Awesoome: typography

29 Ekim 2013 Salı

Awesome 15 Inspirational Typograhy and Font Blogs

It is very easy to design a great looking site, but more often than not we forget/ignore the typography. These sites below offer great advice, tips, inspiration and all are a darn good read. I think most of you would have heard about I Love Typography, which is one of my daily reads, as is The FontFeed (I love the web design as well), but the rest might be new to you.

Some tackle CSS styling and others inspiration, but overall they are all good and worth a visit.

1. I Love Typography (http://ilovetypography.com/)

2. The FontFeed (http://www.fontshop.com/fontfeed/)

3. Font Lover (http://www.fontlover.com/)

4. TypeNeu (http://www.typeneu.com/)

5. Typographica (http://typographica.org/)

6. Fontleech (http://fontleech.com/)

7. Nice Web Type (http://nicewebtype.com/)

8. Type For You (http://www.typeforyou.org/)

9. Mark Simonson (http://www.marksimonson.com/)

10. Not a Weblog (http://www.re-type.com/notaweblog/)

And the rest…

11.Letritas (http://letritas.blogspot.com/) Spanish.

12.Graphic Design, Art, Typography and Architecture (http://redsil.com/blog/).

13.Typography For Headlines (http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/typography-for-headlines.php).

14.Font Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/fontblog/).

15.Swiss Legacy (http://www.swisslegacy.com/).

Awesome 11 Amazing Tutorials combining Great Typography and Skillful Vector art

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11 Amazing tutorials with a combination of great Typography and skillful Vector art (a marriage made in heaven).

1. Type within type

VIA: ComputerArts.
Snippet: “Type within type is an interesting typographical effect that is very easy to create in InDesign. Before you start, think about which fonts you want to combine, and perhaps do a little experimentation. Also consider whether you intend the text inside to be readable – you could use it instead to create a typographical pattern.”

2. Colorful Typography

VIA: Photoshop Garden.
Snippet: “An easy to follow tut that will create an amazing combination of color, vector and typography.”

3. Design and make a portfolio book

VIA: ComputerArts.
Snippet: “This tutorial shows you how to use Adobe InDesign to create a simple grid-based layout for an A5 portfolio book which will make your work shine.”

4. Ornate Lettering Tutorial 2

VIA: Gomediazine.
Snippet: “The purpose of this tutorial is to give you an insight into my workflow and inspire you to create your own lettering. Have fun!”

5. Big Typography Snowboarding Poster

VIA: myInkBlog.
Snippet: “Big typography has always inspired me, so making a tutorial on this was something that I welcomed with open arms.”

6. Letterhead design

VIA: ComputerArts.
Snippet: “In this tutorial I show you how to lay out an A4 letterhead, choose type sympathetic to a company’s logo, and select paper stocks and print techniques.”

7. Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography

VIA: Abduzeedo.
Snippet: “In this tutorial I will show you how to mix some vectors with letters to create a really nice design.”

8. Masking with type

VIA: ComputerArts.
Snippet: “Illustrator’s masking tools have long been a powerful part of its feature set. Here Martin Fewell shows you how to use masked images with typography to create an eye-catching illustration.”

9. Distorted type effects

VIA: ComputerArts.
Snippet: “Organic digital effects are hugely popular at the moment, so it’s a good time to dig out Illustrator’s Distort tools and use them to add an unusual dimension to your work.”

10. Trendy Graffiti Text Tutorial

VIA: DeviantArt.
Snippet: “Make trendy graffiti in Illustrator…”

11. Logo Design Project Walkthrough

VIA: SpoonGraphics.
Snippet: “A personal project I’m currently working on with a developer friend is a website called myNiteLife. As part of the overall design process one of the first jobs of the project was to develop a logo and brand for the website…”

Awesome 42 Amazing Resources for Inspirational Typography

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There are many theories to what constitutes good typography, its not as simple as choosing an appropriate font and setting it in the style of a particular project, that would be too easy. Theories and tutorials are one thing, putting typography into perfect practice is another, and is perhaps the hardest part of any design. Every designer you ask will give you a different answer to what constitutes good type, where is the benchmark?
Below you will find the best typography sites, rich full of inspiration, tutorials, theories, free fonts, good practices… everything you could possibly need related to typography.