Fonts posts

It’s rare that you find a typeface with both legibility and character; the latter often obscures the former.

So you’d be wise to take advantage of our sister site MightyDeal.com’s current offer on the beautiful Solomon font family.

The family includes 2 different styles in 6 weights, 12 fonts in total. The first style is a utilitarian san-serif, easy to use for body text and is somewhat reminiscent of...

It’s long been thought that Arial is to Helvetica what the ugly step sister is to Cinderella. Helvetica was designed in Germany in the 1950s to compete with Akzidenz Grotesk; Arial was designed in America in the early 1980s, believed by many to be a move by Microsoft to supply a Helvetica-like font as part of its TrueType specification without acknowledging or paying royalties to Helvetica.

Be that as it may, to the untrained eye, the differences between the two fonts are negligible — largely due to the near identical widths. But to the savvy eye of the designer, there are dozens of subtle differences that leap off the page. For example,...

First it was the Capulets versus the Montagues; then it was Coke versus Pepsi; and the latest epic battle? Serif versus sans-serif, of course.

Lucky for us, the crew at UrbanFonts has produced a nifty infographic to help clarify the age-old rivalry between serif and sans. Brief, yet information-packed, it covers everything from DPI to classification, and expertly explains why serif is better for print and sans serif is best suited for web.

This clever infographic — that smartly draws upon...

Custom fonts are among the most potentially appealing aspects of CSS3 for designers. With the font-face rule, you can render any font you have online within your web page text, regardless of whether the user has it installed or not.

As with most CSS3 techniques, the basic code is pretty simple, but the practical...

Born in London, England in the early 1950s, Alan Meeks began his career as a trainee artist, typographer and typeface designer in 1970.

He joined Letraset as senior designer and studio manager in 1975, where he was responsible for artistic output, including 40 of his own typefaces. Together with Type Director Colin Brignall, Meeks is credited with transforming Letraset into a major player within the industry.

In the mid-1980s...