Technology
Color choice made easy
We recently tested a great new utility called Genopal PRO - it’s an easy and intuitive software that helps you pick up complementary colors for your projects in a snap.…
Author: UF Team
Best Fonts
Typographica’s Best of 2006
By my best estimation, at least 1,800 new commercial typefaces were released in 2006 alone. This count does not include freebies, custom and proprietary commissions, or even individual weights. It…
Technical
Bad Microsoft Word Typography
From the company that popularized Arial, here are three examples of bad typography in Microsoft Word. Bad typesetting in Word finds its way into resumes, business plans, research papers, government…
Famous Fonts
Taking Back: Times New Roman
Yes all designers HATE Times New Roman, but let’s face it- on the web we are very limited on what fonts we can safely use. I don’t know about anyone…
Web 2.0
The Trends in Web Typography
We’re seeing change in font use and designs in Web 2.0, but these changes aren’t just aesthetic but functional too. So I thought I’d share some insights we’ve had while…
Advertising
Typography in Web Advertising
We have become an increasingly visual society in the years since the advent of television in the 1950s. If other web advertisers are emphasizing imagery, you can either choose to…
Famous Fonts
How many Helvetica versions are there?
When Linotype acquired the Helvetica family it was in disarray - two different names for the same version, variations in design features. To make order out of it all they…
Famous Fonts
Myriad Typeface
Better known today for being Apple’s main font on their website, iPod and more, Myriad is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Robert Slimbach (born 1956) and Carol Twombly (born…
Famous Fonts
The 7 Worst Fonts
Ugly fonts, cutesy fonts, unreadable fonts, bad fonts . . . they have terrorized us for far too long, infiltrating our homes… this article presents the seven worst fonts–and the…