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…
Read more →The UrbanFonts Blog
Font guides, copy-and-paste text styles, brand typography and how-tos.
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…
Read more →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…
Read more →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,…
Read more →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…
Read more →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…
Read more →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…
Read more →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…
Read more →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…
Read more →Gotham – New typeface by Hoefler & Frere-Jones
Our Gotham typeface, inspired by signs on buildings, celebrates the workmanlike “draftsman’s alphabet” at a monumental scale. Similarly unadorned, but at a…
Read more →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…
Read more →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…
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