Can a Free Font Really Kick You In the Chest? 
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We don’t know about that, but this week’s pick will certainly add a punch to your design toolbox. Bold, classic and spare.  That’s the overriding characteristics of this week’s first free font, League Spartan. Designed by The League of Moveable...
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Designing a Magazine Like it’s “The Last One on Earth”
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“We treat every issue as if it’s the last magazine on earth,” says New York Times Magazine Design Director Gail Bichler. “I love that to describe what we do.”According to Sara Dawood in Design Week, Bichler was speaking recently at...
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Fontspring Tools Helps ID Those Obscure Fonts 
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You see it, you love … and you have no idea what the name of that font is.  If you do any amount of designing at all, you’ve likely run across this problem. Well, problem solved, according to the folks...
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Removing “Tofu” from the Web with this week’s Free Friday Fonts
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It’s time to make “tofu” obsolete. And we don’t mean the kind you might have in your fridge. “When text is rendered by a computer, sometimes there will be characters in the text that can not be displayed because no...
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Two Big Names Unveil their New Magazine Designs This Month
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When your brand look is as iconic as National Geographic’s, you tread with care when it comes time to redesign your flagship print magazine. That yellow rectangle, after all, is arguably one of the most recognizable brand marks in the...
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Make a Big Impact with This Week’s Free Fonts
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If you’re looking for a font that makes an inviting impact without being too bold, try Rubik.  The sans serif font from Hubert & Fischer features a sturdy but soft design with rounded corners and comes in five weights plus...
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Why This Week’s Free Font Looks so Familiar
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In type design, it’s all about the nuance, the little differences that set the tone and feel for a font family. This week, our two free font choices are great examples of how subtle changes can make a big impact....
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Feel the Flair with this Week’s Free Fonts
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Some like it curvy; some play it straight. Whatever your design needs, our two picks this week will be solid additions to your type toolkit.Let’s start with Sansita from the folks at Omnibus-Type Foundry in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This curvy,...
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A New Way to Look at Sans Fonts this Friday
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Sans serif is a staple of the design world, especially useful when creating for digital screens and large display uses. But losing the serif does not mean you have to sacrifice style. This week, we bring you two sans-serif fonts...
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Helvetica, Only Not – One of This Week’s Free Fonts 
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When your design project is text-heavy, it’s tempting to go with tried and true Helvetica. But really, we’ve seen it so often it might be nice to mix things up a bit. Try Aileron by Sora Sagano, a Japanese artist...
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