Font directory, previews & typography guides
Font guides, copy-and-paste text styles, brand typography and how-tos.
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…
Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. It allows you to choose from a list of PC and MAC fonts, or you can also…
There are many reasons why Helvetica is so widespread. The most obvious being that a few weights have been bundled with the Mac OS for years. It is arguably the…
There’s an interesting article at the Wichite State University website that deals with how a font choice in your email can change your recipient’s perception of your email. A sample email message…
A font relies strictly on text to convey a message and the message can be literally what a design is all about. The shape of the letters combined with the…
Microsoft is shipping great new fonts with its new operating system Windows Vista. You can download the fonts for free and legally as part of the 2007 version of the…
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Ye Olde Publication needs some help. An Old English font is the perfect choice for advertisements, invitations, newsletters, flyers, greeting cards and any publication that demands…
Think of the 60’s era and its advertising. What comes to mind? Style? Slick designs? Clean lines? That’s due in large part to Max Miedinger and his Helvetica font design.…
The Futura font is a popular font that enjoyed its heyday during the 20th century. This simple geometric sans serif design was developed in the late 1920s by Paul Renner…
Arial is everywhere. If you don’t know what it is, you don’t use a modern personal computer. Arial is a font that is familiar to anyone who uses Microsoft products,…
