10 Websites to Download Free Fonts

February 5th, 2012
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30 Free Western Fonts Collection

February 4th, 2012
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30 Free Western Fonts Collection

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15 Professional Fonts for Web and Graphic Designers

February 4th, 2012
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15 Professional Fonts for Web and Graphic Designers

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15 Valentine’s free fonts

February 4th, 2012
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15 Valentine’s free fonts

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4 Ways to Tweet as a Visual Brand

February 4th, 2012
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This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

Companies that rely on a visual or photographic web presence often find it difficult to convey their media on Twitter. Take, for instance, apparel brands that need… read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #138

February 3rd, 2012
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I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#138 and make sure to comeback… read more

Start Your Own Email Newsletter the Easy Way with TinyLetter

February 2nd, 2012
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Most of us have sent emails to multiple people at once, whether a holiday email to family or a marketing newsletter to fans and customers. Many of us have gotten emails with dozens of addresses at the top where the sender sent the email to their whole list by just… read more

Best of Tuts+ in January 2012

February 1st, 2012
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Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start!

Psdtuts+ — Photoshop Tutorials

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Quick Tip: Using Typography to Create a Lunar New Year Card

January 30th, 2012
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Vector Tuts

Lunar New Year is here! This red card was chosen as a Lunar New Year E-card because in Chinese culture the color red is auspicious and represents happiness or good luck. During Chinese New Year red packets are given out for luck and prosperity in the coming year. In this… read more

The Future Of Screen Typography Is In Your Hands

January 30th, 2012
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Smashing Magazine

We do more reading on the screen today than we did even a year ago. If we are ever to have a golden age of reading on the screen, this might be the start of it.

Tablets, Nooks and Kindles make buying a book or magazine for the screen almost unavoidable…. read more

15 Most Downloaded Free Typewriter Fonts For You

January 30th, 2012
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15 Most Downloaded Free Typewriter Fonts For You

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Cool Tattoo Fonts for Tattoo Writing Styles

January 29th, 2012
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Cool Tattoo Fonts for Tattoo Writing Styles

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8 High Quality and Free Icon Fonts Available for Embedding | gonzoblog.nl

January 28th, 2012
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8 High Quality and Free Icon Fonts Available for Embedding | gonzoblog.nl

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Friday Fresh Free Fonts #137

January 27th, 2012
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Abduzeedo

I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#137 and make sure to comeback… read more

Useful CSS Snippets for Your Coding Arsenal

January 27th, 2012
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CSS is a beautiful language but it can also be frustrating at times. Certain CSS solutions don’t work on certain browsers (cough Internet Explorer cough) and much of your time can be spent debugging code.

Thankfully there are lots of great CSS snippets available online that fix common problems and design… read more

iBooks Author: Multi-Touch Book Creation With a Big Catch

January 26th, 2012
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Mac App Storm

While it’s no secret that iBooks hasn’t been a runaway success as Apple had hoped, the company is trying their hand at revolutionizing the book industry once more -but this time they’ve shifted their efforts towards the education market. Along with the new iBooks 2, Apple introduced iBooks Author, their… read more

13 Important Resources for Learning How to Design Typefaces and Full Fonts

January 25th, 2012
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Vector Tuts

If you’re serious about creating a typeface design, then you’ll need some solid resources to get started. Learn effective typeface design workflows, how to take an initial spark of an idea from sketch, through Illustrator, into Fontlab, and then work your creation into a complete and custom font design. Here… read more

60+ Latest Logo Designs for Logo Design Inspiration

January 25th, 2012
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InstantShift

A Logo is a graphical element that, together with its logotype (a uniquely set and arranged typeface) form a trademark or commercial brand. Typically, a logo’s design is for immediate recognition. The logo is one aspect of a company’s commercial brand, or economic or academic entity, and its shapes, colors,… read more

10 New Fresh Free Fonts

January 25th, 2012
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25 New Fonts for Graphic & Web Designers – Download Now

January 25th, 2012
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25 New Fonts for Graphic & Web Designers – Download Now

