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Typewriter fonts are usually used to compliment vintage or retro-themed designs. Using these types can make your designs look like it was taken from the Second World War Era mainly because of the popularity of typewriters during these years. We have seen numerous movies and posters depicting the 1920s to 1950s era that made use of typewriter fonts. Or, for a personalized look, you may also use these fonts to design birthday cards or anniversary cards. Read Best Design News

Font management is one of the many problems faced by designers and typographers. With so many different types of fonts available, managing them all can often be a job within itself. Especially if you are the type who keep thousands of fonts in your hard drive, then choosing, installing, uninstalling and comparing fonts could prove to be really daunting. Also, having too many fonts installed in your computer will affect the performance of your machine. Not only that, if you have hundreds of fonts displayed in your selection menus, which are usually arranged in alphabetical order, then it is nearly impossible to find the one font you need. Read Best Design News

Handwriting or handwritten fonts are a great way to add a natural and personal touch to any design.Many designers have been using handwriting fonts to spice up their designs and give it a hand-drawn look. But what are handwriting or handwritten fonts? They are basically those types that simulate a manuscript or letters written by hand. These types are usually used for website headers, notes such as those found in some tutorials to explain certain elements or as tagline for a logo. Most people also use it in designing personal cards to make them look like the message, for example, was written by hand by the sender. Scrapbook enthusiasts also make use of handwritten fonts to customize the look of their artworks. Handwritten fonts, however, do not look good in cases where you have a long texts or paragraphs as these types could become very difficult to read. Read Best Design News

Free but quality fonts that you can use for your different projects are an essential component of every designers’ tool kit. The proper and good use of typography can make a rather bland design into an attractive piece of art. To save you time from searching for new, fresh and artistic fonts that you can use for free, we decided to come up with a roundup of what we believe are quality and useful fonts. Although these resources are released for free, make sure to read the license agreements carefully as they can change from time to time. Read Best Design News

Dingbat fonts can be very useful to graphic and web designers. Dingbat fonts are symbols and shapes that are created to describe fonts in the position designated for alphabetical or numerical characters. If you do not know yet how to use dingbat fonts in your designs, then you should start learning and collecting them since they are great time-savers. Read Best Design News

Typography is one of the major elements of every design. As graphic designers, we are required to understand types, how to properly use them to come up with beautiful, harmonious and great-looking designs. In fact there are a number of designers who can make stunning designs by using types alone. As a tribute to typography and designers, we gathered together a total of 35 inspiring typographic wallpapers about graphic design. You do not have to be a graphic designer to appreciate these wallpapers. Read Best Design News

Last time, we had a roundup of the most spectacular ecommerce websites that made use of the grunge style design (28 Awesome Examples of ECommerce Websites Using Grunge Design). As a follow-uop, we decided to pool together a number of free resources that you can use just in case you also want to create something similar to those ecommerce sites we featured in our previous post. The first half of this list includes 15 free grunge fonts while the second half includes quality and high-resolution grunge Photoshop brushes that you can use for free. As in any graphic freebies, make sure that your read and understand first the terms of use set by the individual authors before usingthem, especially if you plan to use it for a commercial project. I hope you will find these resources useful as well. Enjoy! Read Best Design News

Last time, we shared with you the best retro web designs from around the web to give you inspiration just in case you are doing similar projects. As a follow through to our previous post, we decided to come up with a list of retro design resources that you can use in designing vintage or retro-themed websites, desktop wallpapers, posters, e-cards, print ads, web banners and many more. This list is divided into three parts. The first part is composed of beautiful retro fonts while the second part is composed of hundreds of high-resolution and quality Photoshop brushes that you can use to create vintage look in your design. The third and the last part are sets of patterns featuring retro or vintage styles. Read Best Design News

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