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Four Ways to Mix Fonts

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Is there a way to know what fonts will work together? Building a palette is an intuitive process, but expanding a typographic duet to three, four, or even five voices can be daunting. Here are four tips for navigating the typographic ocean, all built around H&FJ's Highly Scientific First Principle of Combining Fonts: keep one thing consistent, and let one thing vary.

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Posted 16th March 2010
61 Fantabulous Fonts For Titles!

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Ahh another font roundup... Gotta love these things! I often find myself scouring sites like WantedFonts or DaFont for hours at a time and end up with about 50-100 new fonts and hardly ANY work done. Well, if this sounds familiar, I have taken the searching out of finding some awesome fonts for you to use for titling in your productions! Bold and beautiful, I am sure there is something here for everyone!

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Posted 27th February 2010
30 of the Best Fonts Designers Should Use for Print

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Although there are a few interchangeable fonts that can be used for web and print, the list we’ve compiled below should help you get a head start on what fonts are the most effective in print.

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Posted 19th January 2010
Light Fonts Use in Web Design: Examples and Resources

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Light/thin fonts are the fonts that are usually slim and slender than usually fonts. Using light fonts one can create beautiful typography, websites, banner and etc. In this post we are exploring basic characteristics of lights fonts , some examples of light fonts and sharing some best free light fonts on the web.

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Posted 24th December 2009
On Web Typography

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There are many books and articles on typography, but considerably few explore typeface selection and pairing. With the floodgates poised to open and the promise of many typefaces being freed up for use on websites, choosing the right face to complement a website’s design will need to become another notch in the designer’s belt. But where do we start?

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Posted 26th November 2009
Typography is the backbone of good web design

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Below are a few techniques I generally go with when styling my type and aspects I considered and incorporated while designing BrianHoff.net.

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Posted 19th November 2009
50 Free Movie Themed Fonts You Can Download

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Who doesn't like new fonts? I was searching through the net and realized that a lot of people use some really epic looking movie themed fonts in their projects because, well... they are just plain awesome. I have 50 fonts for you all to check out and download this week and experiment with. Try making some title treatments or some logo reveals, these are bound to spark some creativity in you somewhere!

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Posted 15th November 2009
55 “Unconventional” And Original Free Fonts For An Unique Design

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Every day highly skilled designers and type foundries release free fonts, in this collection you will find 55 downloadable high-quality fonts to create unique and original compositions. So make your graphics unique with one of these fantastic fonts!

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Posted 18th October 2009
Fonts Used In Logos of Popular Design Blogs

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I got in touch with a good number of design blogs with one question – What font do you use in your logo? I got back a hefty amount of responses and found out the rest through some top notch detective work (a special thanks goes out to all those who replied back).

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Posted 14th October 2009
Becoming a Font Embedding Master

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I've spent a couple days worth now trying to figure out the best and most complete approach to font embedding using @font-face. It really is a dark art that must be mastered. It is by no means a straightforward process.

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Posted 8th October 2009
Converting OTF or TTF to EOT

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There are a number of pieces to the puzzle but in the end, I got something to work. The assumption here is that you are on a Mac (as I am) but I believe these tools work the same on PC.

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Posted 6th October 2009
30 Free Fonts Which Are Perfect For Professional Logo Designs

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A Great compilation of Creative Nerds favourite Free Fonts Which Are Perfect and suitable For creating Professional Logo Designs. A great collections of fonts which are perfect for designers who are designing on a small budget.

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Posted 7th September 2009
Fonts Used In Logos of Popular Websites Fonts

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This roundup was gathered through a combination of top notch Google-ing and What the Font?-ing. Midway through my travels across the internet, I stumbled upon a Web 2.0 logo font roundup, which is worth a look as well.

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Posted 18th July 2009
Good Logos Are Flexible: Tips to make sure yours is

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Instead of focusing on what makes a logo look good (because we all know we can argue that point for days based on personal taste), I thought it would be best to focus on what makes a logo work well – a better question to ask yourself while designing a logo is “How flexible is the logo?”

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Posted 10th July 2009
60+ Free Fonts for Big, Bold and Beautiful Headlines

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This articles provides a large collection of Fonts for Big, Bold and Beautiful Headlines that will be really useful for most designers.

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Posted 8th July 2009
CSS Typography Reference Sheet - Get Creative with your Headlines!

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This Reference Sheet was created to emphasize the many options available within CSS, particularly for Typography. So, what are you waiting for, get creative with your headlines!

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Posted 14th October 2008
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Posted 6th October 2008
10 Examples of Beautiful CSS Typography and how they did it…

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There are a lot of great sites out there that have beautiful Typography using only CSS, however simply looking at them is only half of the picture. We want to know what did they do, and how/why does it result in beautiful type?

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Posted 3rd June 2008
Typography Essentials - A Getting Started Guide

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What is typography? And why is it so important to graphic designers? As long as you spell everything correctly and make sure the message is what the client wants to see, why does the font style make any difference?

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Posted 20th May 2008
The Typetester

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The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen.

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Posted 5th February 2007

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