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- June 2, 2011
18 Beautiful and Stylish Fonts
In this post we present a collection of beautifully styled new fonts that can be used for various purposes and needs. We hope that you will like these fonts, you will decorate your designs with them, and that will encourage your creativity and inspiration. Choose and enjoy!
- May 23, 2011
Websites with Beautiful Typography
Typography in web design plays an integral part in setting the tone, theme and message of a website. Font choice, letter-spacing (tracking), line height, foreground/background colors, size, style – all of these attributes must work together cohesively in order to produce harmonious typographic compositions, attractive design and also contributes to the readability and usability of the content.
For your visual inspiration, here are websites that caught our eye for their attention to typography and sophisticated use of web fonts from Typekit.
- May 2, 2011
Showcase of Beautiful Retro and Vintage Typography
Typography is literally everywhere – in advertising, product packaging, printed publications, graphic designs, and more. For decades this design tool has given rise to some truly elegant type that still have impressions echoing through design today.
In this article, we go retro again, but this time finding beautiful examples of vintage typography and the modern work they’ve inspired. Looking back, it’s easy to see why some of this type has stood the test of time and it’s huge inspiration for the design community today.
- March 15, 2011
Create Attractive Web Typography with CSS3 and Lettering.js
CSS has come a long way in recent years, and with new browser support for a hand full of CSS3 properties the possibilities are becoming more and more diverse!
In this tutorial, we’ll look at how to take basic markup and transform it into an attractive typographical design using only minimum images, pure CSS3 magic and we will spice things up with lettering.js – a jQuery plugin for radical Web Typography.
To make things a bit interesting and less boring, instead of just using meaningless placeholder text I will use text from Jules Verne’s “Moon-Voyage” book, chapter X. The Observers of the Moon. So, let’s get started. - February 28, 2011
Typography Tutorial: A Primer on Ligatures
A ligature is the joining together of one or more glyphs into one continuous glyph. This is commonly seen in continuous typesetting of book-length works. The typographic ligature has a vast and storied history, and today they can be used to lend an elegant or classic feel to type.
We’ll look at the history of ligatures, describe how to use them in various applications for the Mac, and we’ll end by looking at a few examples of typefaces with particularly beautiful ligatures.
- January 24, 2011
On Web Typography
Typography is the soul of design, it lies at the heart of visual literacy. In its essence, typography is a powerful medium that allows precise, effective communication. Typography is not only about choosing the best font family, but about bringing value to communication and making information better understood by the audience.
