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Calcula

Typographica

If typography is writing with preformed and reusable letters (or, to put it more conceptually, with the instructions for making those letters) that can be combined and recombined into arbitrary texts, then there is no aspect of typography that hasn’t been challenged, undermined, or expanded by digital type. In this context, much has been made — and rightly so — of the significance of the OpenType Variable format , but Shiva Nallaperumal ’s Calcula shows us how fluid the l

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Top 10 Photoshop Plugins for Web Designers in 2019

One Extra Pixel

In 2018, Adobe Photoshop is still one of the top software choices for web designers. It’s an incredibly powerful and versatile tool in itself, however Photoshop plugins can further. The post Top 10 Photoshop Plugins for Web Designers in 2019 appeared first on Onextrapixel.

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Crash Course: Squarespace Images Block

Six Leaf Design

We as humans are visual people, so it makes sense that by adding images to your website you immediately make it more dynamic. But you don't have to just plop an image in and call it good. With the Squarespace image block there are 6 different layouts to choose from to add more creativity to your site. And they work the same no matter what template you're on!

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How to create and sell an online course in WordPress: a step-by-step guide

Paul Jarvis

I started creating WordPress online courses in 2014. At the time it was for fun and really just to see if I could create one (I never intended it to be the main part of my business). But now, years l.

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Let's Talk Trends: Designing for Maximum Impact

Speaker: Amber Asay, Creative Director and Founder of award-winning design studio Nice People

Understanding what trends are happening and how they’re impacting the competitive landscape is crucial to providing top dollar design strategy to your clients. With so many trends coming and going, it can be overwhelming to determine which ones you should capitalize on and which ones might not be worth the trouble. In this exclusive webinar with Amber Asay, we’ll explore graphic design trends that need to die, trends that are starting to pick up and why, trends that have come and gone, and how t

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29LT Riwaya

Typographica

Arabic texts for storytelling are ordinarily long and continuous. Their accessibility is at the core of texts’ legibility that engages the readers and sustains their interest in contents. The readers need to see, discern, and identify letterforms and words. Part of the designer’s response to the readers’ needs includes the selection and use of a practical and intelligible typeface with a character and a voice. 29LT Riwaya is such a typeface, bringing clarity and accessibility to lengthy and encu

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Starting a Business - Fearful and Fearless Countries

Graphic Springs

From Jeff Bazos, to Mark Zuckerberg, to Elon Musk, all successful entrepreneurs will have taken at least one risk at some point in their career. In order to succeed you must first fail is a mantra well established in the business world, but how many of us play by that rule? Leaving a steady-paying job to start your own business is a risk in itself and it can often take a lot of time and bravery to take that leap of faith.

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Writing for Designers

A List Apart

A note from the editors: We’re pleased to share an excerpt from the Introduction of Scott Kubie’s Writing for Designers , from A Book Apart. S**t. The writing. We forgot about the writing. The thing, the design thing…it needs words! Oh man, so many words. I thought somebody…wasn’t the client going to…s**t. We’ve got to get the writing done. We’ve got to get the writing done!

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Export

Typographica

Though typeface designs are traditionally based on written letters, which themselves are comprised of strokes, the practice of typeface development is premised on contours instead. Open a standard font-editing application today and you will see nodes and handles that can be manipulated to determine contours, the shape of the edge where black meets white.

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Nickel

Typographica

It is easy to understand how a few shapes created for a banknote can inspire a whole typeface; the bold big characters need to stand out in a complex composition of ornaments, fine-tuned illustrations, and geometric patterns. I am curious to see the 1918 Chinese banknote that inspired Nickel. The long triangular serifs make me think of those Latin typefaces that appeared in the second half of the nineteenth century, rather than a Glyphic style.

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The Democratization of Design: Giving Creators & Marketers the Tools to Succeed

Brands must create and share impactful content to thrive, but they have less people, tighter budgets, and fewer resources to do so. Learn how to publish and market digital content with the same professionalism as organizations with million-dollar budgets.

