Typography
Fontbook Review
Recently I received through the post something large, yellow and weighing 3kg. No, not a genetically modified banana, but FontShop’s FontBook, the encyclopaedia of type. This book really should come…
Author: UF Team
Best Fonts
Chalet Font for Veerle’s Blog
You can’t believe how many times a week I get the question what the font’s name is that I use for my titles on this site. So high time for…
Design
Color and Typography in Good Design
Typography is a significant issue for designers. On many projects, finding just the right font, size, spacing, etc. can require considerable time and attention. In addition to typography, color is…
Technology
The Anatomy of Web Fonts
If one aspect of design has suffered most in its transition to the Web, it is the art of typography. For years, Web typography involved little more than choosing a…
Famous Fonts
FF Meta Serif Released
It took three years and three designers to develop FF Meta® Serif. All through the ’90s, Erik Spiekermann made several attempts at designing a counterpart for his groundbreaking FF Meta®.…
Design
The Showcase Of BIG Typography
The main advantage of excellent typography lies in its ability to be both attractive and functional at the same time. Although images communicate more vividly, text presentation can impress visitors…
Famous Fonts
Arial or Helvetica? Take the test
Once there was a typeface called Helvetica. It was extremely popular. Later came a software company called Microsoft. They “borrowed” Helvetica for their operating system and called it Arial. This…
Best Fonts
80 Beautiful Typefaces for Professionals
Every now and then designers stumble upon the very same problem: the choice of a unique and beautiful typeface which manages to fulfill three basic tasks. Support the corporate identity,…
Best Fonts
15 Excellent Examples of Web Typography
I have spent the last month searching, stumbling, noting, bookmarking and analysing in a quest to find 15 Excellent examples of Web Typography. I’ve chosen them because they make excellent…