Posts tagged ‘typography’
Free Font Friday #5: Headlines
It’s Friday. We love Friday’s around here…not because we shut down (we run just about 24/7), but because we get to offer our designers something for free. Take a look at these fonts that are great for creating headlines.
Free Font Friday #4: Clean Modern
We love Fridays, and we love offering our designers some free fonts that they can use in the print projects. Contact us if we can help in any of your commercial printing needs. Enjoy the fonts and have a great weekend!
We would like to thank Web Designer Wall for their font selection. Check then out and subscribe to their feed. The have great information on inspiration, typography, print and graphic design.
Free Font Friday #3
It’s Friday already. We hope you all had a great and productive week. This week we are focusing on a couple of great Grunge Fonts as part of our Free Font Friday series. These fonts are free to use (always check the licensing) for personal and commercial use. Leave a Comment and let us know which are your favorite Grunge Fonts.
11 Essential Tips for Good Print Typography
There was an article awhile back entitled 11 Essential Tips for Good Print Typography by Matt @ Spoonfed Design . Even though the article is a bit old, the principles still apply to good typography.
One thing about typography is that is a massive part of design, as well as design being a massive part of your type. Read Matt’s article and apply his techniques for solid type design.
Free Font Friday: Fontin Sans
Jos Buivenga created Fontin Sans with a nice classical appearance it will be a perfect match. Fontin will be rereleased in OpenType format (soon) as Fontin Semi (with a Bold Italic) to match new metrics an kerning.
Fontin Sans Font
Free Font Friday: Retro and Vintage Fonts
Friday already. What a week. At Prisma Graphic we want the designers that use our services to have great tools at their disposal in order to create high quality print designs. So, we are offering Free Font Friday. We will showcase several fonts that graphic designers can download for free and use in their projects. If you know of any great fonts that we need to showcase here, let us know. We hope you enjoy!
BlackOut
42 Street
Metro Retro
Just O’Fashion
Megalopolis Extra
Wonderful World RetroCheck out more fonts and typography from Prisma Graphics
Using Single Letters for Logo’s: Some Inspiration
Logos are everywhere. Every business and organization has one. Some, of course, stand out more than others. Some of the greatest logos ever designed have also been the simplest. Here is a collection from Graphic Design Blog that showcases 35 Single Letter Logos. Use these examples as inspiration for your next logo project, and remember to keep it simple. I once heard that the greatest logos are those that can be drawn in the sand. Something to think about.
10 Must Have Design Websites to Check Daily
How do you start your day out. If you are like most designers, you start out with a little industry news and inspiration. These collections of online magazines, some with pdf version, are listed here to give you a kick start to your day.
Let us know what magazines or sites you go to on a daily basis to awaken your design spirit and get you moving each day.
Need the newest articles for graphic and web design? This site has it all, from inspiration, typography, color theory, interviews, and freebies. Both for the graphic designer, print designer, or web designer.
http://www.inspiredm.com
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