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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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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