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Free For All: Winter Holidays Edition

Features: Written by Pariah Burke on November 18, 2009

Whatever winter event you're designing for, you'll want these free fonts, clip art, stock photos, and WordPress and Blogger templates.

Web Fonts: The Experts Speak

News: Written by Terri Stone on November 17, 2009

Imagine you could design a Web site using typefaces beyond the boring usual system font choices and be sure viewers would see what you intended.

A Question of Character: Finding What You Need in Your Fonts, Part 2

Features: Written by James Felici on November 16, 2009

Everything you wanted to know about Unicode but didn’t know whom to ask. Bonus: A cheat sheet for instantly creating such characters as fractions; up and down arrows; and open and filled circles and squares.

FlipFont Adds Fonts, Features, & Phones

News: Written on November 12, 2009

Monotype Imaging debuts 10 new fonts and enhances its FlipFont mobile font solution with expanded availability, new application features and new phone support.

Extensis Suitcase Fusion 2 Now Windows 7-Compatible

News: Written on November 11, 2009

The popular font manager adds compatibility with the latest Microsoft operating system.

Use Real Fonts on Web Sites

News: Written on November 11, 2009

Typekit bills itself as the "easiest way to use real fonts on the web." It's now out of beta and open to everyone.

New Type Suite Is a Study in Contrasts

News: Written on November 10, 2009

ITC Chino is a newly released suite of 12 designs that range from fanciful, script-like display fonts, to typefaces with a decidedly judicious demeanor.

Type Luminaries Speak on PRI

News: Written by Terri Stone on November 5, 2009

Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones, Matthew Carter, and Tracy Honn discuss typefaces past and present in a recent episode of "To the Best of Our Knowledge." Thanks to the Internet, you can listen to it right now!

New Fonts from Independent Foundries

News: Written on November 4, 2009

These two new typefaces are thoughtfully designed. Premiéra was created with small sizes in mind; Ingeborg is a Modern face that's readable at any size.

Mega Prizes for Veer's Logo Contest

News: Written on November 4, 2009

Retailer Veer will give a grand prize package worth almost $8,000 to the winning re-creation of the Veer logo using real-world objects or materials.

Free For All: Photoshop Brushes, Fonts, and Image Tools

Features: Written by Pariah Burke on October 30, 2009

One free online tool lets you easily extract colors from images and share them. Another resizes, renames, and convert folders full of images. I also have lots of free Photoshop brushes and fonts -- everyone's favorites!

A Question of Character: Finding What You Need in Your Fonts, Part 1

Features: Written by James Felici on October 26, 2009

As fonts get larger, finding the characters you need keeps getting more complicated. Here's a chart that gives keyboard shortcuts for the degree symbol, multiplication sign, the cents sign, and much more.

Extensis Universal Type Server 2 Improves Font Compliance Management, Updates OS Compatibility

News: Written on October 23, 2009

The 2.1 update to the font server adds functionality, administrator enhancements, and compatibility with the Apple Snow Leopard and Microsoft Windows 7 operating systems.

Mrs Eaves Gets a Hubby

News: Written on October 21, 2009

Type foundry Émigré has released the typefaces Mr Eaves Sans and Mr Eaves Modern.

19 Top Combos of the 19 Top Typefaces

News: Written by Terri Stone on October 20, 2009

Would you pair Helvetica with Garamond? What about Minion with Gill Sans or FF Din with Baskerville? Check out the list and let us know what you think!

TypeStyler for Mac OS X Finally Ships

News: Written on October 19, 2009

TypeStyler, which creates special effects using PostScript and TrueType fonts, now runs natively on Intel Macs in both Leopard and Snow Leopard, as well as on PowerPC Macs running Tiger or Leopard.

Free For All: An Awesome Assortment

Features: Written by Pariah Burke on October 19, 2009

Turn your handwriting into a font, get photos, add a store to a Web site, keep track of keyboard shortcuts, and add cartoon bubbles to Photoshop files. And as always, all for free!

New Typeface Family Well-Suited to Newspapers, Periodicals

News: Written on October 12, 2009

Monotype Library's Ysobel Pro typeface suite has the soft, inviting letter shapes of Century Schoolbook but contrasts these with more angular serifs.

One Good Kern Deserves Another

How-Tos: Written by James Felici on October 12, 2009

Evening out the spaces between characters is a matter of finding the right rhythm, then going with the flow.

P22 Gets Spooky

News: Written on October 8, 2009

This chilling new font is evocative of the type in horror films and posters.

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