Alternatives to Helvetica
There are many reasons why Helvetica is so widespread. The most obvious being that a few weights have been bundled with the…
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Font guides, copy-and-paste text styles, brand typography and how-tos.
Choice of Fonts for Emails
There’s an interesting article at the Wichite State University website that deals with how a font choice in your email can change your…
Read more →Sans Serif Fonts for Winning Web Design
A font relies strictly on text to convey a message and the message can be literally what a design is all about.…
Read more →Download New Vista Fonts – Free!
Microsoft is shipping great new fonts with its new operating system Windows Vista. You can download the fonts for free and legally…
Read more →Old English Fonts
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Ye Olde Publication needs some help. An Old English font is the perfect choice for advertisements, invitations, newsletters,…
Read more →The history of Helvetica
Think of the 60’s era and its advertising. What comes to mind? Style? Slick designs? Clean lines? That’s due in large part…
Read more →Futura Font
The Futura font is a popular font that enjoyed its heyday during the 20th century. This simple geometric sans serif design was…
Read more →The Scourge of Arial
Arial is everywhere. If you don’t know what it is, you don’t use a modern personal computer. Arial is a font that…
Read more →Typography 101: A Crash Course
Typography is a discipline that goes back many centuries. With the revolution of desktop publishing came a level of typography that was…
Read more →The oldest font in Windows
Fixedsys is actually the oldest font in Windows. The name means fixed system, although it is often pronounced “fixed size” because its…
Read more →What are pixel fonts?
A bitmap font is one that stores each glyph as an array of pixels (that is, a bitmap). It is less commonly…
Read more →Graffiti Fonts
One of the most popular font categories on this website is Graffiti Fonts, but what exactly is a graffiti? The word Graffiti is actually…
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