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Fonts on Friday: Influenced by the '70s

News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on May 18, 2012

Bookmania and Herbie

Fonts on Friday: Crafty Handmade Fonts

News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on May 11, 2012

Knit, Sown, Grown, Bent, and more!

Is There a Creativity Gap?

News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on May 8, 2012

Adobe study finds 75% are not realizing their creative potential.

Type How-To: A River Runs Through It

How-Tos: Written by James Felici on May 2, 2012

Rivers are eye-catching cracks in text formed by meandering trails of word spaces running from one line to the next. Here’s why they happen, how to avoid them, and how to fix them.

Font Bureau's Readability Series Goes Retail

News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on April 26, 2012

Previously only available to private clients, now available to public

Don Quixote, Wilco, Illustrator, Veer — and You

News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on April 25, 2012

T-shirt design contest with all of the above will benefit non-profit.

Extensis Updates Suitcase Fusion

News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on April 22, 2012

Version includes new browsing panels

Fonts on Friday: Food Fonts

News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on April 20, 2012

It's the real thing: cookies, chocolate, candy, pasta, and soup!

Fonts on Friday: Nothing Fancy

News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on April 13, 2012

Regular and Prosto

InDesign Font Plug-in Lets You Try Before You Buy

News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on April 12, 2012

FontGazer connects to Fonts.com database of 150,000+ fonts

Fonts on Friday: Decorative Display Type

News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on April 6, 2012

Fancy Antique Display, Metropolis 1920, Muirside

The State of E-book Typography

Features: Written by James Felici on April 4, 2012

Whether on Kindle, iPad, Nook, or other LCD display, type suffers compared to print. So is good typography even possible for today’s electronic devices? From the standpoint of the craft’s two underlying principles — legibility and readability — the answer is "no."

The "Original" Helvetica

News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on April 3, 2012

Font Bureau releases Neue Haas Grotesk

Case Study: Designing a New Logo

Features: Written by Thomas Phinney on April 2, 2012

What goes into developing a new typographic logo? Where do you start? How do you know what works — and what doesn't? Follow along as the company Extensis refreshes its branding with a new logotype.

Fonts on Friday: Geometry and Line

News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on March 30, 2012

Frustro, Lineo, and Moav

A Font "Dating" Game

News: Written on March 27, 2012

Test your skills as a type matchmaker.

Fonts on Friday: Three indie typefaces to add to your collection

News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on March 23, 2012

Abraham Lincoln, L.C. Smith, and Malleable Grotesque

Fonts on Friday: Three Indie Typefaces to Add to Your Collection

News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on March 23, 2012

Abraham Lincoln, L.C. Smith, and Malleable Grotesque

"The History of Graphic Design" Comes to iPad

News: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on March 19, 2012

Study aids for Meggs' definitive textbook also available.

Free For All: Photo and Font Resources, plus Pinterest

Features: Written by Pariah Burke on March 19, 2012

We have five new stock photo sites, 10 new font sources, an indispensable Photoshop add-on, and a pitch for Pinterest. Did we mention cupcakes? All for free, of course.

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