Picturing Unity, Picturing Resiliency in the Evening Standard
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The Evening Standard, the dominant local newspaper for London and the surrounding areas, has found one way to deal with recent horrific events in their city, from terror attacks to the horrible high-rise fire. “Six leading artists including Sir Antony...
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Two Friday Fonts, Geared Up for Good Design
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I don’t like to get all hyperbolic with our Free Font Fridays; after all, artistic tastes vary so widely that it’s rare we can say definitely that this is a best-ever choice. But this week, I can’t resist. We are...
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Great Band Name, or Awesome Font?
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Atletico Foglihten just might be the best band you never heard of…or not. We like fonts so much around here we get a little punchy about it. Take this week’s offerings, for example. You gotta admit both of these fonts...
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Tall, Skinny and Honest Free Fonts
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Inspired by playbills and advertisements of 1800s, Abraham Lincoln font by Frances MacLeod is a humanist display face font with sturdy serifs. Tall skinny, and honest, you can download it at Lost Type.This week’s second font is Serrific, an absolutely terrific...
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The Revolutionary Visualization of Data
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  Data – its future isn’t in volume, infallibility and predictive. The next wave of data intelligence, according to information designer Giorgia Lupi, will be smaller, imperfect and serendipitous. And it will be humanized for our understanding through visual design....
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Legibility and Versatility in this Week’s Free Fonts
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Lately, we’ve been sharing some amazing fonts that look great in graphic design, especially posters, covers and large works. This Friday, we’ve got two more free fonts for you, perfect for the editorial side of your design game.Created mainly for...
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Trysting the Night Away on Free Font Friday
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Can a typeface have split personalities? Any good font geek will tell you they sure can. But it’s not always obvious on first glance. Take Tryst, a transitional, highly readable serif font designed by Philatype. The way it’s been designed...
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DIY Templates the Rules of Design
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Visual content is a huge component of current marketing practices, and it’s spawned a wealth of templates and DIY options. This shift to “anyone can design” has its drawbacks, to be certain; nothing can really replace the solid skills and...
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Polly Want a Free Font?
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Looking for a good, clean and concise serif font for your web or print design challenges? These two free fonts deliver. Poly was designed by Nicolás Silva as his final project for the postgraduate certificate in typeface design from the...
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Feeling the Vibe on Free Font Friday
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Our two picks this week are worthy of a little swoon. Lovato Light, one of a family of five Latin-serif fonts, has a geometrical construction but it still reminds us of inscriptional lettering. It’s delicate, but with a certain commanding...
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