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20 Useful and Nicely Designed Web Applications

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From WebAppers, a collection of sites that are not only useful for web designers/developers, but are great examples of web design, as well. A nice article, worth browsing.

20 Useful and Nicely Designed Web Applications »

November 2, 2009 in Web Development

19 Top Font Combinations

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If you only have time to read one article today, this is the one I would recommend! I haven't seen a lot of articles on the subject of combining fonts effectively and this one is done really well. Definitely worth a read.

I followed the golden rule of font combinations, which is simply to combine a serif and a sans serif to give “contrast” and not “concord”. The farther apart the typeface styles are, as a guideline, the more luck you’ll have. Fonts that are too similar look bad. Set a line of Times Roman over Garamond and you’ll see what I mean. I chose the simple model of a bold headline font and normal weight body font. All the font combinations got the same “lorem” text.

19 Top Font Combinations »

October 19, 2009 in Design Resources

Fonts for Designers

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From Woork Up, the first in what will be a series of weekly posts, highlighting great fonts for designers. Each week will feature 5 fonts. Worth browsing.


Fonts for Designers (Part 1) »
(Woork Up)

October 19, 2009 in Design Resources

Web Design Resources Round-up

retrowall.jpg There were a lot of nice web design resources highlighted recently and here's a round-up of the ones that caught my eye:

45 Sets of Seamless Vector Patterns » (Creative Nerds)

A nice round-up of Photoshop tutorials for creating a web layout. 30+ Easy to Follow Photoshop Layout Design Tutorials » (Web Design Booth)

Go forth and find some blog design inspiration by browsing this nice round-up. 40 Inspiring Blog Designs » (Vandelay Design)

Continue reading "Web Design Resources Round-up" »

July 14, 2009 in Design Resources

30 Places to Find Creative Commons Media and More Design Resources

30places.png Sitepoint has a nice round-up of resources for great Creative Commons Media, including Audio, Images, Text and more. A nice resource, worth bookmarking.

30 Places To Find Creative Commons Media »


More design resources:
From Web Designer Depot: 24 Free Exclusive Vector Icons »
Find lots of great design Patterns at ava7patterns »
Find Royalty Free Button Icons a-plenty at Button-Download.com »

May 1, 2009 in Design Resources

30 High Quality Free Fonts for Professional Designs

30freefonts.png Free and quality fonts aren't all that easy to find but Designer Daily has a nice round-up of some great fonts. All free. Worth a browse.

30 high-quality free fonts for professional designs »


April 8, 2009 in Design Resources

20 Useful Typography Tools

20typogtools.png Six Revisions has a nice post today with a round-up of free to use typography tools. Many would probably be known to most but a few new-to-me ones in there. Worth a browse.

20 Useful Typography Tools »

March 20, 2009 in Design Resources

Finding Inspiration

findinginspiration.png Web Designer Wall can always be counted on for great articles and today has a nice one, detailing how to get out and find design inspiration, in all kinds of unexpected places. A good read, worth checking out.

Finding Inspiration

March 16, 2009 in Design Resources

Cufon Font Replacement

Cufón aims to become a "worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use." How cufon is different ...

• No plug-ins required – it can only use features natively supported by the client
• Compatibility – it has to work on every major browser on the market
• Ease of use – no or near-zero configuration needed for standard use cases
• Speed – it has to be fast, even for sufficiently large amounts of text

Cufón consists of two individual parts – a font generator, which converts fonts to a proprietary format and a rendering engine written in JavaScript.

Cufon - Fonts for the People ».

February 2, 2009 in Design Resources

sIFR Vault: repository of sIFR fonts

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Fans of the flash image replacement technique sIFR have a great place to grab sIFR -ready fonts. sIFR fonts has a ton of fonts ready to go, sourced from various web font libraries. A great resource, worth bookmarking.

sIFRvault is a resource primarily for Web designers who wish to easily add custom embedded fonts into their Web pages. sIFRvault is a collection of pre-generated Flash SWFs that can be used with sIFR.With sIFRvault, you don't need Adobe Flashor the the actual fonts installed on your machine.

sIFR Vault »

January 24, 2009 in Design Resources

Font Picker: Visual Font Picker

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Font Picker lets you input your text and see it displayed in a lot of different font faces. A nice way to see test headline font styles.

