How to Make Beautiful Gradient Typography with Photoshop In this Photoshop type treatment tutorial for beginners, you’ll discover a quick and easy process for making captivating gradient text. Be sure to check out the Gradient Typography in Web Design showcase for inspiration. Final Result Below, you can see what we’ll be creating together. Set up the Photoshop document 1 To start, let’s set up the Photoshop document. Design the background of the text 2 We’ll use a dark blue background. 3 We’ll apply a color overlay layer style onto the Background layer. 4 Change the color overlay by clicking on the Set color of overlay option which will open the Select overlay color dialog box for you to choose your colors in. 5 In the Select overlay color dialog box, choose a dark color. Create a lighting effect in the background 6 The background should now be a dark blue color. 7 Set your Foreground color in the Tools Panel to white (#ffffff). 8 In the Options bar, open the Brush Preset picker by clicking on the downward pointing arrow. Centering the text
25 Print Ads Featuring Excellent Use Of Typography Typography is everywhere, from the web to the print industry. In fact, there’s a lot of talk about beautiful typography in web design, but let’s not forget about the print industry – this is where it all comes from. Today we’re showcasing 25 excellent print ads that feature great typography. About the Author Tom is a freelance writer who blogs for a specialist in HP Laserjet cartridges based in Manchester, England.
WinFontsView: View samples of Windows fonts installed on your system Description WinFontsView is a small utility that enumerates all fonts installed on your system, and displays them in one simple table. For each font, WinFontsView draws 5 samples of the font in different sizes, in order to allow you to easily find and choose the desired font that you need. WinFontsView also allows you to view the fonts as Bold, as Italic or with underline, as well as it allows you to export the fonts list into html file. If you need to find a font in non-English character set, WinFontsView also allows you to choose the right characters set of the fonts and to type the characters displayed in the sample text of each font. System Requirements WinFontsView works with the following versions of Windows: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Winodws Vista, and Windows 7. Search for other utilities in NirSoft Versions History Version 1.10 - Added 'All Character Sets' option, which allows you to view all fonts of all character sets. Using WinFontsView
Typography Daily Random typographic inspiration If you are skeptic about the importance of typography in good graphic design, these gems of inspiration should help to convince you. Graphos A wonderful set of typographic playing cards. Ryan Riegner Discover his type words, really worth a look. Herbert Kapitzki Old but still modern looking type layouts by Herbert Kapitzki. Typography wallpapers And the best about it is, they’re all free! Typographic poster A gorgeous type poster. Paper calligraphy A beautiful gallery, type as art. Film House logo Cute typographic logo with a lovely color scheme.
Web design focused articles and resources » Blog Archive » Smoother @font-face embedding in IE 7 & 8 Design Trends (Predictions) in 2010 As we are stepping in a new decade, I can foresee that web design in 2010 is going to be fun and filled with experimental works. With the new CSS3 and HTML5, designers and developers are trying to utilize the new features to create impressive designs. Sketchy and large background styles are fading out. Serif fonts and texturized background will be popular. Serif Fonts In the last decade, most web sites were designed in either Verdana or Arial (sans-serif fonts), but that is going to change in this new decade. Big Headings Big headings in header (as part of design interface) will gain more popularity in 2010. Custom Font Embedding As Typekit is expanding their font list and more free quality fonts are available (e.g. Texturized Background The big background trend is going to be gradually out-of-date and be replaced with subtle and texturized (particularly the light noise) background. Minimalist & Grid Minimalist and grid designs are not today's new. CSS3 New Features CSS3 Animation Text Shadow
60+ Free Fonts for Big, Bold and Beautiful Headlines | tripwire magazine Typography is a key element of design and communicating a message. This is especially true when it comes to Headlines that must attract immediate attention and wake an interest to investigate further. This articles provides a large collection of Fonts for Big, Bold and Beautiful Headlines that will be really useful for most designers. All Fonts listed should be free. AdvertisementWhoopass Contra Diogene Bold Baar Zeitgeist Gentium Gentium is a typeface family designed to enable the diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications. Headline SansFAT Old Sans Black Hit the Road Gnuolane Watch tv Telerysm mono 2 Bebas Delicious Gilgongo Sling Bold Fontin The Fontin is designed to be used at small sizes. Fontin Sans With a nice classical appearance it will be a perfect match. Liberation Serif Aardvark Cafe Font Reminga Ambrosia This font is free to use for personal purposes only. Coolvetica Synapse Union Trottoir AUdimat (v2) Diavlo Nevis Jura Akashi Steelfish