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25 High Quality Free Fonts for Professional Design | tripwire magazine
This article will give you an overview of some high quality free fonts available for use in professional designs.
10 Incredible Sites to Improve Your Typography Skills | Web Design Ledger
I think most would agree that typography is a difficult skill to master. A few months ago, we showed you some tools and tutorials to improve your web typography. While these are very useful, tools are only half the battle. Having a strong foundation of typographic knowledge is crucial. In this post, there are 10 sites that will help you improve your type skills through learning about typography. I would suggest following all of them if possible.
50 Useful Tools and Generators for Easy CSS Development : Speckyboy Design Magazine
The tools have been sorteds into the following categories: Grid and Layout, CSS Optimisers, CSS Menus Tools, CSS Buttons, CSS Rounded Corners, CSS Frames, CSS Sprites, CSS Tables, CSS Typography and CSS Forms.
Firefox 3.5 and the potential of Web typography - Using fonts from the SERVER | CNET News
In addition to new features such as support for HTML 5, geo-location, and a noticeably faster engine, Firefox 3.5 added a new CSS rule that makes Web typography much more attractive.
@font-face is a CSS rule that allows Web designers to reference fonts not installed on end-user machines. Just as you would have a pointer to a server-based stylesheet or JavaScript file in your Web page code, you can now make reference to a hosted typeface.
Web Design Trend Showcase: Letterpress Text Effect
The trend that has become commonly known as ‘the letterpress effect’ has managed to make its way into a range of website designs. The effect itself is often added to text headers and buttons, giving an inset or debossed appearance. Take a look at this rou
30 Brilliant Typefaces For Corporate Design | Fonts | Smashing Magazine
Designing a beautiful, legible typeface is hard work and takes time and patience. The type family has to convey a message clearly and effectively, regardless of the setting in which it is used. Of course, thousands of freely available fonts are out there,
50+ Freebies Every Web Designer/Developer should have | Desizn Tech
In this article author is sharing some of the best freebies on web that he uses in his projects.
Fantastic Typography Blogs For Your Inspiration | Fonts | Smashing Magazine
Some say that web design without typography is like an orange without its peel, it just isn’t complete. Typography encompasses the reality of effective web design and achieves success in creating web page identity, eye-catching sites, and the enhancement
Top 100 Best, Cool, Most Popular Professional Fonts
in this particular German publication, the judges ranked the fonts by their objective and various other weighted measurements: * FontShop Sales Figures: 40% * Historical Value/Meaning: 30% * Aesthetic Qualities: 30% It is also worth noting t
CSS & Typography - Tips and Examples » DivitoDesign
The definition of typography is roughly said “the art of designing with fonts”. Typography is how fonts are used in a newspaper, a magazine, a website or book to give readers the content in a good-looking way. Did you ever look in a traditional type of m
The Paragraph & Typography Guide » DivitoDesign
Paragraphs are often overlooked when we talk about design or typography, we give our titles a lot more attention. While paragraphs are used to actually bring over the message. Why not give your message the look and feel your readers deserve? Let’s take a
18 Creative Examples of Typography & Paragraphs » DivitoDesign
some creative and good looking examples of sites that did work on their paragraphs. These examples with different colors, backgrounds, sizes and typefaces should give you some inspiration for your own site!
typeface.js -- Rendering text with Javascript, , and VML
With typeface.js you can embed custom fonts in your web pages so you don't have to render text to images. You can write in plain HTML and CSS, just as if your visitors had the font installed locally. This is a work in progress, but functional enough at le
Geek Meet: Web Typography and sIFR 3
Web typography and sIFR 3, a talk given on February 26 2009 during Geek Meet in Stockholm, Sweden.
An alternative to sIFR: Facelift Image Replacement FLIR
Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR, pronounced fleer) is an image replacement script that dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors. The generated image will be auto
45+ Most Wanted Beautiful Free Hand Drawn Fonts | Naldz Graphics
One of the trends in creating site designs right now are in Hand Drawn Concept. And talking about Hand Drawn Design, using a Hand Drawn Fonts is mostly a must to match the design. On this matter I list down 45+ Most Wanted Beautiful Free Hand Drawn Fonts.
Font Families & Web-safe Fonts: The Point of Penultimate Resort
the range of supposedly safe fonts available for web–design is limited to a handful, and they’re not really all that safe when considering the unix family of operating systems. For each major platform there are additional commonly occuring fonts, and the
Aspect values and x-widths for fonts
The aspect value of a font is the ratio between its x-height and font-size and can be used as an indicator of legibility, with larger aspect values tending to be more legible than lower ones, especially when viewed at small sizes. Conversely, fonts with s
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