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…
The UrbanFonts Blog
Font guides, copy-and-paste text styles, brand typography and how-tos.
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…
New Fonts
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 more intimate size, is the lettering of engineering:…
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.…
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…