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Blank & Bare WordPress HTML5 Frameworks

January 24th, 2012
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Blank & Bare WordPress HTML5 Frameworks

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Freebie: Colorful 3D UI Kit

January 24th, 2012
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We have a fantastic freebie for all of you web designers out there, you’ll love this:)
Designed by Land-of-Web, the Colorful 3D UI Kit comes in .psd format and is full of beautifully designed modern web elements covering almost all aspects of web design,… read more

10 New Free Fonts for Your Designs

January 24th, 2012
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Finding the perfect font for a project is a real challenge, and that is why we like to provide our readers with as much fonts as we can. We know that having a lot of options to choose from is very helpful, so today we gathered… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.117)

January 24th, 2012
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This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and kepp up to date with the latest and greatest articles and… read more

Typography With Extra Bold Fonts Free Download

January 22nd, 2012
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Quick Tip: How to Create Typographic Snowflakes

January 18th, 2012
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In this tutorial you will learn how to create a series of different snowflakes from letters. To achieve this effect you will use the Transform Effect on a single letter. You will easily be able to create a series of individual snowflakes, taking advantage of editable type and the variety… read more

Working with Professional Typography in Adobe Illustrator

January 18th, 2012
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I would like to dedicate this tutorial to typography, which are the methods of processing printed text for better legibility and beauty. Typography is composed through the graphic design of printed text using the specifics for that languages rules. In this Basix tutorial will be apply the typography methods and… read more

Benefits and Pitfalls of Using Code Frameworks

January 18th, 2012
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A code framework is nothing more than a collection of pre-formatted classes and functions. There are frameworks created for practically every language out there – even including frontend web development like JavaScript and CSS. Developers would be wise to follow these trends of working on… read more

FontAgent Pro Enterprise Server 5

January 17th, 2012
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Fast Font Serving

FontAgent Pro Enterprise Server is one of the fastest font servers I’ve used. This latest version uses the J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) architecture and is multithreaded to take advantage of multicore Macs. The actual server setup involves setting up users, groups, and permissions. The user permissions… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.116)

January 17th, 2012
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This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and kepp up to date with the latest and greatest articles and… read more

Resolution Independence With SVG

January 16th, 2012
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Smashing Magazine

In this article, we’ll look at Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), one of the most underused technologies in website development today.

Before diving into an example, let’s consider the state of the Web at present and where it is going. Website design has found new vigor in recent years, with the evolving technique… read more

4 Tips to Keep Your Website Ahead of the Curve in 2012

January 15th, 2012
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Mashable

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

Sure, having a website for your business serves a practical need: to draw net-surfing users to your product or service. However, it’s also much more than slapping… read more

Creative Use of Typography in Print Ads

January 13th, 2012
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When it comes to advertising, what’s being said can be a bit less important than how it’s said. In no case is this more true than in the case of typography based advertisements, which are common in print advertising and gaining popularity even in television… read more

40 CSS Reference Websites and Resources

January 13th, 2012
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Noupe

If you want to design websites or modify your existing website design, then you need to have at least a basic knowledge of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Thankfully, CSS is a very easy language to get to a grip on, however you may find it takes a little more time… read more

Usability Design for Online Web Forms

January 12th, 2012
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Web Design Ledger

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Designers aren’t just creating pleasing graphics for the Internet anymore. As a web designer you need to consider other properties of user interaction and coding. UX design is possibly the most important topic to cover, and this is especially true designing web forms. All webmasters should… read more

These aren’t the fonts you’re looking for…

January 9th, 2012
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The other day I was on location with a customer, and as they are a secure site I was not allowed to bring my laptop any further than the security locker at the font desk. This I don’t mind as I would usually just leave… read more

Why a Web designer Should not Ignore the Importance of HTML5 in Designing

January 9th, 2012
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The answer to the question; why a web designer should not ignore the importance of HTML5 in designing is actually very simple. HTML5 is the language of the future when it comes to web designing. Move over Flash, HTML5 is here. But why is this language being… read more

How to Add Decorative Glamour to Your Ordinary Script Font

January 6th, 2012
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Vector Tuts

