Type Tips
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Typography Basics
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Typography Tutorials
Step-by-step methods for getting the most out of your fonts and graphic design software.
Tip: Using FF Headz
FF Headz is the first typeface by designer and illustrator Florian Zietz. The concept for FF Headz is similar to the effect found in some children’s books, where pages are split into sections that can be grouped in unusual and humorous combinations. For example, a crocodile head from one page might be paired with an [...]
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Fred Smeijers on Legibility
Fred Smeijers, the award-winning designer of FF Quadraat and fonts for OurType, and author of “Counterpunch,” describes the trouble with “legibility” — not just in achieving it as a goal, but describing it as a concept.
Read moreElements of Web Typography
Robert Bringhurst’s “The Elements of Typographic Style” is the undisputed bible of typography, but its instructions are limited to print design. Richard Rutter is filling that need with “The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web”. The new site will present Bringhurt’s principles one nugget at a time in a manner relevant to web [...]
Read moreErik Spiekermann’s Typo Tips
With the invention of “desktop publishing”, designers found themselves setting type on their computers for the first time. Until then, they had made type specifications for typesetters and left the job up to the professionals. As a result, you can still see classic inaccuracies in typesetting, even in top-quality printed matter. Here you will find [...]
Read moreTutorial: The Worn/Weathered/Stamped Look
There are quite a few quality stamped or distressed fonts available — Frankie and Frankie Dos, Roadkill, Battery Park, Hawksmoor, Chase, Coldharbour, Despatxada, FF Stamp Gothic, FF Confidential, FF Bull, Elephantmen to name but a few. Unfortunately ready-made stamp fonts present a number of drawbacks: repeating characters are identical (unless you have alternate glyphs), and [...]
Read moreTip: GIF Your Type Right
It would be great if we could use any font we wanted in designs for the web. But since we’re limited to what’s installed on everyone else’s machines, creating an image is the only way to make non-standard fonts viewable online. Here are a few tips for creating a web graphic in which type is [...]
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News
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Handpicked Typefaces
Whether they’re newly released, stalwart classics, or hidden gems, these typefaces deserve special mention.
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Type Tips
Improve your typography skills with these basic tips and advanced tutorials.
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Fonts in Use
Specimens are nice, but we love to catch a typeface in the wild, where it can truly show how it performs in the real world.
Improve your typography skills with these basic tips and advanced tutorials.
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