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IBM Plex

Typographica

What first struck me about IBM Plex Sans was its form. It’s not the first typeface in which right-angle interiors contrast with smooth exteriors. But it does achieve a remarkable balance of this effect, applying it overtly to some shapes — the tail of the a , the ear of the g  — and far more subtly to others, with the straight segments of the bdpq bowls.

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Digestive

Typographica

“Something can be good, or it can be original; it can rarely be both.” That’s a saying I’ve heard attributed to Matthew Carter, without being able to pinpoint the source. In any event, Digestive distinctly qualifies as both. It joins a tiny club of original display faces that are unambiguous, singular, and well executed. The aptly named Digestive deftly blends two formal inspirations deployed in a beautiful group of letters.

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Our Favorite Typefaces of 2017

Typographica

Welcome to our twelfth annual celebration of new type design. These are not necessarily the “best” typefaces, nor the most popular or top-selling (the big retailers already have that covered). What can be said is that each of these 2017 releases inspired at least one admirer among our distinguished group of designers, educators, and enthusiasts to take time away from their day jobs and pen their personal praises.

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FF Casus

Typographica

There are many reasons why I chose Eugene Yukechev’s FF Casus from a plethora of the year’s releases. I first met Eugene in 2004, when I was still a Type and Media student. Back then, Eugene was already a successful graphic designer from Novosibirsk. His studio was the best in town and could favorably rival any of its Moscow counterparts. Five years later, in 2009, when I had returned to Moscow and launched my Type & Typography course at the British Higher School of Art and Design , I notic

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Rethinking Creative Workflows: Increasing Efficiency in the Design Process

As the design industry evolves, teams are facing new challenges and a need to produce more outstanding creative work than ever. Leaders must learn how to adapt their processes to solve today’s—and tomorrow’s—unique design challenges. In this e-book, you’ll learn how to establish your creative workflow and leverage the power of CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite to streamline the entire design process, from start to finish.

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Sachsenwald

Typographica

As 21st-century America hurtles towards fascism, when the current reality has become so absurd as to render parody obsolete, using a Schaftstiefelgrotesk 1 may feel uncomfortably close to the real thing. So when you need a strong, imposing blackletter, but want to avoid the Third Reich undertones of a Jackboot Grot like National or Deutschland , reach for Omagari’s revival of Sachsenwald instead.

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Gerstner-Programm

Typographica

Gerstner-Programm from Forgotten Shapes restores a previously inaccessible typeface to a new audience. Sharing this important work allows designers to examine past technologies and their aesthetic outcomes, and provides intimate insight into the late Karl Gerstner’s methods and approach. Gerstner Programm was designed by Karl Gerstner in an attempt to harmonize and extend Akzidenz-Grotesk.

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29LT Bukra

Typographica

In recent years, Arabic typefaces have increasingly responded to contemporary visual communication and new media needs, and so have their aesthetic diversity. The design of large families that accomm­odate multiscript and complex typographic articulation are becoming quite common, but few are as extensive as 29LT Bukra. Initiated a decade ago specifically for an advertising campaign of large super-graphics in public space, the fonts have been growing slowly and evolving naturally into an ex

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Dr

Typographica

It’s the year 2017. Typefaces’ circles are perfect, lines are straight, and gratuitous corrections have been seamlessly injected into every letterform, in an attempt to achieve optical perfection. But wait. What is this? Dr ? What kind of a name is that for a typeface? And what’s wrong with the glyphs? Well, in my opinion, there’s nothing wrong with them.

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Creative Insights: Data-Backed Trends to Help You Design Successful Content

In today’s competitive markets, how do you make sure that your content not only stands out but performs well? How can you predict whether certain design choices will result in clicks, engagement, downloads, and other drivers of ROI? Shutterstock’s Creative Insights Report (Q3) is your window into the hottest trends that are transforming the creative world.