Sometimes you need to go a little bit wild with your typography. In these cases, you can either take the easy way and choose a fancy font from some of the free font site like Dafont or Urban Fonts, or get creative and give some extra sparkle to your ordinary… read more

The Top 25 WordPress Themes Of 2011

January 6th, 2012
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Noupe

One could argue that every year the WordPress platform gets better and better, and 2011 was no different with the release of three major updates: WordPress 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3. We have seen the addition of post formats, advanced taxonomy and custom fields queries, an improved import and export system,… read more

40 Effectively Designed Non-Profit and Charity Web Sites

January 6th, 2012
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Specky Boy

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A charity or cause may not need the sleek sales pages of a business on the web, but a poorly designed one could still mean the difference between helping people or failing to do so. Therefore, a non profit website design should be appealing enough… read more

Stupid Guide of Choosing Web Fonts

January 6th, 2012
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Stupid Guide of Choosing Web Fonts

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The Best Free and High-Quality Fonts of 2011 [Compilation] | gonzoblog.nl

January 6th, 2012
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Create the Ultimate Landing Page With Unbounce

January 5th, 2012
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Launching a new product or service via the web is no easy task in today’s fast-paced market. There’s plenty of competition and many variables involved in determining whether yours will be a success or failure. One of the metrics marketers use to determine how well their promotional web pages are… read more

10 Fresh Free Fonts

January 5th, 2012
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Web Design Ledger

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There are tons of remarkable free fonts out there, and helping you find them is something we really like to do. Since we know that having great fonts to count on is very important we decided to start the year presenting you a few fresh free… read more

Best of the Vector Web – December 2011

January 2nd, 2012
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Vector Tuts

Each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy. This month, we showcase high quality tutorials on creating cubist style logos, speeding up your work in Illustrator and InDesign, and more. We have loads of tutorials, in addition to… read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #133

December 30th, 2011
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Abduzeedo

I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#133 and make sure to comeback… read more

Our Top 20 Posts from 2011

December 30th, 2011
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Specky Boy

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2011 has been Speckyboy’s best year yet in terms of growth. More great readers and followers, more great authors, more great sponsors. However, at the core is (hopefully) great content here on Speckyboy. And just to recap some of our best content, here are our… read more

Best Of 2011: 50 Free Fonts To Enhance Your Designs

December 29th, 2011
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Smashing Apps

Since 2011 is just about to end so we though, this would be the perfect time to showcase some of the best fonts that we have seen in 2011 lately. In this collection, we have gathered 50 latest free fonts from 2011 that can truly enhance your designs. We all… read more

10 Awesome Free Web Fonts

December 29th, 2011
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10 Awesome Free Web Fonts

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Best Usable Free Fonts of 2011

December 28th, 2011
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Best Usable Free Fonts of 2011

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30+ Cool & Fresh Free Fonts For Your Next Design

December 27th, 2011
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30+ Cool & Fresh Free Fonts For Your Next Design

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15+ Illustrator Tutorials on Retro Text Effects and Vintage Lettering

December 27th, 2011
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If you’re looking to improve your skills in Illustrator, specifically learn to create retro text effects, beautiful vintage lettering, and work with classic type, then we have the collection of Illustrator tutorials you’re looking for. Learn to draw fluid, retro lettering, compose vintage designs with classic fonts, and transform your… read more

Fonts Used In Logo of Popular Websites (Part 2)

December 26th, 2011
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Fonts Used In Logo of Popular Websites (Part 2)

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Best Of 2011: Best Useful jQuery Plugins And Tutorials

December 26th, 2011
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Smashing Apps

jQuery is one of the most accepted JavaScript library that possesses an enormous collection of plugins which makes it even more powerful. On the other hand, there is a good deal of additional codes or modules, from simple alert functions to multifaceted galleries or form validation methods, that are hard-coded… read more

50 Fantastic Premium Business WordPress Themes From 2011

December 22nd, 2011
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Noupe

Whilst Joomla and Drupal are popular amongst website designers, WordPress is by far the number 1 used CMS in the world. Which is one of the reasons that WordPress themes are seen as such a hot commodity these days in the design world.

