Tag: Typography

Create Typography Using Simple Geometric Shapes in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you how to Create Typography Using Simple Geometric Shapes in Photoshop. This is a fun and simple tutorial, aim to get you familiar with the Shape Tool in Photoshop. Have an attempt! This is an intermediate degree difficulty guide plus some actions can be tricky. Note: The Photoshop guide is… Continue reading Create Typography Using Simple Geometric Shapes in Photoshop

20 Must-Know Typography Tools, Frameworks & Libraries for Web Designers

Typography is indeed very essential aspects of every good web design. As a novice or professional web designer, knowing about the typography tools that are best, frameworks and libraries is certainly a bonus point. All these resources can help you in dealing with website design typography in a much better way, offering you extensive control… Continue reading 20 Must-Know Typography Tools, Frameworks & Libraries for Web Designers

Popular design news of the week: January 4, 2015 – January 10, 2016

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular design news of the week: January 4, 2015 – January 10, 2016

This Year’s Most Useful WordPress Themes

The fact that Enfold is ThemeForest’s best rated top seller is reason enough to give it a closer look. Enfold, with its drag and drop layout editor is extremely user friendly. Simply drag and drop your content into place. An especially useful feature is its ability to import demo files with a single click, select… Continue reading This Year’s Most Useful WordPress Themes

30 Brilliant Examples Of UI Cards

Card UI is a very popular layout option for many types of data. Pinterest was the first to create a layout like this, and it is was earlier referred to as “pinterest-style layout”. Usually cards are used to group together information in a very intuitive way and permits for a very fast UX, meaning users… Continue reading 30 Brilliant Examples Of UI Cards

2016 Web Design & UX Trends to Boost Conversions

It’s almost 2016, and with the new year comes a new set of web design trends waiting to be discovered. While most trend reports focus on visual styles and technical functionalities, the following infographic adds a new element to the mix; All of the trends presented here have been handpicked for their potential to increase… Continue reading 2016 Web Design & UX Trends to Boost Conversions

Create 5 high-impact typography effects in Adobe InDesign

  Prefer a video tutorial with InDesign typography tips? Then you must check out this one by Ashlee Harrell from the Envato Tuts+ YouTube channel. Follow it to learn how to create Adobe InDesign text effects: What you’ll learn in this InDesign text effect tutorial How to set up your document How to… Continue reading Create 5 high-impact typography effects in Adobe InDesign

A Web Designer’s Typographic Boilerplate

I like to use a typography.css in my projects; a separate file which houses all the basic structural typographic styles I’ll need. A lot of what’s found within it is obvious stuff (heading sizes, for example) but it also contains less obvious things which I don’t want to forget. Let’s work our way through the… Continue reading A Web Designer’s Typographic Boilerplate

How to Establish a Modular Typographic Scale

Possibly the most obvious typographic question in the hands of a designer is “which typefaces should I use?” The second question, one which rarely gets the kind of attention it ought, is “at what sizes should I set my type?” Establishing a modular scale is the best way to determine typographic sizes, in fact, it… Continue reading How to Establish a Modular Typographic Scale

Dashes, Quotes and Ligatures: Typographic Best Practices

Typography has become a hot topic, often used referring illustrative typography or custom lettering. At its core, however, typography is simply the skill of setting type. Several centuries ago, this meant composing every paragraph by hand, character by character, before locking it into a form and printing it on a letterpress machine. For much of… Continue reading Dashes, Quotes and Ligatures: Typographic Best Practices

Typographic Readability and Legibility

When using typography on the web, there are many things to keep in mind in order to create a page that provides clear access to the content and presents it in a legible way. Typically this can be broken down into two buckets: Readability and Legibility. Readability refers to the way in which words and… Continue reading Typographic Readability and Legibility