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An Introduction to Icon Fonts with Font Awesome and IcoMoon

September 15, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Icon fonts are all the rage nowadays, with more and more developers taking advantage of them in their designs. If you havenâ€™t yet looked into icon fonts, this article can get you started.Iâ€™ll demonstrate the great things we can achieve using icon fonts but first Iâ€™ll take a look at what icon fonts are and what are their pros and cons. Then, weâ€™ll examine two popular icon fonts and weâ€™ll see different examples showing how we can use them in our projects. What are Icon Fonts? Icon fonts are just fonts. However, instead of containing letters or numbers, they contain symbols and glyphs. You can style them with CSS in the same way you style regular text which has made them …

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Letter Fountain – A stunningly well-crafted bible…

June 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Letter Fountain – A stunningly well-crafted bible of typographyLetter Fountainby Joep PohlenTaschen2011

In one thick, magnificently printed volume we get a whole course on typography. The back of this 638-page book contains a roundup of the major font families and what makes them special with plenty of printed examples. The front of the book is the best orientation to the logic of fonts that I’ve seen. There may be better books about using the art of typography on a page, but this is the master on the subtleties and dynamics of different fonts. Watch how adding or subtracting serifs changes the emotion of the page. Why are some letters thinner or longer? This book’s knowledge…

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The Art Of Mixing Typefaces Google Fonts Edition

June 19, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Google Fonts contains hundreds of free, open-source fonts and although they’re primarily optimized for the web, they’re equally great for use in print projects. While many of the fonts aren’t the most visually attractive (honestly, you’d probably be better off using Comic Sans in some cases!), there are some absolute gems and in particular, some of the more popular additions are exceptionally well designed. When used correctly, these fonts can breathe a whole new lease of life into a previously dull and uninspiring project. For most designers, spotting a great font that is perfectly suited to a particular project is easily done; the difficulty lies in combining multiple typefaces that look great alongside each other. This can also be an extremely time-consuming process and …

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The inventor of Comic Sans tells the story behind the world’s most-hated font

June 9, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

The inventor of Comic Sans tells the story behind the world’s most-hated font.

Comic Sans, the font we all love to hate, has an interesting story, which was recently told by its very creator on stage of the most recent edition of the Boring conference. The legendary font made the rounds again a few months ago when graphic designer Craig Rozynski developed its doppelganger – Comic Neue. Comic Sans was created for a short-lived Windows interface called Microsoft Bob. It featured a cartoon dog character who spoke to computer users through speech bubbles. The words inside the speech bubble were rendered in Times New Roman, which didn’t look right to Connare (the font creator). He thought a cartoon dog should…

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The Adobe Originals Silver Anniversary Story: A typographic revolution begins

May 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

This is the first in a series of articles from Tamye Riggs, a longtime lover of type who is working with us to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Adobe Originals type program. This post sets the scene, taking us back to the very early days of digital typography. Typography is the art and technique of arranging type in order to make the language it forms most appealing to transparent learning and recognition. Excerpted from Wikipedia’s entry on Typography The history of typography is a long and storied affair. Since the eleventh-century invention of movable type in East Asia and the Gutenberg revolution in mid-fifteenth-century Europe, constant innovations have been made, with various methods of typesetting and printing falling in and …

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