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When thinking of Helvetica, it is fair to assume that many of your minds will go immediately to printed medium. Posters, fliers and calendars all frequently use the font for their main design, usually to use an attractive typeface that isn’t as overabused as the old standard, Arial.

But there are plenty of places where typography lovers can apply Helvetica. In this case, we are going to look at some of the small movies that have been made featuring the font prominently, sometimes as the main focus.

If you have spent any amount of time in the website design game, you know that CSS is a staple you can’t ignore. As Flash takes a back seat more and more, this method of coding is becoming more necessary by the day. It is also becoming a basic for graphic forms, one example being typography.

More than just a font, typographic art has become a movement on the online world. From creation of new lettering to the use of those fonts on website design to more clearly altered context or providing visual appeal, you can’t get away from it. CSS makes it easier than ever to manipulate and utilize typography for your web designs.

There have been many fonts in the past that were once used for pure necessity, as nothing else would show clearly on a computer screen. This was especially true of fonts that were used for print, which were not usually readable once they were put online or in a presentation. Due to this, new lettering was created to provide a more crisp and usable electronic viewing format. Pixel fonts are a great example of this.

A lot of people like the look of a handwriting font because it can make their website look more casual and inviting, and their documents unique – especially when crafting things like stationary or gift cards. There are hundreds of handwriting script typefaces available – many for free on the Internet – but there’s a fine line between a font that looks like handwriting and one that is legible enough to read.

Ah, typography. It can not only make or break a design, but inspire new ideas as well. A good font is one of the most valuable tools a designer has. For 15 excellent and fresh fonts, read more.

Typography is an immensely important factor in design, be it for the web or print. You can give a design a completely different personality just by changing the font of your body copy or headlines, for example. In today’s post, I will go over the basics of typography and explain some fundamental concepts and terms.

You may ask yourself before designing a poster how should it looks like, what do you have to point out and how to arrange your text. First. think for what do you want to design the poster, think about the category, services and what does the company / event etc, wants to point out. For example a poster for a [...]

Headlines are important typography design element. It help users to find out what is most important in content. Headlines must be big, attractive and effective to attract users for more reading and browsing.

In this article we want to present 30 Professional Free Fonts for Excellent Typography you should consider using for your designs or typography works. Make sure you maintain records of where fonts were acquired and keep the original archive file with the legal terms to prove permission of use. In this collection, you’ll find only the best free and high-quality fonts for clean and professional designs.