This Week, Fonts with a Flourish
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This week’s font collections come from the wildly creative minds at Mikrojihad Inc. in Indonesia. They specialize in “unformal” typefaces with a hand-lettered feel, and the results are striking. One of our favorites is Blackfat Script, a bold font family...
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The Tactile Argument for Photography Zines
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One photographer explains why digital marketing for photographers leaves a huge gap to fill. Photographer James Moreton has thousands of followers on Instagram and other digital channels to help market his work. Yet he still believes that print is the...
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A Whole Extended Family of Free Fonts This Week
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What’s better than two free fonts? Two big font sets with plenty of in-laws. Source: Behance This week’s free fonts start with Butler, by Belgium designer Fabian De Smet. Inspired by the Bodani and Dala Floda font, the serif typeface...
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Two more Free Friday Fonts – Langdon & Roboto
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There’s just so much to love about this week’s font pair … including a fantastic Friday audio virus (read on). This week, we’re pairing Langdon & Roboto, two font families with decidedly bold looks. Langdon, available free from the good...
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This Week’s Free Fonts: Ostrich and Amble
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Inline fonts – typefaces that contain a narrow stroke inside the thicker font body – have been around for centuries in print. Lately they’ve become really popular for online design too, especially in flat design situations. I think almost everyone...
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5 Steps to Choosing the Perfect Fonts
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Still guessing and hoping? Try this approach for finding just the right type for your next project or branding assignment. Typography – it’s a crucial element to all good design. And it’s also a challenge for many of us to...
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ESPN’s Chin Wang Talks Magazine Design
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ESPN’s creative designer explains why every story meeting should have a visual person at the table. “I like designers who think like an editor.” That’s one of the creative philosophies that sets Chin Wang apart in the field of magazine...
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10 Photoshop Templates Every Designer Should Know About
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Big shout out today to Envato for providing this list of “10 Amazing Photoshop Templates that Every Designer Should Own.” “Photoshop templates are a great way of transforming your images instantly into something more eye-catching and professional-looking,” writes Grace Fussell...
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To the Fonts Robin!
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Pow! Wham! It’s Friday, and that means more free fonts. I love the way these two fonts complement each other. Pairing them up as partnering display and body copy fonts is like pairing Batman and Robin. One strong, one nimble...well, see...
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Why The California Sunday Magazine Gets Our Vote
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We talk a lot about good design around here, whether it’s striking advertising or stunning magazine covers. It’s an integral part of any publishing effort. So, of course, we had to share this great article about the design work behind...
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