Font & Design related Resources for Professional Designers

Abduzeedo’s Typography Mania 22

admin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:01:58 +0000

Great guys at Abduzeedo are gathering a series of great typography art for your inspiration every Wednesday. We are amazed each time they release new “Typography Mania” article, you guys are doing an awesome job at promoting great typography work.
Make sure to click on each image to go to original location where you can check out more work from each artist and designer.

Incredible Typography work

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:24:48 +0000

Eika Dopludo is an illustrator and artist from Saint Petersburg, Russia. She runs a collective called Dopludo and they have a cool portfolio with works from toy design, drawings, graphic design and typography, which was what really caught my attention, especially the Life in the Alphabet work.

Awesome Typography Inspiration

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:06:37 +0000

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography work on the web, from videos to images everything is full of great design and inspiration. Check out this weeks Typography Mania #4 and comeback in 7 days for more inspiration.

Beautiful Type Illustrations

admin — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:16:00 +0000

Nicolas Alexander is a French Canadian graphic designer very passionate about type and motion graphics. In his portfolio we can see some amazing type illustrations with a very retro feel. Nicolas has an online portfolio at http://goodmorningstranger.com/ and we highly recommend that you check it out.

I am a French Canadian Graphic Designer working for MuchMusic in Toronto. I also do freelance projects in motion graphics and type illustrations

20+ Quality Free Sans Serif Fonts

admin — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:52:34 +0000

As we all know, you can never get enough good quality fonts. The keyword there being quality While it is hard to find real quality in the sea of free fonts, there are a lot of very talented designers creating some very cool fonts. Here’s a list of 20+ that I’ve recently enjoyed.

While all of these fonts are free, make sure to check the homepage for more info.

Real Fonts on the Web

admin — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:41:39 +0000

“To understand issues surrounding web fonts from the type designer’s perspective, we interviewed David Berlow, co-founder of The Font Bureau, Inc., and the ﬁrst TrueType type designer. The Font Bureau has developed more than 300 new and revised type designs for The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Hewlett Packard and others, with OEM work for Apple and Microsoft. The Font Bureau Retail Library consists largely of original designs and now includes over 500 typefaces.” –Ed.

15 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts

admin — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:08:12 +0000

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 Junction, Nadia Serif, Nilland, CartoGothic Std, Bergamo Std, Comic Serif, Birra Stout, Vegur 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.

We love typography

admin — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:38:56 +0000

Meet WLT — welovetypography.com, a collaboration between John Boardley and Kari Pätilä. You can learn more about the site on its about page, and more about its contributors on the, um, contributors page. They’ve been busy bookmarking some 1000 images and videos!

To share, just add #WLT to your tweet, and see what others are saying. Enjoy!

Our Favorite Typefaces of 2008

admin — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:33:26 +0000

It’s said that when launching a new ship, it’s bad luck if the ceremonial bottle of champagne doesn’t break. Well, if the ship in question is Typographica’s long-awaited redesign, then there is no need to worry, because this list — the site’s fifth annual accounting of the best in new typeface design — represents the proverbial bottle being blasted into oblivion, showering all onlookers with a selection of amazing typefaces (cue fireworks).

75+ Excellent Professional Free Fonts

admin — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:24:51 +0000

In this article tripwire magazine presents an overview of more than 75 excellent free fonts you should consider using for your designs. Not all free Fonts are worth using but the Fonts listed in this article have all been picked out because they are better than the rest.

The importance of typography in design can’t be underestimated. The right choice of fonts can really help to deliver the message in a more direct and suitable way. In this article some of the very best Free Font available are just a click away!