20 Professional Headline Fresh and Free Fonts

For your content to make an impact with readers, whether that be web or print, you do need to have a title that is not only descriptive and attention grabbing but also designed clearly and legible. Choosing that font can be a very difficult task. You could search through the multitude of free font directories, and scan through their thousands upon thousands of fonts. But, the most of the fonts…

Kinetic Typography: Design in Motion

As a graphic design blogger, I subscribe to Google Alerts for such terms as “typography”, and practically daily, a post pops up containing “kinetic typography” in the headline. Is this a new trend? Kinetic typography is defined by Wikipedia as “an animation technique mixing motion and text”. Designers will either use software such as Adobe Flash, After Effects or Apple Motion to produce this flawless and at time hypnotic typography…

A Quick Look into Black and White Typography

Black-and-white typography was the first featured in printed books. It’s been around since ancient times, and everybody has seen some example of it first hand at some point. Why, especially in a world where we can print letters in any colors imaginable, does black and white typography still captivate us so much?

30 Beautifully Colorful Typographic Book Cover Designs

Typography is one of the most useful and important tools in the graphic design toolbox. It is even more interesting when it is applied to the very source of words, ie. Books. In this article we have a collection of typography based book cover designs. With this collection we hope to inspire and demonstrate how important and creative typography can be. To make it easier and more interesting for your…

50 Beautifully Designed Posters with Amazing Typography

This article focuses on the use of typography to create “impact” and “drama” when designing posters. Poster design almost certainly requires text to be effective, this text will often include key information – dates, names, locations, times. It follows that typography can be an extremely useful (and critical) tool in poster design. Below are 50 posters that rely heavily on typography or use typography creatively. The graphic designers have used…

A Quick Look Into Evocative Typography: Trends and Examples

Evoking emotion in your viewers can be hard, but typography gives you the advantage of words. Unlike plain old drawings, you can use words or sentences to give the viewer more than just a feeling. You can make statements that explain or hint at something, leaving the viewer thinking. Here are some trends and examples that you should keep in mind when you want to make evocative typography. Setting the…

18 Super Quick Web Typography Tips for Newbies

Typography always seems to be an underrated topic when it comes to web designing. In a world where your website becomes your identity, you could either choose to be the elegant, educated prince or the ignorant pauper. And yes, typography can make that difference. The design and the readability of your website is completely dependent on good practice typography. For those newbies to web design, typography predominantly has to do…

The Classification of Fonts

The classification of fonts is still unclear, even with the various classes and categories that have been created by some of great type lovers of the years. Some may consider categorizing fonts separately, others may think of it is a common division… I honestly believe that this debate will go on forever. The classification is not what is the most important aspect, the way designers work with each individual and…

Typography as Art

Typography is one of the cornerstones of good graphic design. Selecting and manipulating typefaces is an art unto itself. Therefore it’s no surprise that classic typography regularly makes its way into famous paintings and sculptures. Below are some inspirational images of typography used in the fine arts to help give you a fresh point of view on typographic possibilities in future projects. (All images are copyright of the artists.) Sometimes…

Free Creative and Professional CSS3 CV/Resume Template

Earlier this month we published an article on the best HTML & CSS CV and Resume templates, and today we feel we can top all of those templates with one of our own. Today we have the pleasure of releasing free to our readers a resume template that is choc-full of CSS3 properties, smooth jQuery powered navigation (for jumping between the sections) and finally, it makes use of Googles new…

Five Alternative Methods for Typography Inspiration

Typography is the Jan Brady of graphic design – it doesn’t generate the rabid excitement of color nor cooing over flashy images. But typography can’t be ignored – in its basic form it’s what spells out a message, in its true and full form it can be used for optimum readability, impact, or even an artistic statement. Its this full form that elevates it to an art-form. The design community…

Falling Off the Wall Text Effect – Photoshop Tutorial

At some time or another we have all seen it – neighborhood walls with old and deprecated graffiti or, just as common, you may have seen some flyers or posters that have been stuck for so long on these walls that they start to peel and hang on by their edges. It is this effect that is recreated in this tutorial. Rather than use typical graffiti or a common poster this tutorial opted to combine the two, and have old and peeling posterized letters graffiti slowly peeling and falling from the wall.

45 Creative Examples of Typography in the Wild

For many ‘designers’ today, the ‘art of typography’ consists of picking a typeface – and, maybe if the audience is lucky, experimenting with leading, tracking, and kerning.
That’s not to say that there aren’t many extremely talented designers working with type today. Typography is, of course, an intricate art-form.

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