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14 More Beautiful Free Fonts For Your Designs
Posted: January 20th, 10 Categories: Resources
Another collection of beautiful free fonts
Free Fonts, I know you love them! I got a few emails from our readers saying they want to see more posts like my previous article 24 Beautiful Free Fonts For Your Designs. So I have handpicked another 14 beautiful free fonts for your personal or even commercial design projects.
Typography Eye Candy
Posted: January 8th, 10 Categories: Inspiration
Typography Eye Candy
Do you love Typography? I sure do. I enjoy beautiful typography works because they are one of my inspiration resources. So I have hand picked 7 Awesome Typography Artworks from Bechance. Come in and check out more images and Get Inspired!
Easy Text Replacement Solution with Typekit + Invitations Giveaway
Posted: November 4th, 09 Categories: Tips & Tricks
Text replacement with Typekit
Thinking about using Rich Typography in your web design? There are quite a few text replacement techniques such as: Image Replacement, Flash Replacement, JavaScript, PHP, and @font-face Font Embedding. The most commonly used solutions that you might have heard of are Cufón, sIFR, Typeface.js, P+C DTR... Each method has its advantages and disadvantages. Difficulty is one of the most important reason that keep web designers from using those text replacement methods.
Typekit is a service that let you easily embed both free and commercial fonts to your web design.Web designers don't need to worry about font copyright issues when using Typekit. Because Typekit has been working with foundries to develop a consistent web-only font linking license.
Although Typekit is still in beta, I got an Invite couple weeks ago. Let me walk you through, and find out if Typekit is right for you. I will give a way two Typekit Invites BTW.
System Fonts in Popular Smartphone OS
Posted: October 28th, 09 Categories: Tech & Gadgets
Smartphone OS Fonts
Smartphones get all the buzz in the tech community nowadays. There are all kinds of smartphones on the market such as Symbian OS, iPhone OS, BlackBerry OS, Windows Mobile OS, Palm WebOS and Android OS... Besides the hardware specs differences, there are many mobile Operating system choices. Wither is the ease of use, beautiful User Interface (UI), or third party add-ons / apps, the OS is one of the most important deciding point.
Have you paid attention to the typography in Smartphone User Interface?
Have you ever wondered what fonts are used in popular Smartphone Operating Systems?
Let's find out in this article.
24 Beautiful Free Fonts For Your Designs
Posted: October 16th, 09 Categories: Resources
A collection of beautiful free fonts
Free Fonts are always welcomed by designers.
I have been reading some great articles and found some beautifully designed free fonts.
For your convenience, I have hand picked 24 beautiful high-quality
free fonts for Your designs.