Type Design Features

Best of the Blogs: November 4, 2011

This circumnavigation of the blogosphere includes posts about fonts (best, worst, and missing), color correction (Photoshop curves and/or levels), paper (handmade and mill run), printers (desktop and press), color calibration (monitor and printer), and an impressive if controversial demo of photo-deblurring technology. Plus, job hunting tips and product how-tos.

Best of the Blogs: September 21, 2011

Lately, there have been a lot of provocative questions in design and photography blogs: Are there rules for creativity? Can designers embrace fear? What's the difference between looking at and seeing typography? But there's less cerebral stuff, too, like upgrading your camera, understanding image compositing, observing the day of a graphic designer, and filling your layouts with hipster lingo. I bring you all of that content and more in this installment of Best of the Blogs.

Marrying Types: All in the Family

For many designs, the typographic variety afforded by a single typeface family is enough. And maybe more than enough.

Best of the Blogs: August 15, 2011

It's an excellent round-up this time, with Photoshop tips, typography tricks, publishing news, and much more. And read to the end to find out why you'll soon be speccing shades of orange as Apu, Garfield, or Tigger.

Best of the Blogs: August 1, 2011

Amuse and inform yourself with tidbits from design, graphics, and photography blogs culled from the past few weeks. Find out about Bodoni love, InDesign crashes, Illustrator annoyances, Photoshop freakouts, and how to make Polaroid film and illustrated manuscripts (but not at the same time).

The Typographic Style Bible, 75 Years Later

A look at the 1937 Manual of Style shines a fascinating light on the origins of today's typographic trends and practices.

Free For All: Won't Cost You a Penny

The amazing Internet once again yields a crop of freebies so good that you'd pay for them--but you don't have to! These free resources help you to make your own fonts, snag stock photos, watermark images, track your to-do's, and annotate Web pages.

Best of the Blogs: July 7, 2011

Mega-retailer Target meets tiny Hamilton Wood Type; Acrobat Pro X users get testy; photographers are called idiots; Photoshop warps girls' minds; and the Web is doomed. Read these and many other interesting tidbits culled from the past few weeks of design, graphics, and photography blog posts.

Best of the Blogs: June 23, 2011

Here's what you may have missed in the blogosphere over the last few weeks: an homage to the golden age of script lettering, photography tutorials, solutions for prying open ancient Word files, Web typography tips, and strategies for self-marketing. Plus Oprah!

The Sweet Sound of Punctuation

While punctuation gives text rhythm, some beats are more familiar than others. Learn how to play the music in InDesign.

Best of the Blogs, June 6, 2011

Here's what you may have missed in design and photography blogs during the past few weeks: an investigation of Adobe Myriad; a rallying cry for FreeHand; ideas for busting design and illustration roadblocks; a new social networking site for creatives; and much more.

Best of the Blogs: May 19, 2011

Here's what you may have missed in design and photography blogs during the past couple of weeks: a new "pay-what-you-want" font source; a compilation of LinkedIn groups for publishers; an expert discussion about resume design; a Photoshop technique to fake tilt-shift photography; and much more.

Best of the Blogs: April 21, 2011

Here's what you may have missed in the blogosphere over the past few weeks. Get tips for caring for you camera, fending off pushy designers, and taming that pesky Illustrator. Peer into the InDesign dreams (or nightmares) of designers and see the first digital camera ever. Get up close and personal with Roger Black, Matthew Carter, and Jonathan Ive. And watch video clips of print jobs gone awry. Just think "Pink!"

Best of the Blogs: March 16, 2011

If you don't have time to keep up with all the great blogs for creative professionals, let us help. "Best of the Blogs" is a new recurring feature that compiles the most interesting items posted in our favorite blogs.

Apps for the Mobile Creative: Part 2

Creatives on the go need to stay creative. You can do that with apps that let you view and create color palettes; designing and identifying fonts; plan and control photo shoots; and keep mobile devices safe and secure.

Good Things in Small Packages

When you're setting type, small capitals have two important roles to play: one graphic and one editorial.

Free For All: Because We Love You

Fonts, email newsletter templates, InDesign scripts, and more are all yours free for the taking.

Type History: What a Difference a Century Makes

A guide to advertising types from 1909 casts a light on what makes a classic display face.

Free For All: Freebies from Us to You

Unwrap these free templates, textures, tileable patterns, and fonts.

Easy as Pi

Symbol fonts don't just offer hard-to-find characters, they open whole graphic worlds at the tap of a key.