendon Coolvetica Courier Cranberry Blues Crea Delicious Digital Ninja Dreamforge classic Eight One Excelsior Felbridge Fertigo Fontin Sans Fracta ITC Franklin Gothic Heavy Frutiger Futura Gothique Cursive Headline Helvetica Hit the Road Homeboots Imperator Incinerator Kenyan Coffee Long Tall Sally Lucida Media Gothic Minion Murder of the day Museo Myriad Neue Helvetica Nevis Ogive Curvature Oktober Optimus Princeps
The Ministry of Type How to Select The Perfect Color for Your Website The Internet is an almost inexhaustible source of applications and sites and given the current trend the future will bring a steady growth both in numbers but also in importance. The winner of this avalanche of possibilities is definitely the Internet user who will decide who will thrive and who will require a rethinking or changing of strategy. One of the most important factors in attracting customers is the color; its eye-catching power can convert visitors into regular users or customers. Choosing a color scheme for a site is not easy, this being emphasized by the importance of color in the whole ensemble. Another advantage in choosing the right color layout is the power of suggestion, vision is color dominated, and in the absence of writing it will take certain meanings. This has applications not only in web design but also in everyday life, depending on the culture and tradition, for example white represents purity for Europeans whilst for some areas of China and Africa mourning.
21 Latest Free Fonts for Your Designs It’s essential for Designers to have a good understanding of typography and selection as the importance of typography in design can’t be neglected. The proper selection of typography can convert your normal design into attractive piece of art. Among other things, effective typography manages to achieve three necessary objectives of web designing are Look, Appearance and Outcome which helps you to keep apart from normal wave. Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner. Below you’ll find Collection of High-Quality Latest Free Fonts To Enhance Your Designs by which you can save money and focus on making great applications. The basic purpose behind this post is to show you Popular, Artistic and most importantly Free Downloadable font types to save your time searching them online. You can also find some related free references at the end of the post. 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07.
The Basics of Typography Typography is a central component of design. It gives us an understanding of the heritage behind our craft. It’s one of the primary ways we, as a society, pass on information to others. Imagine a website, a magazine or even TV without text. What Is Typography? From a descriptive and simplistic point-of-view, typography is the arrangement of type. For me, how typography is used in a design is deeply rooted in its overall theme, tone and message. Your choice of typefaces and your technique of setting type give your composition its character, pace and style. A simple illustration of how influential typography can be is to look at the same text with different typefaces. It’s this level of integration with a design theme that makes typography one of the most powerful tools in the designer’s toolbox. Next, let’s go through a few basic typography terms and concepts. Lines A line of characters has at least five lines that it can be aligned to. Here are the five lines: Leading Leading is powerful.
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