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Showcase of Beautiful Typography in Web Design Nov 23 2009 Everybody loves a nice bit of typography. This year we have seen some absolutely stunning typographic layouts used in print, web and game design. Using typography in web design can really help to spice things up, so take a look through these beautiful examples of typography used in modern web design to help inspire you when it comes to producing your own typography based designs for the web. There are many different styles that are used nowadays when it comes to typography in web design – a lot of them are put into place in minimalistic and simple designs such as ALGA New Yorks, Buddy Carrs Skateboards and Corking Designs website, all of which use large, bold lettering on a simplistic design which typically uses no more than 3 or 4 colors. Jam Hot is just one of the many in this showcase that uses incredible Flash effects to produce awesome animated typography combined with great illustration – a real eye opener! Beautiful Typography in Web Design Oliver Kavanagh Fray Gummisig
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Free Fonts Download 8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs • Blog Archive • AisleOne I wrote this article for Smashing Magazine and it was published last Friday on their site. I’m re-publishing it here for your reading pleasure. Enjoy. Many people, designers included, think that typography consists of only selecting a typeface, choosing a font size and whether it should be regular or bold. For most people it ends there. But there is much more to achieving good typography and it’s in the details that designers often neglect. These details give the designer total control, allowing them to create beautiful and consistent typography in their designs. Measure The measure is the length of a line of type. A simple way to calculate the measure is to use Robert Bringhurst’s method which multiples the type size by 30. Leading Leading is the space between the lines of type in a body of copy that plays a big role in readability. Many factors affect leading: typeface, type size, weight, case, measure, wordspacing, etc. Hanging Quotes Scale
Typography Meets Infographics on Datavisualization Fontshop is celebrating its 20th birthday and they invite us to celebrate with them. On this occasion they’ve created a delicate infographic documenting amusing and enlightening statistics. If you like what you see there’s more for you to celebrate: the infographic is growing over the coming weeks. Designing Social Interfaces: Overview and Practical Techniques - Advertisement The standard approach to interface design is to craft a channel that allows you to easily and efficiently control hardware or software; it’s all about the interaction between people and computers. But today, the two entities on each side of the user interface are changing: it’s no longer about people interacting with computers, but rather about people interacting with people through computers. This is the nature of the social Web. Social news websites, message boards, social networks, online stores and blogs all have some sort of user interaction going on, whether it’s comments on a blog post or social games on Facebook. In essence, we control the flow of user interaction on our websites. “Small software implementation details result in big differences in the way the community develops, behaves and feels.” — Joel Spolsky, More Joel on Software In this article, we’ll demonstrate the power of social interface design and what it can do for you, using several practical examples.
14,871 free fonts for Windows and Mac Sammelkarte: Brody Plakatklassiker Sammelkarte: Brody Plakatklassiker Für den Box-Weltmeisterschaftskampf Mike Tyson gegen Tony Tubbs gestaltete Neville Brody 1988 ein bemerkenswertes Plakat. Es wurde nicht verwendet, trotzdem ist es der Nachwelt besser in Erinnerung als der Wettkampf selbst. Tyson/Tubbs zählt zu Brodys großen Klassikern, weil es den Grundstock für 10 Schriften enthielt. Weiterlesen ... Als Neville Brody das typografische Poster 1988 zeichnete, standen ihm keine kompletten Schriften zur Verfügung. Dieser Brody-Plakatklassiker aus dem Jahr 1988 enthielt den Grundstein für zehn Schriften, die 1993 digitalisiert herauskamen (© FSI FontShop International) Der Ausdruck »World Heavyweight Championship« beispielsweise basierte nicht auf einem Konstruktionsprinzip sondern auf dreien, was sich am Großbuchstaben O recht gut erkennen lässt: sein Innenraum ist rechteckig, die äußere Kontur konnte jedoch drei Formen aufweisen: oval, Rechteckig mit abgerundeten Ecken oder achteckig.
300+ High Quality And Most Popular Fonts For Designers To Discov We are always in search of great free resources for our valued readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers. Today, we list down 300+ High Quality and Most Popular Fonts for Designers to Discover In 2009, We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible. If you don’t want to miss out our next posts, you can Subscribe to the 2Experts Design Blog or follow us on twitter 30 high-quality free fonts for great designs 22 Most Used Free Fonts By Professional Designers 40 Free High Quality Hand-drawn Fonts The Top 100 Best Fonts Of All Time 45 Outstanding Free Vintage Fonts 45+ Most Wanted Beautiful Free Hand Drawn Fonts [postadsense] 15 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts 30 Extremely Elegant Serif Fonts 20 Creative and Unique Typefaces Beautiful New Free Fonts For Your Designs 40 Free Unique Cartoon and Comic Fonts 32 Trashy And Distorted Fonts For Your Next Grungy Design