How To Make Windows Fonts Look Like Mac Fonts
Eye candy is not a Windows forte. Modern UI (aka Metro) brought improvements, but still lacks in one important area: fonts. We show you how you can get beautiful font smoothing on Windows.
How To Download Free Fonts & Manage Them In Windows
Fonts are the building blocks of digital aesthetics. Since Windows doesn't come with a font manager, we've looked at third-party alternatives.
Stay True To Type: 7 Quick Guides That Tell You All About Typography
Learning about typography isn't only for designers. It’s for anyone who deals with the written word. Head to these seven places for quick no-effort primer classes on fonts and typefaces.
Give Your Text Stunning Designs Easily With Notegraphy
Notegraphy makes it easy to create stylized snippets of text for yourself, or to share on social networks, and can also help you find interesting (and beautiful) snippets by others.
A Test Of Character: 10 Font Games That Prove Typography Can Be Fun
Playing around with typography can be fun. You will love these games if you like the sound of the quick brown fox who jumped over the lazy dog. Find out what we are talking about.
Spruce Up Your Website With These 12 Beautiful Google Web Fonts
Over the past decade, I've started a number of personal blogs that I never really followed through with, but some of my fondest memories rest on theme design and font tweaks. There’s something satisfying when you find that perfect match of fonts for your website and everything falls into place. Thankfully, with Google Web Fonts, that whole process has never been easier.
Quickly Install Google's Web Fonts On Your Linux Computer
Browse and install any of Google's fonts, quickly. TypeCatcher is a free Linux app that lets you easily explore a large collect of open source fonts, then instantly install them. You can check these fonts out online, and even download them, at Google Fonts, but TypeCatcher offers one-click installation to all Linux users. Here's how it works.
3 More Awesome Google Services That You Probably Never Knew Existed
Though it's where its fame and fortune first came from, Google has advanced far beyond just being the world's most popular search engine. You and I both know that Google plays host to many amazing services that we use on an everyday basis. Beyond their alerts system and floundering social network, Google has developed a wealth of web applications that just aren't given enough shine.
3 Applications To Supercharge The Character Map In Windows
When the Character Map becomes a staple of your work routine, you have two options: find some third-party application to more easily bring the characters to your fingertips, or memorize the Alt keystrokes for each character. Although I do know around 25 of those keystrokes off the top of my head, I'm going to show you three solutions to that first suggestion.
How To Get Mac & Windows Fonts in Ubuntu [Linux]
Whenever you're happily setting up your new Ubuntu system, one of the things you'll probably think about the least is getting the correct fonts installed. If you're a bit confused about why I mentioned fonts, it's because most distributions (or at least those who'd like to remain legal) only use free, or "libre", fonts. While there's absolutely nothing wrong with using these fonts, there will most likely be multiple cases where you'll be required to have certain fonts.
WhatFont: Find Out What Any Type Of Font Is On A Webpage [Cross-Platform]
Have you ever been on a website and wondered “What type of font is that?!” I have. And depending on your interests and area of focus, you may even do it more than the typical Internet user. You could spend hours searching for the font on your favorite search engine, or you could use WhatFont. WhatFont is a browser extension and bookmarklet that you can enable once you’re on the website with the font in question.
5 Typography Resources To Help With Your Designs
We all know that fonts are important, right? I mean, when there's a website bashing Comic Sans exclusively, we know it's obviously important enough for someone to care about font usage. However, what makes a good font? What goes into properly using a font? These are the questions that bother me when I'm trying to work on something that involves any element of design. Fortunately, I've found a few websites to consult when preparing to use fonts.
How To Make Text Easier To Read In Windows
Most of us spend hours reading on the computer every day, but our computers probably aren’t optimized for reading. The text on our monitors may not be sharp enough or may be too small, especially if we have high-resolution monitors. Websites usually aren’t optimized for reading long-form articles either – they’re cluttered with too many navigation elements, flashing advertisements, and often use text that’s too small.
Free Font Friday: Comic Sans, You Are Not Alone (With A Bonus Video!)
Comic Sans is one of the most notoriously abused typefaces, but it's been taking it like a champ, and just keeps on being its cheery, quirky self. Also, it's not the only comic font around – just the most famous one. So I've decided to dedicate this month's Free Font Friday to Comic Sans.
Free Font Friday: Two Shiny Fonts, A European Font, And A Font For Lovers Of Spotify
Welcome to the May edition of Free Font Friday! For this month’s edition, I’ve scoured the well-regarded Behance network showcasing works of art from all over the world, and unearthed five beautiful free fonts, each with its own story, and one with a video showing how beautiful it can be in the hands of a skilled designer.
Take Your Fonts Out On a Date To See If They Match With Type Connection
Whether or not you take an active interest in typography, I’m sure you’ve seen something like this before. A document whose writer (or, worse still, its designer) tried to be overly creative, and did some horrible font matching. I don’t just mean "used Comic Sans MS" (the perennial "awful font" everybody loves to hate), but even if the writer or designer used "sane" fonts, they don’t always go together.
Combat Chronic Comic Sans Font Misusage With These 3 Sites
It seems like wherever you are, there is always going to be some form of the printed word within your field of view. With so many words floating around, designers take great care to make their words stand out from the crowd through stylistic fonts. But then we have the Comic Sans users.
Manage & Compare Fonts Easily With Font Manager [Linux]
Browse and manage your Linux fonts using a simple GUI. Font manager is a single program that allows you to browse, compare, manage and even add fonts on your Linux system; a must-have tool for designers on any platform. Available in the repositories of most Linux distros, Font Manager can give you a quick look at your installed fonts and allows you install new ones quickly.
3 Ways To Temporarily Change A Website's Font If The Original Font Is Not Good Enough
How many times has someone sent you a link to a website infested with incredibly hard-to-read fonts? It's happened to all of us, and there's not much we can do about it - or is there? There are a few folks on the Internet who have experienced the same problem as you, and fortunately, they decided to do something about it.