Type Tips
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Typography Basics
Refresh yourself with the terminology and fundamentals required for sound typesetting.
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Typography Tutorials
Step-by-step methods for getting the most out of your fonts and graphic design software.
World Cup Typography: Yomar Augusto
Brazilian type designer Yomar Augusto designed Unity, a custom typeface for Adidas for the World Cup 2010.
Read moreAn Introduction to Free Fonts
This first in a series of articles on free fonts defines some basics.
Read moreUpcoming Typography Basics On The FontFeed
Short announcement for the TYPO Berlin week and the upcoming Typography Basics.
Read moreSo You Need A Typeface? Try Julian Hansen’s Font Flowchart
“So You Need A Typeface” is an alternative way of choosing fonts (or simply find inspiration) for a specific project, not just by browsing through the pages of FontBook.
Read moreTutorial: Glowing letters
Use this Photoshop technique to create electric glowing type sprinkled with pixie dust.
Read moreFrench Anti-Piracy Organisation Hadopi Uses Pirated Font In Own Logo
This is the epic FAIL story of the agency in charge of enforcing France’s new anti-piracy legislation using a pirated proprietary font in its very own logo.
Read moreFontCast #7 — Dyana Weissman on Kerning
Dyana of The Font Bureau explains the difference between kerning and spacing, why it should be done by hand, and the mystical concept of flow.
Read moreJonathan Hoefler & Steven Heller On “Please Explain: Typography”
Jonathan Hoefler and Steven Heller explain on The Leonard Lopate Show how typefaces are created and why typography is important to communication and design.
Read moreRelated Posts
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- British type designer Paul Barnes designed Crepello and Olembe, two custom typefaces for Puma for the World Cup 2010. var addthis_config…Read more
- I AMsterdam in Avenir
- Photo by Mieke Tacken. See more photos of I amsterdam on Flickr. As much as I’d like to claim we’re the…Read more
- Gustavo Ferreira Appointed Director Of InfraStruction At FontStruct
- FontShop has appointed Gustavo Ferreira as Product Manager for its recently awarded online free font-building tool FontStruct.…Read more
- Laserkraft 3D Explain Lyrics With Dingbats
- The music video for “Nein Mann” by German electro house project Laserkraft 3D features hand lettering and dingbats that visualise…Read more
- A Fried FontStruction
- The first ever edible FontStruction premiered at the “Typofreaks – different typography” workshop in Brazil.…Read more


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