Category Archive: Typography

Falling Off the Wall Text Effect – Photoshop Tutorial
March 4, 2010 - 8 Comments
Graphic Design, Photoshop, Tutorial, Typography

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
January 22, 2010 - 22 Comments
Graphic Design, Typography

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.

50 Examples of Effective Uses of Typography Within Web Design
November 4, 2009 - 49 Comments
Design Style Series, Inspiration, Popular, Typography, Web Design

Not only do we showcase typography in the classic sense, but also illustrate that the combination of web design and great typography can be used effectively, along with clever color selection, and create usable web sites thats base design is dominated by text, for either navigation, a good headline, a logo or even used for the entire content.

A Showcase of 35 Beautiful Typographical Illustrations
October 20, 2009 - 27 Comments
Illustrator, Inspiration, Showcase, Typography

Illustration and typography are not typically associated with each other, they each evoke a strong and separate visual statement in relation to there own style. Can this type (as a figure of speech) of illustration be regarded as illustration? Or, on the flip side, can the art of typography, mixed in with illustration be regarded as typography? If you are an illustrator or a typographer you will probably each have your own opinion. For us, its a match made in heaven. The combination of the two design styles creates something unique, it demonstrates that art has no boundaries, and ultimately will create something beautiful.

50 Essential Web Typography Tutorials, Tips, Guides and Best Practices
August 31, 2009 - 31 Comments
CSS, Tutorial, Typography

Web typography is the most undervalued and misunderstood aspect of web design. There are many reasons for this, probably, the most common factor is it is ignored purely for simplicity. Why over complicate something that works fine as it is? Web typography is all theories and opinions, that is the point. The evolution of web design relies on opinions and theories, otherwise we would be stuck with the repulsive web designs we had 10 years. So, yes, web typography is very important and you cannot afford to ignore it any more.

45 Stylish and Creative Typographical Desktop Wallpapers
June 29, 2009 - 51 Comments
Inspiration, Typography, Wallpaper

Maybe its just me, when you add type to wallpapers it seems to bring a certain level of sophistication and elegance to your desktop.
These beautifully designed wallpapers are not solely about typography, they cover a wide array of styles with elements of typography mixed in, the effect is impressive.

29 Cool and Creative Text Effects Photoshop Tutorials
June 22, 2009 - 19 Comments
Graphic Design, Photoshop, Tutorial, Typography

Graphic designers never cease to amaze me. Time and time again, they keep on coming up with new, original and creative text effects. Some of these typography effects tutorials are amazing, just have a look at the MEAT text effect, genius at work.

42 Amazing Resources for Inspirational Typography
May 5, 2009 - 55 Comments
Inspiration, Typography

There are many theories to what constitutes good typography, its not as simple as choosing an appropriate font and setting it in the style of a particular project, that would be too easy. Theories and tutorials are one thing, putting typography into perfect practice is another, and is perhaps the hardest part of any design. Every designer you ask will give you a different answer to what constitutes good type, where is the benchmark?

21 Typography and Font Web Apps You Can’t Live Without
January 12, 2009 - 42 Comments
Fonts, Typography, Web Apps

Don’t you just love typography, these apps are very useful for perfecting your typography skills.

The Top 30 Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials of 2008 – Which is the Best?
December 18, 2008 - 50 Comments
Inspiration, Logo, Photoshop, Popular, Tutorial, Typography

The Top 30 Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials of 2008 – Which is the Best?
You choose (vote at the bottom of the post).

25 Creative Typography Wallpapers for your Desktop
November 2, 2008 - 28 Comments
Typography, Wallpaper

25 Creative Typography Wallpapers for your desktop.
Don’t you just love type!

25 Examples of Amazingly Creative Typography Art
October 12, 2008 - 22 Comments
Inspiration, Showcase, Typography

25 Examples of Amazingly Creative Typography Art.
What is type/text art? It is art created solely by using letters and numbers.
It is really is an amazing art.

CSS Typography Reference Sheet – Get Creative with your Headlines!
October 6, 2008 - 27 Comments
Cheat Sheets, Popular, Typography

This Reference Sheet was created to emphasize the many options available within CSS, particularly for Typography.
So, what are you waiting for, get creative with your headlines!

6 Amazing Typography and Font PDF Magazines to Download
September 8, 2008 - 8 Comments
Fonts, Typography

6 Amazing Typography and Font PDF Magazines to Download

11 Amazing Tutorials combining Great Typography and Skillful Vector art.
August 20, 2008 - 11 Comments
Inspiration, Tutorial, Typography, Vector

11 Amazing tutorials with a combination of great Typography and skillful Vector art (a marriage made in heaven).

July 9, 2008 - 25 Comments
Fonts, Graphic Design, Typography

One of the hardest things in design is looking for that perfect font, that font you can see in your mind but can’t find. You end up browsing for hours on end trying to find it. If you are like me you will find this frustrating and tedious.
There are almost 100,000 free fonts withinin this [...]

June 15, 2008 - 24 Comments
Graphic Design, Showcase, Typography

All of the examples below are taken from paper magazine publications, there use of type and layout are phenomenal and there style could be easily adapted into any web page.
They make you wonder if web design is influencing paper publications or is it the other way round. Either way these amazingly creative designers are setting [...]

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