Douglas Bonneville, Author at BonFX

9 Typography Mistakes to Avoid

April 17, 2013 by Douglas Bonneville

We’ve all done it. We all feel bad about it. We want to avoid it in the future: typography mistakes. Whether it was the result of not enough sleep, too tight a deadline, too small a budget, or all of those at the same time, we still must avoid these common typographic mistakes if we want to stay employed as graphic designers! typography-mistakes

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16 Most Popular Sites to Download Free Fonts

April 16, 2013 by Douglas Bonneville

You like to download fonts! You are a font hoarder! Well, you’ll want to be sure that you have these free font sites bookmarked. If you’ve been to these popular font sites already, why not swing by and pay them a quick update visit? And if you haven’t heard of a few, there is no better time than the present to drop by.

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Typography Quote of the Day: Helvetica is King

April 15, 2013 by Douglas Bonneville

Helvetica poster Blue by ECKO Design Group

“Any good typeface can be completely destroyed when misused or extensively overused. Helvetica seemed to sustain a beating like no other. Still fresh, still popular Helvetica is king.”
-Alexander Gelman

Typography Quote of the Day: Little Squiggles

April 15, 2013 by Douglas Bonneville

Krul chosen among “Best of 2012" by Typographica

“Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light, and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.”
–H.G. Wells, The History of Mr. Polly

14 Top Free Serif Fonts with Multiple Weights

April 15, 2013 by Douglas Bonneville

If you have a growing collection of usable free sans-serif fonts, you are going to have to have some free serif fonts to go with them! Our recent article on the most popular free sans-serif fonts outlined four criteria we came up with to navigate the morass of free fonts readily available on the web. We came up with the best 14, we think. Take a look at that article so we don’t have to repeat the text here, and so that we can get on with our list of free serif fonts. … [Read More]