Font Picker - finding the right font for the job

January 19, 2009 in Design Resources

Font Squirrel: Free Fonts for commercial use

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Font Squirrel features free, quality fonts that are licesnsed for commercial work.

Font Squirrel | Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses.

January 17, 2009 in Design Resources

8 Definitive Web Font Stacks

Sitepoint has a nice article today, exploring the idea of font stacks.

I’ve been considering the idea of font stacks—using the well-known font-family CSS property—to list as many different fonts as possible in order to optimize the web site experience for a maximum number of users.

A good read, detailing eight font stacks, combining Windows, Mac, Linux, and Adobe fonts in groups that are relatively similar among themselves.

8 Definitive Web Font Stacks (Sitepoint)

January 7, 2009 in Design Resources

Bold Typography Uses, Inspiration and Free Fonts

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Site PSDFan takes a look at the use of bold typography in web design, how to uses it, showcase of sites that use it well and some free font suggestions to get the look.

This post looks at the common uses of bold typography within web design. It showcases some excellent uses of bold typography, and also provides the 5 best free bold fonts to use in your own designs.


Bold Typography -Uses, Inspiration, Free Fonts (PSDFan)

December 22, 2008 in Design Resources

5 Resources and Tutorials for Web Design

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1. 350 Retro and Vintage Photoshop Brushes (Designm.ag)

2. Top 75 Best Design Resources of 2008 A collection of the best and most useful design resources of 2008. (Toxel.com)

3. 19 Must Have, Free Christmas Resources A round-up of Christmas related design resources, photoshop brushes, vectors and more. (Smashing Apps)

4. 25 Photoshop Tutorials for Web Designers Photoshop tutorials, geared towards web designers. Tutorials include full web page templates, navigations menus, headers and more. (Six Revisions)

5. Top 30 Photoshop Text Effectors Tutorials of 2008 Round-up of some of the best Photoshop text effect tutorials of 2008 with a chance to vote for your favourite. (Speckyboy)

December 21, 2008 in Design Resources

20 Typefaces to Start a Designer's Career

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JustCreativeDesign.com has a great article, looking at the 20 best fonts to buy for a design career. Even if you're not a professional designer, the list is a great starting point for a nice font collection.

20 Typefaces To Start A Designer’s Career

November 12, 2008 in Design Resources

Clean Font Showcase

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From 350designs.com, a nice showcase of clean, legible fonts, complete with download links.

350 Designs - Examples of clean, legible fonts with download links

November 10, 2008 in Design Resources

20+ Beautiful Free Serif Fonts

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From site Think Design a round-up of some nice and free serif fonts that is worth a browse.

Font Resources - 20 Beautiful Free Serif Fonts

November 4, 2008 in Design Resources

Designers Favorite Fonts

The DesignO'Blog looks at which fonts designers love and why and demonstrates each font through images of their work. A great read for a look at design and font choice.

Designers Favorite Fonts In Use

October 7, 2008 in Design Resources

Top 7 Fonts Used by Professionals

Just Creative Design has collected the top seven fonts that are used by professionals in graphic design. The fonts are all classics and are not free, but a great round-up for some quality font inspiration.

Top 7 Fonts Used By Professionals In Graphic Design.

September 24, 2008 in Design Resources

Typechart: Browse Web Type then Grab the CSS

Typechart lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography (as it appears on Windows and Mac) and then grab the CSS for the type that grabs your eye. Nice!

Typechart - Browse Web Type, Grab CSS.

September 2, 2008 in Design Resources

Veerle's 10 Favorite Typefaces

When Veerle talks fonts, I'm sure going to pop over and have a look and she has some nice fonts on her top 10 lists. Worth a look for some new font discoveries!

My 10 favorite typefaces

August 4, 2008 in Design Resources

40+ Extremely Beautiful Fonts from deviantART

Noupe.com has a great round-up of hand-picked fonts from the pages of deviantART. Well worth browsing!

40 Extremely Beautiful FONTS Hand-picked from deviantART

July 21, 2008 in Design Resources

71 Gradient Resources for Web Design

From Vandelay Website Design, a nice round-up of all things gradient related, including tutorials, generators, resources and more.