It’s popularity amongst design firms could explain the… read more

Read Better With Readings

December 22nd, 2011
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Web App Storm

There is little innovation happening in the online news reader space. I am so jealous at the awesome apps like Google Currents, Flipboard, Pulse, and more that push the envelop for reading on a tablet. After mercilessly slaughtering the usability of the Google Reader web app, Google came up with… read more

[Freebies] High Quality Editable Web Button Set

December 21st, 2011
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InstantShift

Icons are very essential in almost any web project. Effective use of icons can easily help bridge connection between the user and the website. Websites, specially blogs and community sites, normally use icons to add action links to their site. No matter you hate or love icons, whether you want… read more

10 Holly Jolly Christmas Fonts

December 20th, 2011
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10 Holly Jolly Christmas Fonts

With Christmas right around the corner, now’s the time that you realize you haven’t sent out your yearly Christmas card. Or it has just dawned on you that you haven’t sent out the invitations for Christmas dinner. Let’s have a look at ten free Christmas-themed fonts… read more

Best Android Apps Useful for Web Designers

December 20th, 2011
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InstantShift

It is mesmerizing to see such high end developments in the field of technology. Perhaps one of the most scintillating advancements has taken place in the field of web services for mobile phones. Earlier it was considered as a luxury to own mobile phones and now even the young adolescents… read more

22 Last Minute Holiday Gift Ideas for Freelancers

December 19th, 2011
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Freelanceswitch

Santa will be going down the chimney soon. We’re running out of time to give those perfect gifts to freelancers. Shipping will only get more expensive as we get closer to the big present opening morning. The clock is ticking and the days are running down. There are plenty… read more

Create a 3D Grungy Text Effect in Illustrator

December 19th, 2011
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Vector Tuts

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a grungy, 3D text effect. Learn how to draw highlights and shadows on your text to give it that 3D punch. Then design grunge effects using blending modes and other Illustrator tools. This grungy text effect is relatively simple to… read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #131

December 16th, 2011
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Abduzeedo

I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#131 and make sure to comeback… read more

Nine Excellent (Yet Free) Online Word Cloud Generators

December 15th, 2011
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Smashing Apps

There are many online word cloud generator out there for web users, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing Nine Excellent (Yet Free) Online Word Cloud Generators. Read each entry in the list and see which one suits your needs… read more

Kindle Fire Owners Love Their Tablet, Flaws and All

December 15th, 2011
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Mashable

Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet is no Apple iPad — and it seems that most Fire owners are quite okay with that.

In a recent open thread on Mashable regarding the product’s recent troubles, freshly minted Kindle Fire owners shared their stories — and mostly, love — for what could end… read more

Best Of 2011: Ultimate Collection Of High Quality Photoshop Tutorials

December 13th, 2011
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Smashing Apps

Every so often, you may discover it complicated to search for some of the highest quality Photoshop tutorials by means of search engines. Seeing that most of time, approximately all tutorials would tag themselves to be excellent, high quality or even the best Photoshop tutorial you can get. When exploring… read more

Web Design Trends in 2012

December 13th, 2011
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Web Design Ledger

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It’s that time of year again, where we look into our crystal ball to see what will be the hot trends in web design for the upcoming year. It’s no secret that trends come and go, with some hanging around longer than they should. (Yes, splash… read more

20 Best Free Fonts From 2011

December 13th, 2011
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12 New And Free Fonts For Your Design

December 13th, 2011
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12 New And Free Fonts For Your Design

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‘Comic Sans Project’ Seeks to Save the Web’s Most Hated Font

December 12th, 2011
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Mashable

1. Tumblr

The Tumblr logo itself is re-imagined with the Comic Sans treatment.

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15+ Best Desktop Publishing Resources and Beginner Tips

December 12th, 2011
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Freelanceswitch

Desktop publishing has become a critical business skill today, and the use of the Internet means that creation of print content is no longer the only consideration.

