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Free fonts and premium fonts used by designers

Free fonts and premium fonts used by designers
There are usually two camps among designers when it comes to typeface choices. One group has a handful of favorite typefaces they adapt to every design they create, believing that these handful of typefaces can be suitable for every situation. The other camp believes in using a huge variety of typefaces, picking and choosing each one based specifically on the project at hand. Regardless of which camp you fit into, the typefaces below should interest you. They have proven popular among designers the world over, and are used in designs for everything from multi-national corporations to individual books or journals. Have we missed one of your old time favorites? Akzidenz Grotesk Akzidenz Grotesk was the first widely-adopted sans serif typeface, and an influencer of many later neo-grotesque typefaces, including Helvetica and Univers. Akzidenz Grotesk was created in 1898 by H. Strengths Akzidenz-Grotesk is a versatile typeface, suitable for both headlines and body copy. Avenir Baskerville Bembo

40 Elegant Free Thin and Light Fonts for Designers One of the most important and crucial step in web designing is selecting fonts, which font should be used and where. The point is, nowadays you cannot overlook selection of fonts in every aspect of designing whether it is graphic designing or web designing. Fonts should be according to the niche of design, for example, Grunge fonts should be used in Grunge and Filthy designs, Groovy fonts should be used in comic designing etc. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. Thin fonts are so elegant and neat that these fonts can be used everywhere you want, They can be used to design a corporate logo, headers of websites and most importantly as body text as they are very easy to read.

21 Exceptional Fonts Every Designer Should Have Fonts are essential part of design, Design doesn’t complete without the appropriate font style, proper font not only enhances the beauty of the text but it also gives the suited professional touch. Designers amass hundred of fonts according to their projects so that they can make over their logos, headings, taglines etc. Sometimes it becomes difficult to find out appropriate font for a particular project, and it’s really time consuming to find out such fonts on web and people get annoyed if they aren’t free or they won’t find what they need. Last time Bloggers Path came with some beautiful fancy fonts for the designers and font lovers, this time we again deeply searched the web so that our audience don’t squander their precious time to find appropriate fonts according to their needs. We have collected 21 beautiful fonts for the designers; designers can use them commercially and for personal projects and can create beautiful websites, logo designs and t-shirt fonts. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

30 Great And Free Fonts That Every Designer Should Know About Every designer knows that a good font not only can mask minor problems in an illustration but also make the difference between common and great piece of work. It gives you a balance between readability and design, so you need to choose it well. In this article you can see 30 great free fonts that you should know about. Aller ChunkFive Colaborate PT Sans Cantarell Bebas Droid Sans District Thin FFF Tusj NeoRetroDraw Pincoyablack Riesling UpperEastSide SeasideResort Impact Label Rothenburg Decorative Diner Burnstown Dam Clutchee New Cicle Ostrich Sans Liberation Sans Molengo Insolent Perspective Sans Vanilla HamburgerHeaven Distant Galaxy BPdots 20db

New High-Quality Free Fonts (2012 Edition) - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Every now and then, we look around, select fresh free high-quality fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you should be investing in your projects. We search for them and find them so that you don’t have to. In this selection, we’re pleased to present Homestead, Bree Serif, Levanderia, Valencia, Nomed Font, Carton and other quality fonts. Please note that while most fonts are available for commercial projects, some are for personal use only and are clearly marked as such in their descriptions. Free Fonts HomesteadHomestead is a very distinctive Slab Serif typeface that leaves a lasting impression with its geometric forms and a modern, progressive look. Bree Serif RegularThis typeface is the serif cousin of the playful, charming and versatile type family Bree which was designed by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione back in 2008. Novecento (Registration on MyFonts is required!) Last Click

Free Creative Fonts Every Designer Should Download In this post we’ve rounded up 20 new high quality fonts for you to use in your designs. With more and more designers in the world, creative free fonts are released even quicker than usual which makes us more than happy. Staying up-to-date with design resources isn’t easy, especially because they’re scattered throughout the internet. Because of that, I’m making selections of my own of the new and free fonts that are being released so I won’t have to look again and again through a large number of fonts on various sites, just one good list with fresh and useful ones. Code Full Circle Roke Orial Branko Kockica Circled Jura Hero Sketchetica Fat Vodka Guayule Say it fat Base Roll up Typeface Adec Kilogram Matilde Raleway Tiwo CR21modern Doughboy Puhl Maddie’s font Deibi Piron original FONT 2 Retro Matey Prociono Gembira MSD.10 Typeface Rubber Paranoid Sertig Solgas Aerofrog High Five St Transmission Teardrop Lobster Fabianstem Color Lines Luco Badabing Cardo Tenderness St Marie SMD Black Days typeface

20 High Quality Free Fonts Every Designer Should Own As a designer if you think of the term “Free Fonts” you’ll probably imagine all kinds of garish decorative fonts worthy for use in nothing more than Microsoft Word, but there’s actually a range of high quality fonts by professional designers available free on the web. This post pulls together a mix of font styles that will suit a variety of projects, including serif, sans-serif, slab-serif and a couple of script fonts. Not only are they all free to download, but they can all be used commercially too.

fonts, typefaces and all things typographical — I love Typography (ILT) Designing type systems I remember a conversation from back in my student days where my typophile friends and I debated what the ultimate typeface of the twentieth century was, a typeface that summed up all of the era’s advancements and knowledge into a coherent whole, one that would be a reference for years to come. Helvetica was one of the candidates for its sheer ubiquity, proof of its overall acceptance. Another, more subtle proposal was Jan van Krimpen’s Romulus, one of the first typefaces to have related Sans and Serif versions. And another, my personal pick, was Univers by Adrian Frutiger. Univers specimen, Deberny et Peignot, Paris, 1964. Thanks to Linotype GmbH for providing the illustration. Univers goes beyond the quest to design individual letters, attempting instead to design space, to create a system of relationships between different sets of shapes which share distinctive parameters. Thanks to Frutiger it is now common practice to produce a dozen or more styles when working on a new type family.

