Mar

10

Discover the branding power of Stone Serif, Stone Sans, and Stone Humanist

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If you are looking for a typeface family that will never fail to satisfy, explore the Stone family, designed by world-famous type designer Sumner Stone. The Stone family includes Stone Serif, Stone Sans, and Stone Humanist. Within this family, which also includes Stone Informal, there is enough variety to brand your communications, yet permit you […]

Feb

3

Free Font of the Month helps graphic designers build their font library and design attractive ads, brochures, logos, newsletters, & websites

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If you’re a graphic designer, here’s an easy way to build your typeface library of attractive fonts for free by visiting the Font Marketplace website each month and downloading their Free Font of the Month. Each free font you download improves your ability to design attractive ads, brochures, logos, newsletters, and websites.
Each month a selected […]

Jan

19

Like type? Visit My Fonts Top 10 Fonts of the Year

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Visit My Fonts for an illustrated look at the Top 10 Fonts of the Year, based on 2008 sales. See which fonts are the favorite choices of graphic designers, and learn the stories behind the fonts.
At My Fonts, you can also set your name in thousands of different typeface designs, and learn how to locate […]

Dec

21

Have you considered posters as marketing tools?

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It’s a snowy day in NH, and I was checking out recent tweets on Twitter.com, when I discovered a Guy Kawasaki reference to “great  typography,” which turned out to be Henry Jones’s 33 Amazing Typography Posters and Illustrations. I highly recommend a visit.
Seeing these examples reminded me of one of my first examples of poster […]

Nov

19

How to format numbers for instant recognition

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Should numbers be characters, or should they be spelled-out as words?
As I was reading today’s e-mail, I ran across a phrase that caught my eye:

“features six world-class experts who instruct you on the various activities involved.”

The phrase reminded me of a presentation by direct marketing legend Herschel Gordon Lewis at an AWAI bootcamp where […]

Dec

27

Help for choosing the right typeface designs

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I’ve long been a fan of Jim Krause’s “Idea Index” series of books. Individual volumes in this small format/high-inspiration series focus on offering pragmatic advice for graphic designers looking for quick help and inspiration in working with color, layout, and photographs.
Now, there’s Type Idea Index: The designer’s ultimate tool for choosing and using […]

Dec

4

Valuable new type book from Harltey & Marks

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Hartley & Marks publishes some of the world’s best books on type, including Robert Bringhurst’s highly acclaimed Elements of Typographic Style. (See required reading)
Graphic designers and desktop publishers will be pleased to hear that they have recently published another “must have” typographic reference book, Robin Dodd’s From Gutenberg to Open Type.
The large format From […]

Oct

27

Publisher tip: reduce word spacing in headlines

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One of the best ways to improve the appearance of headlines is to slightly reduce word spacing. You can set up text styles to do this automatically in programs like InDesign, but you have to do this yourself in Microsoft Publisher.
After you finish editing and formatting your headline in a large type size, one […]

Oct

23

Microsoft Publisher versus Adobe InDesign, Pt. 4

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Another advantage Adobe InDesign offers over Microsoft Publisher is InDesign’s support of the Open Type font format. Open Type is an easier to use and easier to manage alternative to Adobe’s previous Type1 font format. Open Type, for example, makes it easier to insert typographic refinements like old style figures and true small caps. related […]

Oct

22

Fred Showker’s 12th Annual Fall Fonts Festival

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Fred Showker’s Design & Publishing site is one of my favorites, and I find myself spending increasing time there.
The quality of Fred’s design explorations can be seen in the wide range of resources he profiles in his 2006 Fall Fonts Festival. There are some truly great links, including my favorites, the SchoolFonts site and […]

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