Now the documents you create likely have to be displayed in both print and on the web.

This article looks at how to determine… read more

80+ New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

December 12th, 2011
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Mashable

Last week was a busy one for social media. In fact, Christmas might have come early for you with the reveal of Twitter’s new design and the long-awaiting roll-out of Facebook’s Timeline. If you were left indecisive about which shiny new toy to play with first, we have all the… read more

10 Cool Fonts That You Should Use

December 11th, 2011
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10 Cool Fonts That You Should Use

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Friday Fresh Free Fonts #130

December 9th, 2011
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Abduzeedo

I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#130 and make sure to comeback… read more

Best Free UI PSDs of 2011

December 9th, 2011
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Web Design Ledger

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So far in our Best of 2011 series, we’ve shown you our picks for the best free fonts and the best jQuery plugins. For this week, we’ve went back through all the UI PSDs that’s been released over the past year and picked our favorites. We… read more

MoreDays: Plan Your Life With Style the Fun Way

December 8th, 2011
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Web App Storm

Planning makes life easy. In fact, a  lot of us plan things ahead using the best technique we know or works for us. So planning isn’t the problem. General laziness and short attention spans are some some of few reasons things that were planned in advance do not get done…. read more

Solo: An Artsy Project Manager (with a giveaway!)

December 7th, 2011
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Web App Storm

The world of web apps is over-saturated with project management apps. It often seems like the only new apps you hear about are new project management, time tracking, or invoicing apps. There’s only so many ways you can design an app for the same purpose, and so many project managers look like… read more

The 50 Most Useful jQuery Plugins from 2011

December 7th, 2011
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Specky Boy

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What an exciting web development year we have had (OK, its not quite finished, but almost). HTML5 and CSS3 have forced there way into the mainstream, responsive layouts techniques are rapidly moving towards being the standard, sites like Dribble, Forrst and GitHub have offered a… read more

How to Draw a Vector, Music Folder Icon

December 6th, 2011
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Vector Tuts

Read this tutorial and learn how to draw a music folder icon in Illustrator. We’ll use the 3D Revolve tool and Extrude & Bevel effects. They are put into use throughout the entire workflow, starting from shaping a 3D folder using a single path and finishing with all the colorful… read more

Best Fonts: Best Free Fonts For Designers

December 6th, 2011
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Best Fonts: Best Free Fonts For Designers

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Daily Inspiration #997

December 5th, 2011
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Abduzeedo

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users.
If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

20 Beautiful Free Christmas Decorative Fonts

December 5th, 2011
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20 Beautiful Free Christmas Decorative Fonts

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50 Fresh and Beautiful Free Fonts from 2011

December 4th, 2011
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50 Fresh and Beautiful Free Fonts from 2011

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How to Use Script Fonts in Design Projects

December 3rd, 2011
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How to Use Script Fonts in Design Projects

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Friday Fresh Free Fonts #129

December 2nd, 2011
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Abduzeedo

I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#129 and make sure to comeback… read more

The Politics of Typography

December 2nd, 2011
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InstantShift

Graphic designers will already appreciate the important role of typography in delivering a message, and that throughout the ages the character and form of typography has often reflected the historical and political spirit of the epoch in which it was created.

While the use, context and meaning of different typefaces often… read more

40 Beautiful Free HTML5 & CSS3 Templates

December 1st, 2011
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Noupe

Over the last few years there has been great collections of quality free HTML & CSS templates published on Noupe such as 50 Free High-Quality and “New” (X)HTML/CSS Templates (2009) and 40+ Elegant Free CSS/(X)HTML Templates (2010).

There have been some great free templates released over the last year so… read more

Mega Design Elements – Mega Fonts, Headers & Footers

December 1st, 2011
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Mega Design Elements – Mega Fonts, Headers & Footers

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Best of the Vector Web – November 2011

November 30th, 2011
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Vector Tuts

Each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy. This month, we showcase high quality tutorials on creating interactive magazines in InDesign, which are destined for the iPad. We also work with basic geometric shapes in Illustrator, learn the… read more