71 Gradient Resources for Web Design

June 17, 2008 in Design Resources

70+ High End Components for Web Designers and Developers

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Website DevKick has compiled a bit list of "hand-picked, quality components" for web developers and designers". Most will be familiar to anyone who follows this stuff, but there's also probably a few new ones in there as well. And as always, nice to have options compiled in one place. Worth browsing.

Milestone 01 - 70 High-End Components for Web Designers and Developers (DevKick)

May 28, 2008 in Design Resources

101 Awesome Downloadable Fonts for Designers

Website Free Geekery has a nice list of free fonts all nicely categorized by font style. Well worth browsing for some new font finds.

101 Awesome Downloadable Fonts for Designers (Free Geekery)

April 17, 2008 in Design Resources

5 Fonts I Wish Would Die

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Well not me, but the author of the article. I do agree on the first four for sure. I'm not sure about sending Times New Roman to the font graveyard though.

5 fonts I wish would die (Web Design and Marketing Blog)

Fancy yourself a font lover? Why not test your font knowledge with The Rather Difficult Font Game. It is indeed rather difficult. I scored a barely passable 18 out of 34.

April 15, 2008 in Design Resources

Top 15 Inspirational Typography and Font Blogs

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Website Specky Boy has a nice round-up of 15 Typography and Font blogs. Well worth browsing for some type inspiration.

It is very easy to design a great looking site, but more often than not we forget/ignore good typography styling and practices. These sites below offer great advice, tips, inspiration and to be honest a damn good read.

Top 15 Inspirational Typograhy and Font Blogs | Speckyboy - Wordpress and Design

April 6, 2008 in Design Resources

10 Nice (and Free) Grunge Fonts

I was looking around for some grunge fonts recently and found a nice selection, so I thought I'd round-up a few of my favourites, all found at DaFont.

Soul Mission
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Hawaii Killer

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NeoPrint
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Cocaine Sans
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28 Days Later

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Sidewalk
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Epoxy History
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Times New York
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Broken Ghost
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Base 02
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March 20, 2008 in Design Resources

Favorite Typefaces of 2007

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The font lovers over at Typographica have rounded up their favorite typefaces of 2007. A nice list worth browsing for some font inspiration.

Our Favorite Typefaces of 2007 (Typographica)

March 8, 2008 in Design Resources

30 Fonts That All Designers Must Own

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From website Just Creative Design, a nice list of great fonts, that makes for a nice font shopping list for anyone interested in building a useful font collection for design.

30 Best Fonts, Downloadable Fonts, Free Fonts, Cool Fonts for Designers

March 3, 2008 in Design Resources

Dingbat Fonts Roundup

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Design site Bittbox.com has a nice roundup of Dingbat Fonts that can be really useful in design, especially when converted to vector images in Illustrator (as Bittbox suggests). Worth a look see.

Dingbats Roundup: 16 Incredibly Detailed, Useful (and free) Dingbat Fonts (Bittbox)

February 18, 2008 in Design Resources

Hand-Picked List of Best Tutorials of 20007

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2007 Hand-Picked Tutorials - from Photoshop to Illustrator and Ajax and CSS Code Snippets.

Worth browsing in case you missed any of them during the last year.

November 30, 2007 in Design Resources

Fawnt: a font resource for anyone

fawnt.pngFawnt is a font resource for designers, developers and "anyone that appreciates the web's highest quality fonts".

The very visual layout makes it easy to browse through the many fonts to find just the right one, making it a worthy font bookmark.

November 5, 2007 in Design Resources

Font Sugar: only the totally awesomest fonts

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Font Sugar promises only the most totally awesomest fonts and delivers them in both free and pay fonts.

A worthy bookmark for fontaholocs.

October 31, 2007 in Design Resources

54 Typography Resources Every Designer Should Bookmark

54 Typography Resources Every Designer Should Bookmark is a nice list which has some great typography article links as well as links to some great typography tools. As always, there may not be a lot new here but nice to have it all collected in one place.

Worth browsing and bookmarking for future reference.

October 28, 2007 in Design Resources

100 (Legal) Sources for Free Stock Images

100 (Legal) Sources for Free Stock Images - a nice list of sources for free stock images, from popular, well-known sites like FreeFoto to smaller, lesser known sources. Worth bookmarking for future reference.

September 26, 2007 in Design Resources

15 Excellent Examples of Web Typography

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Typography lovers site "i love typography" offers up a nice collection of website typography inspiration in their article 15 Excellent Examples of Web Typography. Part 1.

