Posts Tagged ‘typography’
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Serif Fonts and Their Peculiarities
Typography obviously belongs to the cohort of the fine arts, where even the smallest details and elements are meaningful and can influence the overall perception of the final creation, whether it is a picture or a text, printed with a particular typeface. In terms of fonts design, serifs are those tiny elements, which add a [...]
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50 Stunning Typography Wallpapers For Inspiration
Typography is said to be the backbone of web design, but it’s also considered art all by itself. And, let’s face it, most designers are obsessed with it. No surprise then that in the right hands it can be very powerful. Whether it’s to improve the looks of a website or as a way to express ideas, typography is always there to help you out.
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10 Free Beautiful Calligraphic Fonts
By Paul Viluda The word “calligraphy” is derived from two Greek words, denoting “beautiful writing”. Calligraphy or the art of writing has thousands of years in its history and development, and indeed calligraphy fonts, which we often use these days on our PCs to create a postcard or a wedding invitation card, are absolutely about [...]
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Gorgeous Typography Examples in Advertising Design
Typography, the art of arranging type, type design and modifying type glyphs, is often considered as a major part of promotional material and marketing. If you use typography properly, you can not meaningfully convey the message, but also strengthen the brand of your company. Typography has always been very inspiring and nowadays many artists experiment [...]
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Showcase of Beautiful Typography in Web Design
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 [...]
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Calligraphy and Handwriting Showcase
By Steven Snell High-quality calligraphy can be an excellent source of inspiration for graphic designers. Those who are skilled with creativity are able to create beautiful and impressive results, such as the ones you will see below. In this post we will feature more than 40 excellent examples of calligraphy. This showcase includes pieces that [...]
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Web Typography: Font Embedding Services
There are a lot of options out there for using other-than-websafe fonts in your website designs. Dynamic text replacement methods or resorting to very long fontstacks (where most of your visitors won’t see the font you wanted anyway) have long been the standard for using anything other than websafe fonts. But the @font-face function changes [...]
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45 Outstanding Free Vintage Fonts
In his famous 1908 essay, ‘Ornament and Crime,’ modern architect Adolf Loos wrote: “The evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects.” This pronouncement banished many of the frilly, decorative fonts of centuries past from the realm of High Design. Fast forward to the present day: Web 3.0 is awash in [...]
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7 Rules for Mixing Multiple Fonts in Good Web Design
Typography can be one of the most creatively rewarding parts of web design, but it can also be one of the most frustrating. Working with just one or two fonts can be challenging enough for most web designers, yet some still insist on using three, four, seven, or even more fonts in their designs. Some [...]
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sIFR Your Way to Better Headlines
Typography can make or break any design piece across all realms of media: print, web, motion graphics, etc… Veteran designs will tell you that the devil is in the details with typography: kerning (the space between the letters), leading (the space between the lines), font weights, font sizes, small caps all of these working in [...]
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