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6 Tips for PDF Brochure Design on the Web

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 | 2 Responses

28 Top Typography Blogs Ranked by Top Graphic Design Blogs

28 Top Typography Blogs Ranked by Top Graphic Design Blogs

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 | 4 Responses

19 top fonts in 19 top combinations

19 top fonts in 19 top combinations

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 | 120 Responses

Dear Ikea: Verdana is not a top font and now I can’t go in your store

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 | 7 Responses

19 top fonts most preferred by graphic designers from around the web

19 top fonts most preferred by graphic designers from around the web

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 | 33 Responses

Top 10 fonts for graphic designers from 6 top blogs combined

Top 10 fonts for graphic designers from 6 top blogs combined

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 | 4 Responses

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