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Typography Quote of the Day: Communication

April 25, 2013 by Douglas Bonneville

Robert Büchler

“Form without function is formalism. Typography can neither be modern nor beautiful if it just pays homage to form rather than fulfill its purpose – a legible communication.”

-Robert Büchler

 

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Improve Your Typography: Over 100 Tips from 12 Top Resources

April 23, 2013 by Douglas Bonneville

typography-tips

It’s no trouble to be reminded of the simple things we can do to improve our typographic chops! This quick list of a dozen top typography resources feature over 100 easy-to-grasp hints, tips, and bits of advice. If you are a type newbie, spend a few minutes soaking up some new (to you) typography advice. If you are a seasoned type pro…well…spend a few minutes re-soaking up some old (to you) typography advice! Nobody remembers everything, right?

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Typography Quote of the Day: Great Ads

April 23, 2013 by Douglas Bonneville

Herb Lubalin

Herb Lubalin

Herb Lubalin

“You can do a good ad with poor typography, but you can’t do a great ad with poor typography.”

—Herb Lubalin

 

 

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Typography Quote of the Day: Black and White

April 23, 2013 by Douglas Bonneville

“Black and white is the simplest and the most radical expression.”

-Werner Jeker

Werner Jeker

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Typography Quote of the Day: Love of Letters

April 17, 2013 by Douglas Bonneville

Design by : "Little Miss Maggie" -littlemissmaggie1.blogspot.com/

“A love of letters is the beginning of typographical wisdom. That is, the love of letters as literature and the love of letters as physical entities, having abstract beauty of their own, apart from the ideas they may express or the emotions they may evoke.”

-John R. Biggs

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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!

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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

 

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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

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14 Top Free Serif Fonts with Multiple Weights

April 15, 2013 by Douglas Bonneville

free-serif-fonts

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.

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