Let’s Get Medieval with this Week’s Free Font
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Here’s another great font, this week from the folks at The Font Squirrel. According to their site, “Junicode font is designed to meet the needs of medieval scholars; however, it has a large enough character set to be useful to...
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Another Free #Font Friday…!
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“There is something about letters, of all shapes and forms, that has always gotten my attention, even from a young age,” writes Nicky Laatz on her MyFonts profile. “I remember at about 10 years old having a little novelty rubber...
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It’s Another Free Font Friday!
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It’s Friday, it’s February, and we’re continuing to share the free font goodness this month. This week’s fonts come courtesy of Larsenwork design. “A minimal, narrow and yet friendly typeface,” is how her site describes Larsen’ Gidole font. “Gidole is an open...
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It’s Font Friday! It’s Free! You Feeling It?
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Fonts are amazing; we talk about them all the time. And free fonts? So good. So we are super happy to share Mosk, this free font family from an amazing designer, Iulian Maftei, on Behance. Called a noble, clean and...
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More Great Typefaces for Font Friday
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We keep a pretty close eye on typefaces around here and usually report the good finds to our readers. So I was a little surprised that these gems snuck by us somehow. “As we gear up for Print’s Typography & Lettering Awards,...
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5 Key Factors in Exceptional Cover Design
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It all starts with a good idea. That’s the key to creating a cover design that has serious newsstand chops, according to Luke O’Neill in Creative Bloq. “Designing a successful magazine cover is tricky at the best of times but...
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Do Designers Have a Moral Mandate?
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Technology has, among other things, paved the way for mediocre design. One of the hallmarks of the digital age is the elimination of barriers; once those walls are down, anyone with a laptop can get in. At the same time,...
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Need: 25 Top Design Books of 2016
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One of the great things about this time of year is all the “best of” lists and compilations. Around here, we are suckers for the best magazines, best fonts and best covers. Today, we’ve got another great list: The Best...
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Can Artificial Intelligence Be Trained to Evaluate Art?
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The publishers of EyeEm Vision turned to a computer to curate an issue of their print magazine. The results are stunning. Earlier this fall a hot topic making the rounds was “Can algorithms replace human editors?” Discussions were prompted by...
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Chronical Hairline is One Gorgeous Font
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As brand storytelling becomes mainstream, type designers are delivering up fonts that fit the bill beautifully. The fashion industry has long recognized the power of a good font, starting with Harper’s Bazaar and its use of distinctive typefaces early in...
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