Fonts are Having a Field Day: 2016’s Best So Far
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See which ones the top voices in the industry are choosing as their favorites, as typography blossoms in creative ways. Is it just us, or has 2016 been a banner year for new fonts? In May we covered some rising...
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8 Fonts that Changed the World
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Hyperbolic? Not when you realize the incredible impact these font families have had on the history of graphic design. Can a typeface change the world? According to this sponsored post in Country Life, they have, beginning more than 2,000 years...
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Can Fonts Get Any Hotter?
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Type is hot, and it’s going mainstream. Here’s what to know about today’s font industry. “Type is hot,” states Lucia Moses in Digiday. “Fonts are a booming business, as evidenced by a rise in font studios, independent designers and demand...
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How Fonts Used to Advertise
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A fascinating look at how typefaces were marketed before the digital age. “Before there was Typekit, before there was Fonts.com, DaFont or Google Fonts, designers had to share their typefaces the old-fashioned way—via print advertisements,” writes Callie Budrick in PrintMag....
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Wish We Were There: What Fonts Did for This Travel Mag
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Sugar sand beaches, palm trees with the requisite hammock swinging between them, adorable fruit drinks served under a tiki-thatched swim-up bar – a lot of travel journalism leaves us longing for something more, something we haven’t seen before. Fortunately for...
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Meet Unica, the Urban Legend of Fonts
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It was a perfect example of the right thing at the wrong time. Back in the ‘70s the Swiss type foundry that created Helvetica set about making a follow-up font that would translate to phototypesetting and fix some of Helvetica’s...
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For the Font Geeks: The 100 Best Free Fonts
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[responsive][/responsive]Who doesn’t love free stuff? And what designer doesn’t love to browse through new fonts? Well, it’s Friday, and time to relax a bit. Unleash your inner font geek and dive into this article from the Creative Blog on the...
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12 Awesome (and FREE) Headline Fonts
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Designers, get ready to up your game with some new fonts for your headlines. “Choosing the right font for your headlines and titles is imperative to attracting your viewers’ attention,” note the folks behind Creative Bloq. “There's hundreds and thousands out...
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Newsletter Freeport Weeklylinks is a snapshot ofnews you can use Get our weekly e-newsletter with links to the latest articles covering the magazine and catalog industry. We invite magazine, catalog and direct mail professionals to join our community. Discover new insights...
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How to Design a Magazine Cover
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Nobody demonstrates the power of a well-designed cover better than the magazine industry.Magazines are admired for creating iconic, riveting, thought-provoking cover designs. Many have come to define an era or a cultural movement.How Do I Make a Good Magazine Cover?Magazine...
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