Typography

Typography

Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type using a combination of fonts, font size, line length, leading (line spacing) and letter spacing. Typography is performed by typesetters, compositors... [more]

Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type using a combination of fonts, font size, line length, leading (line spacing) and letter spacing.

Typography is performed by typesetters, compositors, typographers, graphic artists, art directors, and clerical workers. Until the Digital Age typography was a specialized occupation. Digitization opened up typography to new generations of visual designers and lay users.

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Basics of Web Design

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Graphics 1. Think small, like 10-12KB per image. Yes, depending on the source, the number of broadband users is going up. But slow pages are still really annoying, even if you're on a T1. And huge images are a primary cause of slow pages. It's easy to optimize your images. 2. Always use graphics that fit the content. Just because you have an adorable photo of your dog doesn't mean you should have it on your Web site about Web Design (sorry, Shasta...). The main exception I would make to this is for "design" images. These are photos or graphics that help make up ... Read Full Story

Font Basics for Branding your Small Business

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Erin Ferree asked: There are many components of a brand identity: logo, color palette, font choice, and the Visual Vocabulary. There’s a lot of information available about the use of logos, colors, and Visual Vocabulary, but not much on the effective use of fonts. So, here’s some information on the creative, practical, and technical aspects of fonts. Font basics A font is a set of all the letters in the alphabet, designed with similar characteristics. This is also known as a typeface. Fonts are usually designed to include several style variations. This can include styles like light, regular, bold, semibold, ultra bold, and italic. ... Read Full Story

30 high-quality free fonts for professional designs

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Even though you’ll have to pay for the best fonts, like Helvetica or Univers, the web is full of quality fonts that are perfectly suitable for professional design work. The fonts are classified to make the page easier to scan. Sans-serif fonts 1. Miso 2. Quicksand 3. Com4t Fine Regular 4. Alte Haas Grotesk 5. Comfortaa 6. Museo Sans 7. 078MKSD Medium Condensed 8. Mayberry Pro Semi-Bold 9. SpecialK Semi-Serif fonts 10. Museo Semi-Serif 11. Gauntlet 12. Fertigo Pro 13. Inconsolata Serif fonts 14. Kontrapunkt 15. Goudy Bookletter 1911 16. Tallys 17. Justus 18. PetitLatin 19. Union 20. Day Roman 21. FF Reminga Bold ... Read Full Story

Rules of Typeface Design!

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The typeface and fonts you use in a design are often the most important decision you will make as a designer. In a previous post, we’ve already discussed the basic differences between Serif and Sans Serif fonts, in this article lets look at the 4 basic rules of selecting the perfect typography for your piece.   Rule 1: The Family Comes First. For continuity in a design, attempt to rely on a single font family. To avoid being backed into a corner, choose a family that has a variety of weights and faces. Rule 2: Use Diversity. While working within the family is the ... Read Full Story

10 Beautiful Japanese Fonts

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From:   nihongoup.com
Whether you are a designer working for Japanese clients or if you just want to impress your Japanese girlfriend (or boyfriend) with your Photoshop skills, you’ve certainly became bored with the very limited set of Japanese fonts that comes with your operating system. Here’s a collection of some of my favorite j-fonts categorized by shōtai : Minchō Mincho typeface, also known as Ming or Song , is the most used font style in print for Chinese and Japanese. It’s main characteristics are the presence of small serifs vertical stroke width (vertical strokes are generally narrower than horizontal strokes). TB Mincho ($100) is a great ... Read Full Story
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How to Make Beautiful Gradient Typography with Photoshop
How to Make Beautiful Gradient Typography with Photoshop. In this Photoshop type treatment tutorial for beginners, you'll discover a quick and easy process for making captivating gradient text. Be sure to check out the Gradient ...  
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esmi on "Blog and post title fonts"
You really need to start by sorting out some of the validation errors in your theme - especially in header.php where there's a whole block if HTML markup before the opening tag. Meanwhile your single post titles are being resized by bubblecast_comment which is inserting CSS resizing all links (including those used as post titles) to 12px. So you either need to get rid of bubblecast_comment or edit your theme's single.php template file and...  
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Choosing a Font Stack Order Can be Challenging
Once you've found the perfect font for your Web page, it can be hard to choose any others. But a good Web designer recognizes that not everyone has the font resources that we have on our computers. So font stacks are critical to make sure that the computer itself doesn't pick the font. More About Web Typography Font Stacks Web Typography Mistakes Learn how to Use Fonts with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Typography on the Web is About the...  
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There are quite a few faces
There are quite a few faces that have non-OpenType versions with both lining and oldstyle figures, in separate fonts—especially FontFonts. I’ve published a few typefaces, prior to OpenType, where the default is oldstyle figures e.g. Bodoni Egyptian, Paradigm, Preface. There are also many OpenType fonts that have oldstyle figures as the default.  
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