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14 fonts to fall in love with: trending typefaces that designers adore

Creative Boom

And if there's one obsession that designers feel truly passionate about, it's typography. But while font choice may be deeply personal, that doesn't mean you can't play the field once in a while. To celebrate Valentine's Day, then, we asked the community for the fonts they adore the most in 2023. Nan Tragedy by NaN 3.

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10 Fresh Font Pairings for Editorial Design in 2020

Shillington

And one of the most important factors in all that is choosing fonts that complement each other well, both aesthetically and functionally. With millions of potential font combinations open to you, though, it can be difficult to know where to begin. Elena is a lovely font designed specifically for digital text.

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Michel Vrana on Designing Dante's Indiana

Spine Magazine

Michel Vrana is a graphic designer who ran his own boutique studio for ten years before deciding to go freelance in 2009 to concentrate on his passion: creating book covers. Here he talks us through his process for designing Dante’s Indiana. View fullsize. View fullsize.

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Adam Pendleton’s Radical Typography as Protest

Eye on Design

It is also a visual experience asserting that Pendleton is as much a book designer as a painter and video maker. In a 2009 essay titled Adam, Why Arial? designer David Reinfurt criticizes Pendleton for using Arial, describing the font as hard to place and not firmly linked to history. Who Is Queen?

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What is Sustainable Graphic Design?

UX Collective

Regardless of the final forms, if its client-based or self-initiated, I treat all my designs as opportunities for intellectual inquiry and self-expression. The Sustainabilitist Principles The Sustainabilitist Principles is a modular manifesto; a collection of the ways of thinking to sustainably design as I considered them in 2009.

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The 15 Best Web Design Books to Level Up Your Skills

Inkbot Design

The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst Typography triggers memories of tedious technical details from early training for many designers. Robert Bringhurst's design bible, The Elements of Typographic Style, will awaken your inner typography nerd in the best way possible. The Elements of Typographic Style: Version 4.0:

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The 37 Best Design Books to Level Up Your Skills

Inkbot Design

Core design principles Concepts of visual organisation and composition Creative problem-solving processes Graphic design history Ideal for beginners yet insightful for experienced designers, Graphic Design Theory helps cement core graphic design knowledge.