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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.
Tutorial: Glowing letters
Use this Photoshop technique to create electric glowing type sprinkled with pixie dust.
Read moreTutorial: Festive Engraved Type
This tutorial shows how to create delicate shadow lines and shaded engraved type.
Read moreTutorial: Photorealistic Perspective
Sometimes, flat just doesn’t cut it, and we need to find other, more attractive ways to present designs to our customers. One technique I’ve been using recently works remarkably well for text, logos and other vector artwork. It consists of taking a virtual photograph of the work by combining Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop filters. The [...]
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 [...]
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- Tutorial: The Worn/Weathered/Stamped Look
- There are quite a few quality stamped or distressed fonts available — Frankie and Frankie Dos, Roadkill, Battery Park, Hawksmoor,…Read more
- Tutorial: Photorealistic Perspective
- Sometimes, flat just doesn’t cut it, and we need to find other, more attractive ways to present designs to our…Read more
- Google Image Search Shows Its True Colours
- Google Image Search offers an interesting new filter – Search by Colour, which allows to fine-tune your search results by…Read more
- Tutorial: Festive Engraved Type
- This tutorial shows how to create delicate shadow lines and shaded engraved type.…Read more
- Upcoming Typography Basics On The FontFeed
- Short announcement for the TYPO Berlin week and the upcoming Typography Basics.…Read more

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