Worth a read for some great examples of typography done well. As this is identified as "Part 1", watch the site for more, as well.

September 20, 2007 in Design Resources

I Love Typography

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i love typography - is a great website for type lovers, with liniks to articles, resources, font foundries and much more.

A worthwhile bookmark (or RSS Subscription) for anyone who has an interesting in fonts and typography.


August 21, 2007 in Design Resources

Blank Product Templates for Graphic Designers

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Blank Product Templates for Graphic Designers - a "one stop source for blank product templates for designers".

The article lists dozens of links to sources for blank product templates , including book covers, DVD cases, billboards, boxes and more.

A handy reference source worth a bookmark if you find yourself in need of blank product templates.

August 19, 2007 in Design Resources

10 Lists Every Designer Should Bookmark

10 lists every designer should bookmark | Daily designer news - a nice round-up list of lists that are handy for designers and bookmark worthy.

August 14, 2007 in Design Resources

ddfont: all the fonts you'll ever want

Download fonts | ddfont.com - all the fonts you'll ever want. - a nice new (to me) font site.

I like that all the fonts appear under each letter of the alphabet on one page (it gets tiring clicking through pages on font sites), BUT, the load time of the page is a bit long with all those images. Categorization by font type is also missing, which makes it hard to find a particular type of font. That said though, a nice site for font browsing.

July 27, 2007 in Design Resources

10 Free Stock Photo Download Sites

Favorite 10 Free Stock Photo Download Sites is noteworthy in that it doesn't include the usual suspects. The 10 listed here include some that I wasn't aware of and some might be new to you too.

July 19, 2007 in Design Resources

LInks to Royalty-free icon sites

Free royalty free icons sites - a nice list of links to sites that are offering royalty-free icons for web development. Each link also indicates the license the icons are released with, so you can easily refine your search via license.

July 12, 2007 in Design Resources

16 Best Loved Fonts in Web Design

16favefonts.png 16 Best-Loved Font Bits In Web Design is based an an article from Smashing Magazine, which rounds up the fonts most web designers reach for first.

The list includes the web-safe choices, as well as those that would be used with sIFR techniques or as images.

July 8, 2007 in Design Resources

xcavator: better stock photo search

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xcavator – Advanced Image Search Engine by CogniSign is a new site that promises to make searching for that perfect stock photo a lot easier.

Search by tags, dominant colour or similar to (by dragging and dropping or uploading an image).

Nice interface and appears to have a decent catalogue of images. Definitely worth a bookmark for future stock photo searching.

June 22, 2007 in Design Resources

Some really nice fonts for download

Peter Saville Graphic Design - fonts - scroll down to see the fonts and note that there are several pages. Just scroll down more to navigate to more font pages.

Windows True Type only.

June 21, 2007 in Design Resources

TypeWiki: Fonts used by large commercial sites

TypoWiki has compiled an extensive list of large commercial sites with the fonts they use.

It's interesting on an individual level (McDonald's uses the Akzidenz Grotesk font) but also interesting to see how certain fonts are used on a lot of sites (Frutiger, Univers, Franklin Gothic and neue Helvetica seem to make the list quite often), as well as which type of font (serif/sans serif) are used for what type of sites.

June 4, 2007 in Design Resources

Favorite Free Fonts

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My Favorite Free Fonts - 25 of them and sure to be a new one in there for just about everyone. Worth a look.

April 28, 2007 in Design Resources

3 Stock Photo sites that might be new to you

I'm always on the lookout for free stock photo sites. To that end, here are three that I've discovered recently that were new to me, so might be new to you, too.


FreeMediaGOO - features not only free images, but free audio, textures and Flash snippets as well.

unprofound - a nice collection that can be sorted by basic colour (just click the colour swatches on the top of the page).


free range stock
just register for free to access a nice library of images free to download.

April 22, 2007 in Design Resources

Grunge Textures

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Grunge Textures - Free Stock Photos, Images, Backgrounds and Digital Art - a nice collection of grungy textures free to use under the Creative Commons License.

April 11, 2007 in Design Resources

22 Essential Icon Sets

iconsets.png 22 Essential Icon Sets lists a lot of nice resources for free icon sets, most of which probably aren't new to many, but it's nice to be reminded of what's out there through lists like this.

