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CD Cover Design could be a great source of design inspiration for many graphic designers. There are plenty of ways to design a CD cover. Some use heavily edited and airbrushed photos while others try to be more creative by using typography and text effects. Here, we present 25 CD cover designs and concepts with inspiring use of typography and text effects. I hope you will find these designs helpful in designing your own typographic CD labels. Read Best Design News

Typography is the new black, especially for most designers. Here we are featuring 20 inspiring typography design in t-shirts for all of you typo geeks out there to enjoy!
Celebrate all your favorite Sans-Serif typefaces including Helvetica, Meta, Avenir, Frutiger, Officina, Optima, Gotham, Akzidenz Grotesk, Univers, Trade Gothic, Din, Agenda, Interstate, News Gothic, Myriad, Eurostile, Futura, and Gill Sans by wearing one of these shirts. Read Best Design News

Kids fonts with their hand drawn style and irregular shapes are always useful if you want to bring a childlike fun to a design. So if you are looking for fonts to use for a kids party invitation, fun family gatherings or for your kids’ school project, you actually have hundreds of options to choose from. Here, we offer our top picks when it comes to kids fonts that you can use for free. Read Best Design News

Free graffiti fonts are widely available online. However, finding the best graffiti fonts that would look great on your hiphop-themed or grunge-style artwork could prove too overwhelming at times given the vast resources that you have to browse through. So here, we will make it easier for you to find the perfect fonts for your street art by featuring the best 20 free graffiti fonts from the great and most trusted free font site dafont.com. Read Best Design News

Letters and words are everywhere. In fact, types are present in almost everything we do–from traffic signs, billboards, packaging of products that we buy from the supermarket to brochures and office memorandums. As graphic designers, we we are the ones who decide how these texts and words will look like in our brochures, packaging designs, billboards and so on.  Thus a better understanding of typography and how to use it in our designs is beneficial to every designer. Read Best Design News

The use of handrawn images and handmade fonts are one of the hottest trends in web and print graphic designs. In the past couple of years, we have seen a number of websites and blogs that made use of these elements. Smashing magazine, for example, has an article featuring some handrawn icons that you can use for your blogs or websites. Even in packaging designs, there are a number of manufacturers that made use of handrawn elements.

Personally, I would probably use handrawn images or handmade fonts in the future to make Read Best Design News

I recently decided to look for clean and sleek fonts that would go nicely with a clean or minimalist design. Since I have no budget to buy premium fonts, I decided to limit my search to Dafont.com. I actually found a number of good fonts from this site but out of these several fonts that caught my attention, I singled out only 20 of them, which I will share to you in this roundup, just in case you are in a similar search. Read Best Design News

Designers are making type sexy again. Painting with type is a growing trend nowadays especially with computers giving designers the tools to do amazing things with type. For advertisers, especially, words are extremely limiting when it comes to conveying ideas and concepts. That is why design has to go hand in hand with types to ensure that these words carry their intended meaning into the minds of the waiting public. Read Best Design News

When used at smaller sizes, typefaces such as our beloved Helvetica, Verdana, Tahoma, etc. which are designed for print usually becomes harder to read and unattractive to the eye. Even if you apply anti-aliasing (that option in the Character Palette that’s supposed to make your fonts appear smoother), it is still not enough to make these fonts look better on screen. So what’s our next option? Read Best Design News

But, what are dingbats? Dingbats are those types in your font library that have symbols and shapes in the positions designated for alphabetical or numeric characters. So, you can use these dingbats to add a character or symbol in your layout or document.

However, for us designers, dingbats offer a partially formed template that we can experiment with. Most of us use dingbats for creating logos, texture backgrounds, or for illustrations that require very large elements. Read Best Design News