Movies - TypeCulture® The Creation of a Printing Type From The Design to The Print by Frederic W. Goudy. This silent film from the 1930s shows the preeminent American type designer Frederic Goudy (1865-1947) creating his typeface Goudy Saks. Watch (00:10:16) Typomania Do you need to explain the significance of type to your parents, your Aunt Edna or the first-year students in your Typography 101 class? Watch (00:06:59) To a “T” First broadcast in May 2006 on the popular CBS Sunday Morning television show, this is an introduction to the world of fonts that combines well with Typomania to provide newcomers with different views on the purposes and significance of typefaces. Watch (00:03:16) Douglas Coffin, Lettercarver While this film may not be about type, it abounds with beautiful letters. Watch (00:06:45) Letterpress Printing This fabulous short film about John Kristensen‘s Firefly Press in Somerville, Massachusetts was created by journalist and videographer Chuck Kraemer for WGBH, Channel 2 in Boston. The Linotype
How To Use Color To Enhance Your Designs People are physically, psychologically, and socially influenced by color. Color has been found to have connections to health and it can help set the mood through which your designs are seen. Color communicates meaning and so we need to be conscious of what meaning we’re conveying when we choose to use one color over another. Color is a tool in the designer’s toolbox much the same as a grid or whitespace and it’s important to understand how to use that tool. Last week we talked about the color theory and how we could represent color and choose different color schemes. Color Meaning The first and perhaps most important thing to understand about the meaning of color is that there is no substantive evidence that support a universal system of color meaning. Even within a single culture individual differences will exist. The above means that it’s important to understand who your target audience is and how your audience attaches meaning to color. Red: is the color of fire and blood. Summary
dafont.com Choosing Fonts In Web Design Questions about fonts and how best to use then in web design come up often. Questions about which family of font to use or what font size is the best are common issues that face web designers. Your font choices will make a huge difference in the readability of your site. As with most everything in design there are no hard and fast rules, though there are some general guidelines you can follow. For the most part I wouldn’t recommend making all your text an image, especially if you ever want a search engine to see it. Provide Options In Font Families The choice of font family is usually one of the first you’ll make with your type. You don’t have to limit yourself to only the most generic fonts, but rather provide browsers options in a sense of what to use. font-family: <ideal>, <alternative>, <common>, <generic>; Browsers will display the first font-family they come across in the above code that’s installed on that computer. font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; Types Of Font
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Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Even with a relatively limited set of options in CSS, typography can vary tremendously using pure CSS syntax. Serif or sans-serif? Large or small font? Line height, spacing, font size and padding… The list goes on and on. To find typographic design patterns that are common in modern Web design and to resolve some common typographic issues, we conducted extensive research on 50 popular websites on which typography matters more than usual (or at least should matter more than usual). We’ve carefully analyzed their typography and style sheets and searched for similarities and differences. Ultimately, we identified 13 general typographic problems and issues related to typographic design and tried to find answers to them through our research: How popular are serif and sans-serif typefaces in body copy and headlines? We ended up with solid data, which we evaluated and prepared for this article. 1. Two thirds of the websites we surveyed used sans-serif fonts for body copy. 2. 3. 4.
kuler 50+ Current Tutorials From Around The Web Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off. In this post, I have rounded up a collection of very useful tutorials from around the web from the month of January. You’ll find everything from a Colorful Retro Futuristic Poster in Photoshop, to creating a Surreal Desert Scene. So what are you waiting for…why not try one out? Want more articles on useful tutorials? Web Layout Designs: 60 Must Have Tutorials 30 Must See Character Illustration Tutorials 40 Useful Photoshop Tutorials for Photo Manipulation Create a stormy Harry Potter Text effect in Photoshop Create a stormy Harry Potter Text effect in Photoshop Create An Editable Metal Type Treatment Create An Editable Metal Type Treatment Create a Cool and Realistic Denim textured typography Create a Cool and Realistic Denim textured typography How to Create a Stereoscopic Image for Crossed Eye Image Viewing How to Create a Stereoscopic Image for Crossed Eye Image Viewing
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. This tutorial was first published in October of 2010. 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. Pairing
5 InDesign Typing Rules « InDesign Docs When so many users complained about not having a way to save backwards from InDesign CS4 to InDesign CS2, I offered to convert files. Many people have taken me up on this offer. As a result, I’ve been able to see documents people have been working on. I also noticed a few common typing errors that should be avoided. 1. A hyphen divides a compound word, such as “post-Colonial.” An em dash indicates a break in thought—what was I talking about? An en dash is used to indicate a range of numbers, such as “35–44.” Some people prefer using the en dash – instead of the em dash – in the middle of a sentence because it looks better than the em dash. 2. If you don’t like the way InDesign composes text and decide to break up a word with a hyphen, use a discretionary hyphen (Type > Insert Special Character > Hyphens and Dashes > Discretionary Hyphen). 3. Use straight quotation marks (" ") when you’re typing code. Use the prime mark (′) to indicate feet, arcminutes, or minutes of time. 4. 5.
Type glossary Aesc (phonetic: ash) A ligature of two letters - 'a' and 'e'. The aesc derives from Old English, where it represented a diphthong vowel, and has successfully migrated to other alphabets including Danish and Icelandic. Aperture The constricted opening of a glyph, as seen in the letter 'e'. Varying the size of the aperture has a direct effect on the legibility of a letterform and, ultimately, readability. Ascender The part of a lower case letterform that projects above the x-height of the font. BaselineThe baseline is where the feet of your capital letters sit. Bowl The shapely, enclosed parts of letters such as 'p' and 'b'. Beak The beak-shaped terminal at the top of letters such as 'a', 'c', 'f' and 'r'. Bicameral (as opposed to Unicameral) Bicameral refers to alphabets that have upper and lower case letterforms, such as Roman and Cyrillic - as opposed to the likes of Hebrew and Arabic. Bracket A wedge-like shape that joins a serif to the stem of a font in some typefaces.
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Top 7 Fonts Used By Professionals In Graphic Design Posted on 23'08 Sep Posted on September 23, 2008 along with 281 JUST™ Creative Comments Although there have been many other most used font posts, most of them outline fonts used by the ‘not-so-well-trained’ designer. In this post I want to outline the fonts that are often used by the more ‘professional’ of designers. This article is the third article of four in this series. The Four Part Series 1. Without a doubt, Helvetica is the most heavily used font by professionals (and also by the not so professional) in graphic design. And as Vivien pleas in her 16 most overused fonts article, “Understand that you can’t always rely on Helvetica to illustrate and deliver your every message. 2. Trajan finds its way into many Hollywood movie posters and anything remotely to do with religion, law, marriage, class or the past. A bit of history on the font Trajan… Trajan is an old style serif typeface designed in 1989 by Carol Twombly for Adobe. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Close Contenders Still type hungry?