Slightly shabby with a lot of chic charm, this font would be right at home in any posh setting. Most weeks on Free Font Friday we offer two fonts for you to download and add to your toolkit. But this...

When font names make us think of songs from the ‘80s, you know they’ll be making an appearance on Free Font Friday. This week, we start with Norwester from designer Jamie Wilson, who claims to “question everything.” We don’t question...

Sometimes you need to go big.  In the design world, it’s not simply a matter of upping the font size. To really have the impact and design clout you want in your large-scale projects, choose fonts that were designed specifically...

Finding the right font for a project is always a creative challenge. Then once in a while, you find a find and just know you have to find a way to use. That’s what I felt when I saw both...

To each his own.  “Every design project is unique and requires a typeface that matches the visual aesthetics and compliments the content,” notes this post from Digital Synopsis. “However, there are some typefaces that designers try to steer clear of,...

Grab your Chucks and get your vintage gear on; this week’s fonts will take you back.Last week we brought you a couple of fancy fonts; this week we’re taking things down to street level, with a vintage sports gear feel.Get...

Part of the fun of working in design in the range of styles and occasions we get to create for. And sometimes, you just have to put on your fancy duds and dress up. When that time comes, consider Niconne...

There are a million ways to use fonts in our multi-channel world. But when it comes to news – when you need to get the message across clearly and legibly – it’s best to use a font designed specifically for...

Teeny tiny.  That’s the basic idea behind designing for today’s smartphone apps. So it makes sense that font designers are creating new solutions, like Rhodium Libre by James Puckett, founder of Dunwich Type. This slab serif font has wide, open...

Back in 2014, designer Ben Whitmore saw a problem. “Of the hundreds of thousands of free fonts on the web, only a tiny handful are ‘text’ fonts suitable for plain text,” he explained in a blog post. “Some of these...