Fun With Fonts: Type:Rider Is A Beautiful Puzzle-Platform Game On Typography
"Which tab do I click on to get different font styles?" Steve Jobs asks, turning to look at his team.
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.
2 Ways To Turn Text Into Beautiful Images You Can Share [iOS & Android]
Although I don’t actually own an active Instagram account, I love taking and sharing photos. When I finally get a phone that can run Instagram and other such apps, be sure I’ll be enjoying what this platform has to offer. Whether you like photography or not, there’s something about snapping and sharing beautiful images that’s appealing to almost anyone – a fact that helps make image-sharing apps like Instagram and Pinterest so incredibly popular.
Quipio: Typography Meets Photography [iOS]
There are several free apps available for adding text to images using your iPhone, but one of the first apps to offer this feature rolled into a social network is Quipio. The free iOS app makes it easy to add text to images, create messages using typography, and interact with other users sharing their thoughts and images through the app. No design skills whatsoever are required to use Quipio.
Beautiful Motion Graphics & Typography Comes To Life On Vimeo [Stuff to Watch]
Tight typography and swish motion graphics can't be learned overnight; it's a skill that takes years to master. Sophisticated software and video editing techniques are not the instant talent that many mistakenly believe they are, and so true masters of the art should be celebrated much in the same way animators, artists and filmmakers are. When it comes to this sort of content there's no question that Vimeo is where it's at.
Love Typography? Then You’ll Love WP Clock Live Wallpaper For Android
If you’re looking for a quick way to end up with a beautiful all-text homescreen, you should check out WP Clock Live Wallpaper. It’s not as customizable, but it’s simple, has over a million installs, and boasts an impressive 4.3-star average out of over 23,000 user reviews – so it must be getting something right.
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.
Use Embiggen's Large Font For Android So You No Longer Have To Shout
Remember that iPhone app called Say Anything? It basically lets you write anything in a huge typeface across your device's screen, so you can just wave your phone around the bar instead of trying to shout and be heard about the din. Well, if you've got an Android device, you're not out in the cold! Just install Embiggenand you can enjoy the same sort of cutting-edge in-your-face typography action.
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.
10 Cool & Interesting Web Applications On Fonts & Typography
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’.