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100 Top Free Font Combinations?
Now that the year anniversary of The Big Book of Font Combinations is on us, and Font Combinations App 2.0 has been out in the iTunes App Store and updated by nearly everybody, the time is now to ask: what about the legions of free fonts that are available? The first two products focused entirely [...]
Review and Rate the all-new Font Combinations App in the iTunes App Store
Spread the love! If you like the all-new Font Combinations 2.0 app, and we hope you do, please stop by the iTunes App Store and give it a review and some star ratings for us! We need your font-loving help!
All-new Font Combinations App 2.0 released to iTunes App Store
Just a quick note to everyone know the all-new Font Combinations 2.0 App has been released and is available on iTunes! Please take a look at the new interface design and list of features! If you bought version 1.0, your free update is on the way! Let us know how you like it! And don’t [...]
Font Combinations 2.0 Preview & Screenshots
The Font Combinations app 2.0 is on the way for iPhone and iPod Touch with iOS 4.2 and later! It’s a complete rewrite from the ground up with a slew of new features, a whole new UI, and best of all, all-new Retina Display graphics.
Random Font Combination Generator
Here is a little foretaste of some upcoming functionality in our new Font Combinations app. Click “Randomize Me” to generate a random typeface pairing from about 50 of the top typefaces of all time. There are nearly 2000 combinations at your fingertips below. After you’ve had some fun, please click on the link to the [...]
New “Font Combinations” apps on the way
You asked for it and we’re building it. Just a heads-up that all new typeface pairing apps are on the way. “Font Combinations” is coming out on iPad, iPhone 4 (Retina Display), Android, and even Mac OS! Stay tuned this Spring 2011!
Fonts that work with Gill Sans
What fonts go with Gill Sans and match up nicely? The truth is that there are probably thousands of fonts that would pair with Gill Sans just fine. The trouble is finding them and making something work really well. To find something that works and still have time left for designing, you are going to [...]
Smashing eBook #6: Typography
Smashing Magazine’s eBook #6: Typography has just been released. I contributed an article, “Best Practices of Combining Typefaces“. Please drop by the Smashing Magazine store and pick up a copy for your iPad, iPhone, or your favorite eBook reader.
Free PSD from Smashing Magazine article “Combining Typefaces”
I had a few requests for the PSD from which all the graphics were created for the article “Best Practices of Combining Typefaces“. Here it is for anyone interested in how the graphics were made, whether you liked the psuedo-CSS3 embossing or my choice of colors or not .
New “Font Combination” article at Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine just published my article “Best Practices of Combining Typefaces“. The article expands on some of the principles I’ve covered in other articles here at BonFX, but has a lot of large, original illustrations and uses some of the most popular fonts in design today. Stop by and take a look!
Free copy of Font Combinations Book by Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine is featuring a giveaway of 2 free copies of “The Big Book of Font Combinations“. Just visit either of these pages to find out how to enter. http://www.facebook.com/smashmag/posts/162855233744448 http://twitter.com/#!/smashingmag/status/27534952944 On another note, we just passed 100 posts at BonFX. It took 13 months from the date we started, September 2009. Onward and upward, [...]
The Big Book of Font Combinations is now available in PDF eBook format
I’d like to let everyone know The Big Book of Font Combinations PDF eBook is now ready for download. All 370 pages of typography goodness is yours for the taking. Enjoy!
Cover art for “Font Combinations” book shows samples of all the typefaces used
If you been following the blog here at bonfx.com you have undoubtedly been made aware of my new book in the works. How do you promote a book? Well, if you have followed any news about the iBookstore for iPad, or the Nook or Kindle, you know that the old school Publisher/Author model is over [...]
What typefaces are going in the Big Book of Font Combinations and why?
Here is a sneak peak at what fonts are going in the Big Book of Font Combinations this Fall. I haven’t posted for while as I’ve been neck-deep in InDesign and typefaces and creating useful and / or instructive pairs from them.
Font Combinations Book: Free Preview of font pairings template
Here is a sneak preview of our font combination resource book for graphic designers. The book has one simple goal: to make finding interesting font pairs as easy as possible. We are designing the master template with the intention of setting as many useful examples as possible on one page.
Typography Primer: all you need to know in one PDF
I came across this excellent PDF from Adobe that succinctly covers all the basic terms about typography. Download without delay and refresh your memory. It’s beautifully designed and easy to read with wonderful graphics.
Alt Key Combinations with PDF cheat sheet
There are a handful of keyboard shortcuts for special characters I routinely need but can never quite remember when I’m working on a PC. Because I split time between Mac and PC, I tend to confuse “alt” and “option” key shortcuts. I put together this cheat sheet of the characters I need the most, plus [...]
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