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Protokoll

Typographica

I’ve never been sold on the post-bitmap mechanical aesthetics in type design. I find these projects to be too coarse or obvious. I convinced myself that such a brief could only be a trap, design wise. That was before Tobias Holzmann tweaked the idea to create Protokoll , which is way more than just a brilliant name! On Out of the Dark’s website, Protokoll claims to be “entirely parametric”, which I believe is entirely false!

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Chiswick

Typographica

Type designers have to walk a fine line when creating type directly inspired by a specific location. We love discovering new source material and find it endlessly fascinating, but are simultaneously aware of the potential pitfalls (stereotype, appropriation, overgeneralization, and so on) in riffing off the vernacular of a place. There are plenty of examples of insensitive type design that purport to reflect the character of a certain region, but really are just caricatures.

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Pilot

Typographica

Being a graphic design undergraduate obsessed with type in 2012 meant waiting with bated breath for the yearly crop of Type and Media student projects made visible through an annual web showcase. 2012 did not disappoint, and the work of Aleksandra Samu?enkova graced my eyes for the first time. An overpowering sense of wonder filled me when I looked beyond the initial letters and words, and appreciated Pilot in paragraphs.

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Nara Sans

Typographica

The word “exciting” is not one I normally expect to reach for when writing about a humanist sans serif — in many ways, the vanilla ice cream of typeface genres. But this brand of vanilla comes with extra hot peppers: Nara Sans ’ solid roman is accompanied by unexpectedly expressive italics. Two of them. The family structure is inherited from the same designer’s seriffed Nara (2009).

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From Visualization to Execution: Exploring Our Strengths as Designers

Speaker: Sean Adams, ArtCenter College of Design

Thomas Edison once said “Vision without execution is hallucination.” This statement applies not just to invention, but to graphic design. One of the greatest strengths of graphic designers is the ability to first develop a concept and then execute it to make it real. From visualization and ideation all the way through to actuation and execution, each step of this process takes skill and expertise.

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Mazagan

Typographica

Mazagan was inspired by a French typeface family called Marocaines , originally published during the Belle Époque — the golden age of the late nineteenth century characterized by excitement and buoyancy, along with visual expressions of flowing lines and references to luscious botanical structures. I love it when type designers are willing to take on a historical typeface influenced by previous aesthetic preferences and turn it around, emphasizing what makes it stand out.

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Graphik Arabic

Typographica

Graphik Arabic is a pleasant and contemporary design that is versatile in usage and fun to play with. The family has quite a range of weights and succeeds in maintaining its rhythm and family feeling throughout its range. This will surely be a good resource for graphic designers wishing to design with Arabic text. Of particular note is the dynamic and tightly spaced rhythm — no easy feat to pull off.

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Fit

Typographica

Not many type designers will tell you that their typeface isn’t readable, but David Jonathan Ross , in his description of Fit , proclaims that “it is not recommended for setting any copy that you actually want people to read.” He’s right, of course. Fit is ridiculously unreadable. And yet it’s fantastic. Fit may appear simple, but it clearly required a lot of complex thinking to make it work so well.

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Zeitung

Typographica

Akiem Helmling, Bas Jacobs and Sami Kortemäki of Underware have made a really nice contribution to the genre of sans serif types and to web typography with the introduction of Zeitung. Consisting of eight weights in roman and italics, the family has forms and proportions designed for reading at conventional text sizes. And most importantly, its solid readability is firmly rooted in the character spacing.

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Web Design for All: Accessibility, Inclusivity and Beyond

Speaker: Eden Spivak, Design Expert and Editor at Wix & Nir Horesh, Accessibility Lead and Senior Product Manager at Wix

When we design products or websites for people like ourselves, there are many others who are, as a result, left out. From visually impaired users who rely on assistive technology, to people with a temporary injury such as a broken arm, tech users are forever diverse and beautifully unique. The products we design can, and should, reflect the extremely wide range of human experiences and needs.