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- November 20, 2011
Useful Web Typography Tools
Typographic art has become a movement on the web. We appreciate the efforts of designers who come up with great typographic techniques and tools and share their knowledge with fellow designers. Now it’s time to present a beautiful fresh dose of web typography-related tools.
Below is a collection of excellent typography-related tools, with most being geared toward helping you work with CSS typography.
- November 7, 2011
Fun with CSS3 Transitions – Create Super Cool Text Effect using CSS3 and Lettering.js
When I saw that simple but yet amazing effect, when you hover over title in “Unitasking” post by Trent Walton, I was immediately in love.
So, in this post we will see how to achieve that effect with a little help of lettering.js and css3 transition property. - October 20, 2011
Superb Examples of Capital Letters Use in Web Design
There is a time and a place to use capital letters in a website design and often, it could actually add “wow” effect to your website. On the other side, if you use them in the wrong place, it can be a complete disaster.
Here are a few great uses of capital letters in a web design. - September 7, 2011
35 Fabulous Fresh Free Fonts
Each of us often need a new shape, thickness or appearance of the font to make our projects look modern, fresh and different. That is why almost every designer always looking for good, nice and effective font that will make the design better and more eye-catching.
A simple and sufficient reason for presentation of 35 new free fonts. Take your pick, be creative and make your work even better and more beautiful.
- August 1, 2011
Top 10 Newspaper Headline Fonts
Headlines have held important status throughout history because of their “vocal” power, time-period characteristics and of course, readability to a wide variety of viewers. Some are synonymous with a particular event such as World War II while others go for an even more vintage appeal, echoing the Revolution or the Renaissance.
Here is a look at the coolest and most useful fonts from a variety of different headlines. - July 12, 2011
20 Free Fonts Just Perfect for Retro and Vintage Designs
Awww, vintage and retro style designes are simply awesome. By using various design elements such as textures, patterns and brushes to add an aged or used appearance designers can easily pull of timeless look. To compliment retro/vintage appearance it’s also important to use proper typography from the time period you are trying to represent.
To help you out, I’ve rounded up 20 perfect retro and vintage fonts to use in your designs.