16 Best-Loved Font Bits In Web Design – Inspiration Bit This article is the 2nd one in the Web Design series. It was inspired and partially based on the results of the interviews conducted with 35 web designers by Smashing Magazine. The first 6 bits of fonts on this list are considered “web-safe” – they’re supported by all major browsers on any platform. The fonts in the following 2 bits come pre-installed on most but not all systems. The fonts in the last 8 bits are mainly used for decorative purposes, and implemented on the Web as sIFR or saved as images. Helvetica, Helvetica Neue, ArialHelvetica was created by Swiss designers 50 years ago, Helvetica is one of the most widely used sans-serif typefaces. So here you go – hopefully you’ve enjoyed reading a bit of history on some of the most popular typefaces favoured by many modern web designers.

Striking Web Sites with Font Stacks that Inspire – Inspiration Bit Did you know that Web Designers have many dreams? We dream about the end of browser wars, death of IE6, we hope to see the end of raster wars and plead our case to powerful authorities to release more fonts into the public domain or at least distribute new Vista typefaces for other platforms. While we all wait for the world (or at least the World of Wide Web) to become more beautiful and complete, and beseeching for those wishes to come true, some designers take actions by actually saying good bye to IE6 and dropping support for that browser-dinosaur or doing their best and still managing to produce web sites with such a jaw dropping stunning web typography that would make even some leading print publications green with envy. Last week I featured dozens of web sites that use only one of the ten core web fonts, Georgia, to delight our eyes with beautiful typography. Must read articles on CSS Font Stacks and Font Surveys Web Sites with font stacks that stand out First choice: Baskerville

10 Iconic Fonts and Why You Should Never Use Them We’ve got a lot to thank Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and the computing world’s other leaders for. They’re responsible for some of the greatest leaps forward in communications and business in the last 30 years-and many of the biggest innovations in design, too. Without them, our industry wouldn’t be what it is today, and many of the world’s top designers wouldn’t have a platform for their work. However, there is one reason to resent these giants: their choice of fonts. In releasing mega-popular suites and catering to a broad, design-illiterate audience, leading business applications such as Microsoft Word shocked us with the overused fonts that they include standard in their latest releases. This isn’t a riff on the world’s worst fonts, but rather an invitation for amateur designers and business users to stop abusing some of the world’s best fonts. Nothing is particularly wrong with Impact or Comic Sans as fonts per se, but there is a huge deal wrong with using them in every situation. 1. 2. 3.

20+ examples of beautiful and inspiring fonts Choosing fonts for design projects can be a daunting task because there’s thousands of fonts out there all over the web that you could use. Whether you’re looking to create a big, bold logo for your business or work on a poster for an event here’s a collection of inspiring fonts that are perfect for use whatever your project may be. The collection covers a variety of themes from vintage to clean and simple. Remember to check the license before using any of these fonts commercially and any restrictions on use. Neo Deco Neo Deco is a beautiful, professional font that works well for logos. PLSTK is a completely unique font. Kabel Kabel is a well designed, interesting font. Kilogram Kilogram is a solid, bold and headline font. Code is a very nice, simple and clean font. Another unique font, Telefono, has loads of added detail to each glyph. Novecento Hagin Looking for a headline font that stands out? Paranoid VAL is a fun font that looks great. Absinthe Feeling the need for a vintage font? RBNo2 Nomed

Create Headings With Big and Small Overlapping Text Headings introduce content. We can apply many effects and tricks to graphic-based headings to entice readers to continue reading, to set the tone or to make one heading stand out among many. But sometimes the most obvious techniques, such as modifying visual weight and layout, work a lot better. Overlapping titles use a small amount of big text and a big amount of small text to communicate more than a plain heading could do on its own. Sounds contradictory? Read on to learn how to create memorable headings with overlapping text. What do the odd shapes above have to do with the names “WDD” and “WebdesignerDepot.com”? At a glance, the graphic above is a straightforward presentation of a blog name and its abbreviation. It is even spelled and capitalized according to the blog’s style. The shading above reveals the new shapes created by the two pieces of text. Of course, overlapping isn’t always the best way to arrange a short title and long sub-title. Fundamentals of Overlapping Text

30 Best Fonts, Downloadable Fonts, Free Fonts, Cool Fonts for Designers Posted on 02'08 Mar Posted on March 2, 2008 along with 414 JUST™ Creative Comments – Here are 30 of the Best Fonts / Typefaces that every designer must / should own sorted by alphabetical order. There are 15 serif fonts and 15 sans-serif fonts. These fonts will last you your whole career! A brief description of what each font is best suited for is provided however are not limited to this. There are some top free cool fonts that are downloadable in this collection and some that come with your operating system… the others are not so free but they sure will help you improve your typography! You may also be interested in How To Choose A Font or the Top 5 Typography Resources of all time. What does serif mean? 1. Magazines, journals, text books, corporate communication. 2. Textbooks and magazines 3. Posters, packaging, textbooks. 4. Headlines, text, logos. 5. Dictionaries and headlines. 6. Tabular materials, technical documentation, word processing. 7. Newsletters, Reports, Proposals. 8. 9. 10. 11.

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