April 1, 2011
I have always been intrigued by how thick and thin lines, angles and shapes can come together and form beautiful fonts. Just a shift of pressure on a stroke and you can get something entirely new. That’s the magic of typography.
Typography is art in its truest sense, and the web has certainly made it more mainstream. Choosing the right fonts and a theme to go with it are joined at the hip when it comes to web design. The right combination gives us a web design that spells ‘wow’.
November 3, 2010
It’s been mentioned before but it’s worth repeating: if you don’t want your websites/blogs to be just another face in the crowd, you have to make it stand out from the others, and playing with the design is one way to achieve that. But every web designer knows too well that typography is one area [...]
September 15, 2010
If you’ve ever peeked into your font directory, you might have noticed that there’s a small group of fonts called “Web-safe”. As the name suggests, these are the saved fonts that can be safely used as web elements. But looking at this group, we can’t help but wonder about the other side of the coin [...]
September 7, 2010
If there’s an award for the most important yet neglected element of every operating system, I think fonts would at least make it to the top three of the nominations. We run into and use them all the time, but most of us never really pay attention to them. We just accept the fonts as [...]
August 13, 2010
Take a look at the Character Map in Windows and tell me your best “˜font friends’ on it. Usually, it doesn’t go beyond the Arial font family, the Times New Roman font family, and a few neighbors like Comic Sans coming into your circle. But even then, are you pally with all the members of [...]
June 30, 2010
How many fonts do you have installed on your machine? And how many of them do you actually use? Looking through my list of fonts I see a lot of them that I downloaded to use on a specific project and then they just remained. Then there are the fonts that were installed with applications [...]
June 25, 2010
There is a new website called PilotHandwriting that allows you to create a font out of your own handwriting and send emails (or letters as they call them) with it. I will show you how it works and how to capture the text for use in your own images using a little bit of a [...]
June 20, 2010
You’ve all been there. You find a great font on an image in a webpage, and you’d love to use the same font for a project of your own but you have no idea which font you’re looking at. Karl recently showed you WhatFontIs which could help you but I’m going to show you another [...]
June 15, 2010
So you have seen a graphic online that is using an awesome font? Maybe you want to find out what that font is ““ or at least a free alternative to that font so you can use it yourself. For Whatfontis, all you need is an image of the font or the image’s URL to [...]
February 3, 2009
I’m a typography fanatic so naturally, I’m deeply invested in searching and experimenting with all kinds of different type styles and fonts. To this extent, I’ve also tried my hand at creating my own fonts and I have to say that anyone with a little know-how can do it. So how to make a text [...]
