Color On — The 51 Best Color Sites for Designers
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A big thank you to PrintMag’s Jude Stewart for this list of the 51 Best Color Sites for Designers.  Stewart’s list kicks off with Color Hunt, a site that offers “a curated collection of color schemes for any purpose” in...
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AIGA Launches a Print Magazine and Answers the Big Question — Why?
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If you follow this blog at all, you know we are pretty big fans of the folks at AIGA, the professional association for design. We often share or cite their Eye on Design blog, which offers interesting and insightful online...
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Structure Meets Creativity in This Week’s Free Friday Fonts
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This week, our font choices demonstrate how focusing on balance and structure leaves room for tons of creative expression on all channels. You might think a typeface can’t be all about balance and structure and still embody tremendous personality. This...
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New Blooms for Your Font Garden this Week
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It’s Friday, it’s the first week of March, and we are feeling spring in the air. Check out this week’s free fonts and see what starts to bloom in your designs. Our first pick this week is Alegreya Sans from...
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Two Fonts from France to Conquer the Boring Typeface Blues
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This week we look to France for inspiration for our Friday Free Fonts. The first is AW Conqueror Sans Light, designed by France’s Jean François Porchez, a pioneer in digital typography. His AW Conqueror series of fonts includes nine freebies. ...
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Designing the Typeface for England’s World Cup Kit
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Talk about a dream gig – UK font designer Craig Ward was asked to design the font kit for England’s football team when they play in the World Cup in Russia later this year. “I was contacted in the first...
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Opposites are Highly Attractive in this Week’s Free Fonts
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Call them the yin and yang in our free font giveaway; this week’s selection takes an extreme look at each side of the weight spectrum. They’re about as different as night and day, and they are both really beautiful in...
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This Week, a Tale of Two Uppercase Fonts
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This week, it’s a tale of two fonts that stand tall and command attention. First up is Kel by Keine Martins, a Brazilian designer and art director. It’s a clean, uppercase sans serif with unusual edge styling that takes a...
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This Week’s Free Friday Fonts Were Made to Go Large
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Enjoy these two typefaces that aren’t afraid to go big … yet are still at home scaled way down. Need striking visuals at a large scale? Try Planer Regular, designed by the folks at The Northern Block. This modern sans...
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Qontra Hapna with You? This Week’s Free Friday Fonts go European.
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This week we go across the pond for our Free Friday Fonts, visiting the works of designers in Eastern Europe and the UK.First up is Qontra by Slovenian graphic designer Tomaz Hrastar. This condensed sans serif font has low contrast,...
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