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By Douglas Bonneville on July 13, 2011
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!
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By Douglas Bonneville on July 6, 2011
What better topic for Mistral to be an appropriate font choice for, than a spoofy Italian movie about Hercules fighting against assorted masters of Karate, circa 1973? Perfect!
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By Douglas Bonneville on June 26, 2011
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 [...]
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By Douglas Bonneville on June 20, 2011
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.
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By Douglas Bonneville on April 9, 2011
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 [...]
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By Douglas Bonneville on February 4, 2011
An Inspiring Collection of Fonts FontShop sold a typeface collection called “100 Best Fonts” for a limited time in Germany a little while back. The website for this special promotion generously listed the names of all 100 best typefaces for graphic design with background information in German. When the typeface collection was no longer available, [...]
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By Douglas Bonneville on February 1, 2011
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 [...]
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By Douglas Bonneville on February 1, 2011
So I’m working on this big new post (check back soon) and I notice two curly quotes that for some reason struck me like they looked like that old-time barbershop down-the-middle hairstyle from the turn of the 20th century. I had typed the characters in the order they appeared on the keyboard (I had been [...]
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By Douglas Bonneville on January 22, 2011
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.
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By Douglas Bonneville on November 7, 2010
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 .
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By Douglas Bonneville on July 31, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Books, Font Combinations, Typography |
By Douglas Bonneville on July 20, 2010
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.
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By Douglas Bonneville on May 13, 2010
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.
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By Douglas Bonneville on May 11, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Font Combinations, Typography, Web Design |
By Douglas Bonneville on March 15, 2010
When you are in transit, at a meeting, or at lunch, having your iPhone with you affords you a chance to get some graphic design work done when away from your computer. These 16 useful apps for graphic designers will help you learn, organize, brainstorm, or research different aspects of your design work. As a [...]
Posted in Creativity, Graphic Designers, iPhone, Typography |
By Douglas Bonneville on March 12, 2010
We are excited to have our first app be published in the iTunes Store. It’s a simple app called Font Combinations that lets you see how different header and body fonts relate to each other with a simple swipe. So many fonts, so little time!
Posted in Graphic Design, iPhone, Typography |
By Douglas Bonneville on February 24, 2010
Many people don’t know how great the font tryout tools are over at MyFonts.com. Here is a quick tutorial to show you just how easy it is to take a typeface or font for a spin, changing it’s size, kerning, and even sampling its extras like ligatures and fractions. It takes about 1 minute to [...]
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By Douglas Bonneville on February 22, 2010
What would Helvetica look like if it wasn’t so perfectly stoic, so absolutely neutral? Perhaps it would look like “Smilevetica“, if it took a positive outlook on life. Helvetica, Helvetica, why so serious all the time? Have a chat with Smilevetica and brighten up!
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By Douglas Bonneville on December 10, 2009
Font choices can make or break a message. In the 23 examples we created below, we broke the message on purpose to highlight how on a conscious or subconscious level, poor typeface choices negatively affect the message in the copy.
Posted in Typography | Tagged Typography |
By Douglas Bonneville on December 3, 2009
One of our most popular font articles is about how to create good font combinations. But don’t take our word for it! We’ve collected a cadre of excellent articles to help you make even better typeface pairs. Take a look at our font combinations article and the free PDF after you peruse this list. (10/12/2010 [...]
Posted in Font Combinations, Typography | Tagged Font Combinations, most popular fonts, top fonts, typeface pairs, Typography |
By Douglas Bonneville on November 27, 2009
Part of the fun of running a graphic design blog is getting to see how people find the site through Google. I recently took a look at my analytics, and found some crazy typos and hilarious search strings! While most of my traffic comes from other designers through Twitter and other graphic design related sites, [...]
Posted in Graphic Design, Print Design, Typography, WordPress Blogging | Tagged Graphic Design, monitor resolution, printing press, Typography |
By Douglas Bonneville on October 27, 2009
Last month I posted an article called 19 top fonts in 19 top combinations which caught the attention of Jacob Cass and Smashing Magazine and quite a few other readers as a result of all the traffic that came in from Twitter. I also got a lot of correspondence over the article with a large [...]
Posted in Graphic Designers, Typography | Tagged Graphic Designers, most popular fonts, top fonts, Typography |
By Douglas Bonneville on September 24, 2009
A quick way to give customers fast complete access to a printable version of your business or products is to get a PDF version of your brochure on your website. Smart move! But you don’t want to put just any PDF brochure design on the web. If you want to communicate your services or products [...]
Posted in Brochures, Corporate Identity, Freelance Graphic Design, Graphic Design, Page Layout, Print Design, Typography | Tagged Corporate Identity, Print Design, Typography |
By Douglas Bonneville on September 23, 2009
Grab your beveled pica ruler, Letraset rub downs, and your favorite browser. We did some fresh research to discover what the best typography blogs are, according to the top graphic design blogs. We went through our own lists (see Related Posts below) of top graphic design blogs, some other lists, and tallied up all of [...]
Posted in Freelance Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blogs, Typography | Tagged Graphic Design Blogs, Graphic Designers, Typography |
By Douglas Bonneville on September 18, 2009
I recently compiled a list of the 19 most popular fonts according to usage by graphic designers from all over the web. I could have had 100, but I got it down to under 50, and from there whittled it down to just the 19 best fonts. Why 19? Because at exactly 20, the “long [...]
Posted in Typography | Tagged most popular fonts, top fonts, Typography |
By Douglas Bonneville on September 17, 2009
Ikea, as many of you know, changed their typeface for all catalog, in-store, and online presence to Verdana. Yes, Verdana. The outrage by graphic designers and others with an intuitive design sense let out an immediate cry of digust. An online petition was started. I just got around to signing it. It’s up to about [...]
Posted in Graphic Designers, Typography | Tagged top fonts, Typography |
By Douglas Bonneville on September 9, 2009
Out of the huge number of fonts used by graphic designers, there really is quite a small pool of fonts consistently chosen over and over again by graphic designers as their “most used”. I took some time to search out as many “top fonts for graphic designers” search results (plus variations) that I had time [...]
Posted in Graphic Designers, Typography | Tagged top fonts, Typography |
By Douglas Bonneville on September 8, 2009
We did the homework so you can pass the test! We spent a bunch of hours weeding through the menagerie of great and not so great blogs and websites to see if we could come up with a nice cross section of agreed-upon, best font recommendations from sources the collective brain of the web has [...]
Posted in Typography | Tagged Graphic Design Blogs, top fonts, Typography |
By Douglas Bonneville on September 3, 2009
There are approximately 73 billion typefaces out there in the wild the last time I counted. 99.5% of them are either copies of classic fonts, totally useless in regards to real typography, or copies of classic fonts rendered totally useless for real typography because of poor construction of the font files like missing characters and [...]
Posted in Typography | Tagged top fonts, Typography |
By Douglas Bonneville on September 3, 2009
Ever had a print job come back only to see blurry small type but nice and crisp images? When you are designing for 4-color process (CMYK), you have to obey a few rules or you’ll end up with poor results off the press. One mistake that very common to new designers is the flippant applying [...]
Posted in Print Design, Typography | Tagged prepress, Print Design, Typography |
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