Script typography is a two-edged sword. Used well, it can enhance and set apart product design, giving it an elegant, playful, or even mysterious look and feel. But, if used poorly, you end up with a sloppy mess of a product label.…
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In the past, designers used to leave typography projects to Quark and InDesign. You could always adjust type within Photoshop, but to do serious typographic work, you would need to bring your work into either Quark or InDesign, where there were paragraph…
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Nothing makes your typography jump out of your design like adding a third dimension. If your idea of 3D typography is simply adding a drop shadow, you’ll love our tour of Photoshop CS6’s new 3D capabilities.
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Street art, street typography, or typography graffiti — whatever term you call it — is one of the most intense art forms for many designers to study. Part of the intrigue is the speed and the limited tools with which these artists have at…
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I love fonts! Hands down, scrolling through gobs of new fonts is one of my biggest time-killers (second only to Facebook). From a creative standpoint, fonts are a major driver of design for me. Often, I look for the right font prior…
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It seems like half of the sites on the web are using webfont services these days. While font services are hugely popular (thanks mainly to the widespread support of the @font-face CSS property), it’s often difficult to choose a font, a font…
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The use of typographic logos is becoming a very popular concept, because it gives designers the flexibility to be creative without overcompensating with ostentatious graphics and loud colors. Typographic designs are generally creative and interesting manipulations of letters and numbers in different…
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3D graphic design has taken on a whole new life in recent years. It has also become one of the most popular effects used in nearly any field of design due to its ability to make graphics leap off the page. Movies,…
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Illustrator CS5 has some amazing tools that help you create stunning effects for a wide variety of design projects. For the web or for print, you can create some really amazing 3D typography using Illustrator’s vast array of tools. Of course, 3D…
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Embedded web fonts can add stylish typography to your web design for just a few kilobytes. Techniques that used to require large, slow-loading images are now handled with lightweight font files and several lines of CSS. Ever since the @font-face CSS property…
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