Art Appreciation 101: The two rules of awesome SF/fantasy art Since I got my Kindle last year, I've purchased, hmm, 5 book-books, and only because they weren't available on the Kindle and I required them immediately. So, I often forget about cover art, these days, which is a shame. There's some great stuff out there. Sometimes, however, when I see the cover art for books I've read on the Kindle, I'm taken aback. Still, I browse the Chris McGrath site now and then and I get samples of everything he's made a cover for - I figure if he's making the art, it's gotta be a decent book. 15 Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to. In this selection we’re glad to present you Aller Sans, Mayberry Pro SemiBold, Quicksand, Agrafa Hairline, Sketch Rockwell, Megalopolis Extra and a couple of other high-quality free fonts. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the fonts — the license can change from time to time. Free Fonts Of March1 features Myndraine, Museo Sans as well as handwritten and grungy fonts.40 Excellent Free Fonts For Professional Design2You can find over 80 more free fonts in our section Fonts3. 15 Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts Mayberry Pro SemiBold8 (registration is required) AscenderFonts released the font Mayberry Pro Semi Bold available for free download.
The Typographic Desk Reference | i love typography, the typography and fonts blog A Brief review One can never have too many books about type and typography. One of the most recent additions to my own library is Theodore Rosendorf’s The Typographic Desk Reference or, if you’re in a hurry, simply TDR. From the outset it’s worth stressing that this is not a how-to book. It does not compete with Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style or Felici’s The Complete Manual of Typography. It is, as its title makes quite clear, a reference book. Comprising four main sections, it’s pretty easy to find your way around — something essential in a book of reference. Section one, TERMS A collection of the most important type terms. Section two, GLYPHS A listing of the standard ISO and extended Latin character set glyphs. Section three, ANATOMY & FORM Everything from definitions for the familiar ascender and descender to the less familiar like beard and double struck. Section four, CLASSIFICATION & SPECIMENS A tricky one. A great deal of work has gone into this little book.
Creating a Logotype Depends More on the Means Than the End The process of designing a type-based logo is similar to that of designing a shape-based logo. Both logos need to convey a message, do it quickly and appease the client’s taste. All of these objectives can be accomplished by defining goals, favoring message over convention and questioning our assumptions as designers—even to the point of considering Arial or Helvetica. Anyone who designs a logo faces many questions. What should it look like? Graphic design is a process of solving problems through visual communication. What’s the Project? Smalls, Middleton & Bigman, a fictional law firm, hires a professional design company to develop its company logo. It must be easily recognizable. These could apply to any logo for any company. In what specialties does it excel? Smalls, Middleton & Bigman is an aggressive new firm specializing in regional real estate deals. The designer immediately sets out to create a logotype. The Importance of Shape The examples above aren’t logotypes. Text Informs.
The Anthology Project - Home Free Fonts Of The Month: Freebooter Script, Cora Basic - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to. This month we are glad to present you Freebooter Script, Cora Basic Regular, Walkway and Karabine. Free Fonts Of April features GrauBlau and Nevis.You can find over 80 more free fonts in our section Fonts. Free Fonts Of The Month Freebooter Script This script type literally impresses with its curves. Cora Basic Regular (OpenType) A solid and strong sans-serif typeface designed by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione is available for free for non-commercial purposes. Karabine Fancy “hand-drawing” typeface by Jonathan Paquette. It's done.
30 Sites For Fantastic, Free Fonts Choosing the right font can make or break a design, but what do you do when you don’t already have the perfect font in your arsenal? One of the points raised in the discussion following Kevin’s recent post is that purchasing fonts can be insanely expensive, and even if you do buy one, are you sure it will be exactly what you were looking for? Luckily there are numerous sources on the Web for free fonts, and while not all of them allow for commercial use, a good number of them do. What follows is a list of 30 sites where you can find free fonts, use a tool to make your own, or just have some fun with fonts after you’ve spent hours staring at them. Free Font Sites 1001freeFonts.com: Although their name only mentions 1,001 fonts, they actually have over 10,000 free ones that you can download. AbstractFonts.com: Offers thousands of free true-type fonts with lots of information contained on the page for each. Creamundo.com: A large selection of some very nice fonts in TrueType format.
dafont.com "Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal" Thus go words that Pablo Picasso may have uttered, although (1) I cannot find definitive attribution anywhere and (2) a great many other writers, poets, songwriters and visual artists have supposedly said almost the exact same thing. (You can read the last word [pun intended] on that which T.S. Eliot said here, and kudos to Nancy Prager for her detective work.) Within the past week I've read about both the source of Shepard Fairey's Obama-HOPE head shot (hint: the artist didn't shoot it himself, nor did he pay to use it) and a lawsuit filed against Richard Prince for lifting a photographer's series of portraits, putting daubs of paint on them and selling the results as his own original work. Assuming that Picasso did say this--and seriously, I would love to learn of a verifiable source--I think the words "Good artists borrow, great artists steal" constitute one of the most misunderstood and misused creative phrases of all time.
30 Brilliant Typefaces For Corporate Design - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Designing a beautiful, legible typeface is hard work and takes time and patience. The type family has to convey a message clearly and effectively, regardless of the setting in which it is used. Of course, thousands of freely available fonts are out there, and some free fonts are very impressive1. We looked around and researched recently released corporate typefaces that have been frequently recommended, mentioned or discussed on popular typography-related blogs, forums and magazines. Below, you’ll find 35 brilliant new typefaces for corporate design. You may also want to take a look at the following related posts: Please be patient; this page might take some time to load. 1. Bodoni Script Pro6 | PDF specimen7 | Price: €69+ Designed by Panos Vassillou, this typeface was designed with connected characters and capitals with calligraphic elements. 2. Geogrotesque8 | Gallery9 | Price: $50 each Geogrotesque is a semi-modular typeface with a subtle rounded finish. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.