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Tie-pography

Mirko — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:12:39 +0000

Two things can be said for sure about Ed Nacional:

He own a lot of ties
He is really talented

Hi tie-pography project does at least suggest these two things. The font even looks quite good and has uppercase and lowercase letters, which was a lot of work for sure.

Stunning typographic work by Lotta Nieminen

Mirko — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:12:06 +0000

Ruuku, identity proposal for the finnish food culture center.

Lotta Nieminen is a finnish designer living and working in Helsinki. Her portfolio shows her skills in both graphic design and illustration, I’ve become a real fan of her use of typography in her graphic design work.

Identity and layout for Nolla, an environmental lifestyle magazine.

Poster and packaging design for Helsinki letters.

7 WordPress plugins to improve your blog’s typography

Mirko — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:04:17 +0000

Out of the box, WordPress doesn’t come with any typographic tools. If you are interested to improve your blog’s typography, you should definitely take a look at these WordPress plugins.

1. wp-Typography

Hyphenation, better spacing, intelligent character replacement and much more. Gain control over your WordPress blog’s typography.

2. Drop Caps

Easily add drop caps capabilities to your WordPress blog.

3. Font Burner

Plugin making it easy to add Font Burner fonts to any WordPress powered website.

4. Simple pull quotes

This plugin provides an easy way to include pull quotes.

5. jQuery font resizer

This one will not make your typography look nicer or better, but it will definitely make your blog more accessible.

6. WP Footnotes

Quickly add footnotes in your blog posts.

7. Title style

Use this plugin to wrap lowercase words, helpful if you want to automatically style parts of your headlines.

Random typographic inspiration

Mirko — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:43:52 +0000

If you are skeptic about the importance of typography in good graphic design, these gems of inspiration should help to convince you.

Graphos

A wonderful set of typographic playing cards.

Ryan Riegner

Discover his type words, really worth a look.

Herbert Kapitzki

Old but still modern looking type layouts by Herbert Kapitzki.

Typography wallpapers

And the best about it is, they’re all free!

Typographic poster

A gorgeous type poster.

Paper calligraphy

A beautiful gallery, type as art.

Film House logo

Cute typographic logo with a lovely color scheme.

10 free high-quality script fonts

Mirko — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:02:42 +0000

From time to time, script fonts can make your work look a bit different. Be happy, because there is many free script fonts available.

1. Marcelle

2. Porcelain

3. English

4. Jellyka

5. Blazing Italic

6. Chopin Script

7. BlackJack

8. Jacoba

9. Selfish

10. Ginga

Typographic inspiration for the week

Mirko — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:45:21 +0000

To kickstart the week there is nothing like a good roundup of typographic inspiration.

15 must-read typography articles

Mirko — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:09:22 +0000

Image by Jessica Hische from Daily Drop Cap.

In the past years typography related websites have been spreading across the web, providing an amazing amount of great resources for graphic designers and typography lovers. Here are some that I warmly recommend.

1. So you want to create a font? Part 1

Explanations about the process of font creation, basic methodology and software.

2. So you want to create a font? Part 2

Interesting looks on what to look for when creating a font.

3. 5 Principles And Ideas Of Setting Type On The Web

Some good insights and thoughts on working with web typography.

4. Taking Your Fonts to Market: Foundry, Reseller, or Go Solo?

If you have created some professional font, you should read this article before publishing it.

5. CSS Typography: Contrast Techniques, Tutorials and Best Practices

Interesting techniques and tips for CSS typography.

6. Typographic illustrations in Photoshop: 10 awesome tutorials

Good tutorials for creating typographic effects in Photoshop.

7. Typography in Motion

Amazing roundup of typography-related videos.

8. Type online

Ministry of Type take an in-depth look at solutions for the use of typography online.

9. 7 Rules for Mixing Multiple Fonts in Good Web Design

Great advice for better typography on the web.

10. 15 objects with typography

A collection of wonderful objects that make a great use of typography.

11. 40 Inspiring High Quality Typographic Wallpapers

Want to get some awesome typography on your computer’s desktop? Take a look at this post.

12. Breathtaking Typographic Posters

Great roundup of gorgeous typographic posters.

13. 10 Web Typography Rules Every Designer Should Know

More rules for better web typography.

14. Web design is 95% typography

Must-read article to understand the importance of good typography in web design.

15. Typography Matters

Another great article on the importance of good web typography.

20 great free fonts for designers

Mirko — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:46:30 +0000

While free fonts rarely compete with professional ones, it can be useful to own some of the good free typography that’s available on the web to diversify the type used in your work. The following fonts should be good choices.

1. Serif Beta

2. Molot

3. Delicious

4. QuickSand

5. Miso

6. CP Mono

7. M+ Font

8. Chunk

9. Kontrapunkt

10. Museo

11. Typo Latin Serif

12. Capricorn OSF

13. Often TF

14. FF Dagny OT Thin

15. Deja Vu

16. Bienetresocial

17. DuePuntoZero

18. Grandesign

19. Engel Light

20. Mank Sans

This is tomorrow

Mirko — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:34:07 +0000

Martin Plonka is an excellent graphic designer from Poland. He recently released a typefaces classification infography that got very popular, and he has some amazing typography experiments in his portfolio.

Awesome illustrative typographic experiments.

More typographic experiments.

Tania Alvarez

Mirko — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:17:12 +0000

Tania Alvarez has some quite amazing typographic work in her portfolio on Behance. Check it out.