We get a lot of traffic about font combinations because of our typography book, font app, font articles, etc. One of the most popular searches that we don’t have any posts or books on is for “free wedding font combinations”. So this is a shout out to anyone searching for some help on how to put together typography for wedding invitations, professional or otherwise, using only freely-available typefaces. Would you be interested in a book dedicated to this topic? From what we can tell there is a lot of interest, but we aren’t sure if it’s enough to justify a dedicated book. Take a look at The Big Book of Font Combinations to get an idea of what a wedding invitation focused book might look like.

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Here are the three (well, four) best resources for creating classic font combinations that we know of:

• The Big Book of Font Combinations (our book)
• 29 principles for making great font combinations (our big list of principles)
• 14 Top Typeface and Font Combinations Resources (our big list of resources)

The resource page has pretty much all the classic font combination pages and resources from over the last decade. If you start there, you are going to get all the info you need. There are other more modern sites that focus on examples rather than principles, such as I Font You, but they tend to be a bit random. A book like The Big Book of Font Combinations takes a systematic approach and limits itself to a core subset of the most popular fonts of all time.

BONUS REFERENCE: You can also find many of the classic fonts, pre-typeset and mixable on the fly in, our iPhone App, Font Combinations 2.0.

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 on classic typefaces. But with the popularity of free fonts rising with each month, I now wonder about how those fonts are being used by those that download them. My question is simple: would designers find a book just like The Big Book of Font Combinations, but 100% geared towards free fonts, something useful? If you think so, drop me a line or leave a comment below.

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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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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 forget to try out the new Twitter and Email functions while you are at it!

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…. [Read More]

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 Big Book of Font Combinations for some full-sized, 100% vector combinations, and the Font Combinations App for some mobile typography inspiration. Enjoy!

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Yo, Font-Addict! Make sure to check out The Big Book of Font Combinations. Go grab a copy from Amazon or B&N, or grab the DISCOUNTED ebook PDF digital download version (40% OFF the hardcover retail price!) from the BonFX Store, and stare at all 350+ examples of informative font combinations for web and print. You know you want to!

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EDIT: 10/28/2014 Apple’s iOS 8 update has broken Font Combinations! We are working on a new version to take advantage of all the code and hardware developments since 2010! 

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!

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 have to limit your choices. But to what?

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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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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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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!

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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, and thanks for stopping by!

I’d like to let everyone know The Big Book of Font Combinations PDF and is now ready for download. All 370 pages of typography goodness is yours for the taking. Enjoy!The Big Book of Font Combinations is an expansive collection of carefully crafted typeface pair samples. The font pairings in BBOFC will inspire you and give you back time you need f

or your design projects. Use the font combination examples straight out of the BBOFC in your next project, with other typeface software, or use them as a springboard for your own creativity. However you use the BBOFC, it’s bound to inspire and is a trustworthy companion to consult for all kinds of design projects and general study of typography.

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 with, and the new models rushing in like water from a burst dam. The bottom line is that talking about your book on the web is the new model, pretty much. Everything else is a footnote.

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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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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.

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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 – Updated)
(8/29/2010 – Font Combinations book released)
(7/23/2010 – Updated)
(5/26/2010 – Updated list again)
(3/16/2010 – The list has been updated with more resources)

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