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14 Most Popular Commercial Font Vendors (with Alexa ranking)

commercial-font-vendors Continuing our series of typography resources list posts, we have a handy list of the most popular font vendors sorted by Alexa data. Enough said! Pay each site a visit by clicking the image and see how they differ in terms of browsing, trial interfaces, and pricing. Compare features and user-friendliness and find the best place to make your purchase! … [Read More]

Improve Your Typography: Over 100 Tips from 12 Top Resources

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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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9 Typography Mistakes to Avoid

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 … [Read More]

16 Most Popular Sites to Download Free Fonts

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. free-fonts … [Read More]

14 Top Free Serif Fonts with Multiple Weights

free-serif-fonts If you have a growing collection of usable free sans-serif fonts, you need free serif fonts to complement them. Serifs are one of the foundational types of fonts — many appear on every best fonts list for good reason. 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]

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