Written by: Tony Gentile
Verb Typeface: A Must Have Font For Every Designer

While most people probably don’t give fonts a second thought, Graphic designers view the world through their font-colored glasses.

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Written by: Tony Gentile
60 Gorgeous And Creative Free Fonts For Designers

Welcome to day 3 of freebie week on Designrfix. Today we have assembled an amazing collection of some of the most gorgeous and creative free fonts for designers. So if you are in search of some really cool free fonts for your latest project, this post is not to be missed. Feel free to download and use them in your next design. Hope you like them and tune in tomorrow for the next installment of freebies!

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Written by: Nataly Birch
33 Unique And Creative Free Fonts

When you create a design project, typography is one of the first things that you take into consideration. Sometimes amazing illustrations or professional photo manipulations can’t deliver a proper message to the audience, whereas simple text can do a great job even without tricks. That is why, generally, well thought typography is an essential part of any design. With a great variety of tools and instruments that can be used to build a new typeface, font can easily and effectively create a necessary atmosphere being at the same time illustrative and decorative.

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Written by: PrinterInks
Awesome Fonts You Can Add to Your Website Using Cufon and Sifr

Designing a website is a massive job. Do you design it how you like it or how you think other people will like it? One of the most important factors is the font, making sure that it is easy to read yet bold and eye-catching. Here is a run down of awesome fonts you can add to your website using Cufon and sIFR.

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Written by: Amanda Kidd
Color Issues Associated With Typography

Typography is considered very important for designers. Considerable amount of time is involved and is devoted towards finding the right font, spacing and size. Suitable color combination is also a major aspect to be considered for designers. A right combination of color and typography gives the project the final and correct shape and design.

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Written by: Nina Wu
Arial vs. Helvetica

Typography is a fine art form. To the untrained eye, it seems like there are about 40 unique fonts with identical copies abound that make up the hundreds of fonts in existence. However, typographers are a keen type and there are small differentiating features that when combined, result in a finely-crafted and unique font. As commoners, we may not be able to pinpoint the specific differences between two fonts, but we can often sense that there’s a difference, even if it’s minute. We may even be drawn to one over another, and are not quite sure why.

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Written by: Pratima Paliwal
Fonts To Use Or Avoid In Web Design: 10 Great Examples

There are several factors to be considered while designing a website and selecting appropriate types of font constitutes a major decision as whatever content is written must be easy on eyes and readable. It is often observed that designers, in order to make the site visually attractive, choose a stylish font but which offers poor readability. Such a mistake leads to negative effect; it can even result in high bounce rate. Thus a Font must be carefully selected which provides good readability and aesthetic appeal.

Different varieties of Fonts are available for free but here we are going to mention those that can add value to a site having excellent characteristics. In addition to this, we will dwell on some Fonts which should be avoided.

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Written by: Tony Gentile
Free Fonts: Excellent List of Resources

Are you working on a new project that involves type face and are looking for something new and fresh to work with? You might just be in luck. In this post I have compiled a list of websites that offer an amazing selection of unique and free fonts to choose from. So why not benefit from these great resources and start downloading fonts to use in your next design. Happy surfing!

Want to check out more resources? Check out some of my previous post:

Ultimate Resource list of Patterns and Backgrounds

Free PSD Files: Collection of 50+ psd files from around the web

Ultimate Resource list for Photoshop Brushes

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