I could stare at typefaces for hours on end. Everything from their curves, swoops, sexy calligraphic lines, to the personalities — doesn’t the OneLeigh ‘g’ look sad and crumbled below? — that draw me in for a closer look. I enjoy everything about them! While spending time in awe looking at type specimen sheets, there [...]
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Put on Your Best Face: Designers Discuss Typefaces
With thousands of free fonts available from various sources scattered throughout the web, it’s easy for designers (and non-designers) to build their computer’s font libraries with hundreds and thousands of free fonts with just a few clicks. But is it really worth it to have access to this many? First off I am not stating [...]
Gain Design Work by Building Trust and Relationships
Recently in a live interview with Neenah Paper I was asked, “What advice would you give to those trying to promote their business and gain more work?” My response – “Build trust and relationships and the rest will follow.” During and following the interview I received an excessive amount of positive feedback and ‘What do [...]
Every Typography Lover’s Toolshed of Resources
I am always on the hunt for new, inspiring and typography-related resources. Below are 35+ organized resources, inspiration, educational sites and more that relate in some shape and form to typography. Feel free to dig through the typographic “tool shed” of resources below: RESOURCES Typedia is a community website to classify typefaces and educate people [...]
Additional Typography Mistakes You Might Be Making
In a follow up to one of TDC’s past most popular articles, 10 Common Typography Mistakes (part 1), I’ve decided to take the post a bit further and introduce some NEW mistakes and misuses in typography. Again, the goal of this post is to help designers and clients understand the importance of good type skills, [...]
Collection of Inspirational Website Design Collections
Over the past several months and last year many other blogs have compiled their list of web design inspiration – so in case you missed them here is the Motherload Collection organized into categories for your convenience! Business Inspirational Collections 21 Simple But Impressive Corporate Websites of Top Brands 30 Most Inspiring Business Websites 30 [...]