April 9, 2007 in Design Resources

Fonts 500: The web's top 500 free fonts

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Fonts 500 displays what is says are the web's top 500 free fonts. You can view the fonts using their font names for preview or, a nice idea, use your own custom text as the preview. The custom preview makes this site a nice way to preview fonts for logos and the like.

April 7, 2007 in Design Resources

Chosing the right font for the job

DesignersMind: Choosing the right font for the job!, a great read on chosing fonts.

"Designers spend a large portion of their work time contemplating the aspects of text and/or font. In order to help understand the importance of font, ask yourself “What differences are there between the font and text of professional designs as opposed to low quality work?”. "

The article outlines the three things to look for in making the right font choice for your project.

April 2, 2007 in Design Resources

Urban Dirty: free texture stock photos

urbandirty.png Urban Dirty: Free texture stock photography for your artwork, desktop and design "is a regularly updated online photo library featuring 143 gritty, grimy and sometimes slimy images for use in design and artwork creation."

Urban Dirty isn't a huge library at the moment but the images are certainly very useful for grunge or "dirty" designs and they are free to use under a Creative Commons Licence.

March 26, 2007 in Design Resources

Getting Started with sIFR

Dynamic text replacement - .net magazine walks through how easy it is to implement rich text fonts into your web pages using sIFR, giving headings and pullquotes a professional look.

I've experimented with sIFR before and it really is a great web design tool to break away from the core fonts for things like headings and quotes. The biggest obstacle for me however, was that I don't have Flash, so creating the Flash font was a bit problematic. That was until I discovered the sIRF Font Embedder program, which will convert any TTF font into a SWF Flash file for use with sIFR. (Requires .NET 2.0).

Although the sIFR Font Embedder is alpha sofware, it worked great for me and is the perfect solution for the Flash-less who want to work with sIFR.

March 20, 2007 in Design Resources

5 really great grunge fonts

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5 Excellent Free Grunge Fonts | Bittbox "These are 5 of the (in my opinion) best free “grunge” or “eroded” typefaces of late." They are indeed very nice for anyone looking for grunge fonts.

By the way, Bittbox is an excellent resource for design and graphics, particularly graphics "freebies". It's well worth a look around if you haven't visited there before.

All the fonts highlighted at BittBox are all from font designer Gyom Seguin and you can see these and more fonts by this designer at daFonts.

March 20, 2007 in Design Resources

Better Font Management Tips

Got fonts? Got lots of fonts? Digital Web Magazine offers up some suggestions for getting control of them, whether on Windows or Mac, using the OS's built in capabilities or 3rd party software solutions (both freeware and commercial).

A good resource for any and all fontaholics.

Digital Web Magazine - Better Font Management

March 6, 2007 in Design Resources

Collection of Stencil Fonts

stencilfonts.png Resources - Stencil Revolution - a nice selection of stencil fonts, free to download for PC or Mac.

Be sure to check out the "Links" section at the top of the page for links to more resources for fonts as well.

February 21, 2007 in Design Resources

Ten Design Blogs You Must Read

Ten Design Blogs You MUST Read - a great list. I don't know if we MUST read them but I think we probably should for sure.

February 14, 2007 in Design Resources

Handy tool to convert TrueType Fonts to sIFR Flash files

sIFR is a great script that allows web developers to move beyond basic web fonts and replace html fonts with a Flash replacement of any font. The one catch for some folks though is converting a font into Flash if you don't have Flash. Here's a handy tool that can turn any TrueType Font into a Flash font for use with sIFR. Convert TrueType Font to Sifr Flash File

February 7, 2007 in Design Resources

Best Fonts of 2006

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February 7, 2007 in Design Resources

Fontshop's 100 Best Fonts

The 100 Best Fonts (Die 100 Besten Schriften) - the site may be in German? but font names are universal. There are a lot of the fonts you'd expect in the top 10 and a lot of my favourites in the list as well. Interesting and a good way to explore new font options.

January 24, 2007 in Design Resources

15 Tips to Choose a Good Font

Typies: 15 tips to choose a good text type - a look at what to look at in type to make usage decisions for various uses.

December 30, 2006 in Design Resources

Sparkl.us: the web designer's search engine

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Sparkl | The Web Designers Search Engine - powered by Google CSE and boasting over 1400 hand-picked sites for the best web design results for your search time.

