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50 Helpful Typography Tools And Resources - Smashing Magazine

50 Helpful Typography Tools And Resources - Smashing Magazine
Advertisement We love beautiful typography, and we appreciate the efforts of designers who come up with great typographic techniques and tools or who just share their knowledge with fellow designers. We are always looking for such resources. We compile them, carefully select the best ones and then prepare them for our round-ups. And now it’s time to present a beautiful fresh dose of typography-related resources. To help you improve the typography in your designs, we’re presenting here useful new articles, tools and resources related to typography. You may be interested in the following related posts: Typography: References and Useful Resources The Taxonomy of TypeThis article’s purpose is to help us as designers to distinguish basic properties of types. Typedia: A Shared Encyclopedia of TypefacesTypedia is a resource to classify, categorize, and connect typefaces. Typeface Anatomy and GlossaryMany fonts have abbreviations in their names. Finding The Right Type Combining Type Type Design

60+ Really awesome Typography Showcases | tripwire magazine We all know it – “A picture is worth a thousand words“. This is certainly true in most cases but clever use of typography can also turn words into pictures and then interesting things start to happen. Some people experiment with the idea of turning typography into art and pictures and I believe the results can be very interesting and inspiring. In particular this type of art is commonly seen on posters, in logos, on walls (graffiti), etc. Sit back and enjoy the Experimental Typography I discovered on Flickr today. You might also like these articles: [exec]$filestr = file_get_contents(‘ echo $filestr;[/exec] Lars started tripwire magazine back in January 2009.

Fonts2u.com Technical Web Typography: Guidelines and Techniques Type Classification Type Classification There are thousands of different typefaces and fonts available to designers, printers, publishers, artists and writers (as well as the general public) today. There are all types of display and text typefaces and everything in between. Most are available in a digital format from a variety of type foundries and can easily be used, and exploited, with modern computer technology. The vast amount of type available makes specific classification of every one nearly impossible and somewhat frivolous. Calligraphic Letters associated with the art of calligraphy and the fonts developed from their production can be classified as calligraphic. Example: Blackletter Blackletter typefaces are a script style of calligraphy that were popularized in Germany, although they were used all over Europe from the middle ages through the Renaissance. Examples: Serif Serifed typefaces were popular much earlier than sans-serif typefaces and include semi-structural details on many of the letters.

Exploiter n&#039;importe quelle police dans vos pages HTML avec FLIR - Alsacréations FLIR est une solution axée sur une combinaison PHP/Javascript. Elle génère dynamiquement une image à partir d'un texte contenu dans votre page web dans une police de caractère déposée sur votre serveur et qui, autrement, ne pourrait pas être vue par vos visiteurs. L'image générée sera automatiquement insérée dans votre page à l'aide de Javascript et visible sur tous les navigateurs modernes. N'importe quel élément contenant du texte peut être remplacé depuis les headers (<h1>, <h2>, etc...) jusqu'aux éléments <span>. Avant de vous jeter les yeux fermés dans l'éxecution de ce tutoriel, sachez que désormais CSS offre la possibilité - beaucoup plus souple et accessible - d'inclure une police "exotique" dans une page web grâce à la propriété @font-face. Par ailleurs, l'utilisation de FLIR requiert un serveur web supportant PHP et la librairie GD. Et voilà ce que vous devriez obtenir : Etape 1 - Mise en place de Facelift Ouvrez "flir.js" dans un éditeur de code et rendez vous ligne 28.

FontFont Typeface Library by FSI FontShop International 13,554 free fonts for Windows and Mac Know Your Typefaces! Semantic Differential Presentation of 40 Onscreen Typefaces By A. D. Shaikh Summary. Introduction While there has been quite a bit of research on the perception of printed type, there has not been a thorough investigation into the perception of onscreen type. Figure 1. The responses reduced down to three factors to describe the typefaces: Evaluative, Potency, and Activity. Potency reflects typefaces that are seen as having strength, power, or force.Evaluative reflects typefaces that are viewed as having value, worth, and importance.Activity reflects typefaces that are considered to be full of energy, movement, and action. The factors were correlated; Potency and Activity were positively correlated, and Potency and Evaluative were negatively correlated. Table 1. Figure 2. [Back to Table 1] *Note: This article presents a small portion of findings from Dawn Shaikh’s dissertation investigating the perceptions of typeface personality. Osgood, C. Like this: Like Loading...

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