Fonts

Free For All: Winter Holidays Edition

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

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

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

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

TypeTalk: Distorting Type

Are you tempted to stretch or squeeze letters, perhaps to make a headline or subhead fit better? Don't do it!

Extensis Suitcase Fusion 2 Now Windows 7-Compatible

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

Use Real Fonts on Web Sites

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

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

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

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

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

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!

TypeTalk: Find Figure Styles in OpenType Fonts

To designers' delight, many typefaces include several kinds of numbers: oldstyle, lining, tabular, and proportional. But how do you discover which fonts have which styles?

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

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

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

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

19 Top Combos of the 19 Top Typefaces

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

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

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!

TypeTalk: Times Roman vs Times New Roman

What's old, what's new, and what's what when you're talking about Times?