December 10, 2006 in Design Resources

A look at popular web 2.0 fonts

ning.jpg Great Fonts for Web 2.0 takes a look at the font choices of some popular web 2.0 sites. I tend to think of web 2.0 fonts as being clean, sans serif fonts, but the 9 sites highlighted in this article show that isn't the case. Nice article.

November 13, 2006 in Design Resources

Neat Fonts

I had a major deja vu moment when I clicked over to Neat fonts - Discover Free fonts from all over the web. Hadn't I linked to this a while back? No, apparently that was Better fonts, which is exactly the same premise as this one, only with a different layout.

So ... I'd say pick one or the other as your font resource of choice, depending on whether you prefer fixed or fluid, gray or black.

October 30, 2006 in Design Resources

A Stock Icons Round-up

stockicons.png Smashing Magazine takes a look at a nice variety of stock icons that are available around the web today. Stock Icons: An Overview

October 24, 2006 in Design Resources

Font Table

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maratz.com: Table of web-fonts - hows the most common Windows fonts, at different pixel sizes, small, medium, large, bold and italic.

Opening the page in different browsers will show how the text will look cross-browser as well.

Handy bookmark.

October 22, 2006 in Design Resources

LuckyOliver: new stock photo site

luckyoliver.pngLuckyOliver is a community of photographers and artists who buy and sell photos. - just new on the scene and operating similarly to StockXchg etc.

If you're a photographer, you can sell your photos on LuckyOliver. If you're a blogger/designer/whatever, you can buy photos starting from $1 to $5 mostly, using tokens that you purchase.

October 17, 2006 in Design Resources

Free Font Manifesto

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Free Font Manifesto - a new movement to encourage more quality fonts in the public domain.

This site offers links to some quality fonts currently available to all, as well.

October 16, 2006 in Design Resources

The 7 Worst Fonts

LMNOP: America's Most Fonted: The 7 Worst Fonts - I don't normally point to the "worst" stuff, but I loved this. America's most fonted! And not only that, their choices are right on. Definitely fonts to be added to our "to avoid" list.

October 13, 2006 in Design Resources

17 Free Quality Fonts

Smashing Magazine | 17 More Free Quality Fonts - because good, free fonts are always link-worthy!

October 11, 2006 in Design Resources

Mis-printed Type

misprinted type 3.0_ art, design and type (1998-2005) Eduardo Recife - an excellent source for freeware and commercial grunge fonts.

October 10, 2006 in Design Resources

Find photos by color with Yotophoto

I've posted about Yotophoto previously, but they've added a new feature that makes it worthy of another link. Yotophoto | Find free photos... fast! and now, find photos by color. That's handy!

September 28, 2006 in Design Resources

Better Fonts: An easier way to find fonts

If you've ever spent time scrolling through pages and pages of font samples, you'll appreciate the one-page simplicity of Better Fonts. Just select the font name on the scrolling list on the left and a sample of that font will appear on the right. Nice.

September 19, 2006 in Design Resources

FontFinder Finds Fonts Fast

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FontFinder.ws (find fonts fast) is not a font repository, but rather a font search engine. A great way to search a lot of font sites at once.

September 7, 2006 in Design Resources

Texture King Free Stock Textures

Texture King: Free Stock Textures - for all your webdesign texture needs!

August 21, 2006 in Design Resources

Online Font Tester

Font Tester - Online Font Comparison Tool - Preview Fonts - Compare Screen Type - not much to say beyond that title! A great resource and definitely bookmarkable as a great design tool for regular use.

August 19, 2006 in Design Resources

Urban Fonts

Urban Fonts. Download Free Fonts and Free Dingbats for PC and MAC - another handy font bookmark.

July 16, 2006 in Design Resources

OFFSite Free Fonts Site

OFFSite - a worthy addition to your bookmarks for all your font needs.

June 28, 2006 in Design Resources

EveryStock Stock photos

everystockphoto.com - your source for free photos - another one to add to the list of stock resources!

May 27, 2006 in Design Resources

9800 Fonts for Free

I didn't count them, so I have to take their word for it but there are definitely a lot of them. And a handy font viewer, too.

9800 Free Fonts, fonts for free, font finder, download free fonts, free typography

May 26, 2006 in Design Resources

Installed Fonts Survey Results

Code Style: Top forty font survey results for Windows, Mac and Unix family fonts combined - recently updated, this survey charts the percentage of users that have a certain font installed on Windows and Mac machines. Very useful when you want to veer away from Arial and Verdana.

May 5, 2006 in Design Resources

everystockphoto

everystockphoto.com - your source for free photos - I believe this new site is basically a search engine for other stock photo sites at present, but looks like it will probably develop into more, so a worthy bookmark.

April 3, 2006 in Design Resources

Free Icons Roundup

Free! Icons for your website or application - a good roundup of free icons available from around the web, with usage information and preview.

March 6, 2006 in Design Resources

A huge list of Freeware Font Sites

Graphics N Graphic Design Blog Huge List of 200 Freeware Font Sites n Font Types n Formats - really huge. Another site to bookmark for reference.

January 18, 2006 in Design Resources

A Really Big List of Free Stock Photos

Graphics N Graphic Design Blog Free Stock Photos for Graphic Designers & Web Designers - is offering up a really big llist of free stock photos, a few of which are new to me. A worthy bookmark.

January 18, 2006 in Design Resources

25 Best License-Free Fonts

Vitaly Friedman | Blog: 25 Best License-Free Quality Fonts - a lot of good font choices here, in a variety of styles.

January 1, 2006 in Design Resources

A Really Big List of Stock Photo Sites

Photoshop Tutorials Blog: Free Stock Photos - a lot of them! Puts my list on my Resources Page to shame.

December 31, 2005 in Design Resources

Favorite Fonts of 2005

Our Favorite Fonts of 2005 Part 1 | Typographica - a nice list and some I hadn't discovered yet.

December 27, 2005 in Design Resources

yotophoto

Yotophoto | Find free photos... fast! - not a stock photo site but a photo search engine. the search targets photos in the public domain, those released under Creative Commons, GNU and other free images. When free is what you're looking for, this would be a good place to start.

November 24, 2005 in Design Resources

Gradient Image Maker

Dynamic Drive: Gradient Image Maker - This online gradient image maker is a cool tool, especially for the photoshop-phobic.

November 22, 2005 in Design Resources

Header Backgrounds

Header Backgrounds - Another Step-by-step Tutorial by Veerle - nice and useful tutorial.

October 17, 2005 in Design Resources

Burning Well.org

BurningWell.Org - Free Public Domain Images and Photos - a great collection of free-for-use, public domain photos that have been donated by photographers around the world.

October 17, 2005 in Design Resources

20 Best License-Free Fonts

Vitaly Friedman | Blog: 20 Best License-Free Official Fonts - nice list!

October 16, 2005 in Design Resources

YotoPhoto

Yotophoto | Find free photos... fast! - searches popular stock photo and public domain sites for free-to-use photos, based on your search parameters.

August 20, 2005 in Design Resources

Icons for your web pages

Drunkey Love Icons - some good looking and free icons to spruce up your web pages.

August 9, 2005 in Design Resources

Type Navigator

If you're looking for a font, trying to identify a font or just generally in to fonts, the TypeNavigator is a great bookmark.

January 16, 2005 in Design Resources

Free Fonts

Free Fonts search and download engine - a nice way to find fonts.

December 24, 2004 in Design Resources

Typewriter Fonts

Typewriter Fonts have a certain charm, if you're looking for something different.

February 25, 2004 in Design Resources

Bloggrounds

Free Blog Backgrounds from Citrus Moon.

December 10, 2003 in Design Resources

Stock Photos Resource

B-STOCK | Free Stock Photography - free for personal and non-commercial use.

November 22, 2003 in Design Resources

Fonts

On snot and fonts - I don't name em, I just bookmark them ; ) A whole lot of font links, nicely categorized. [via Veer: The Skinny]

November 5, 2003 in Design Resources

Blue Vertigo

Thanks to Lea for the email letting me know about BLUE VERTIGO | Web Design Resources Links. What an excellent resource site!

July 7, 2003 in Design Resources

Assorted Resource Links

Free Stock Photos:

dieBlen
Picture Station
Media Photo

Photoshop:

Adobe Evangelists
Anders Qvicker
Photoshop Tutorials

Fonts:

Sketch Pad
Famous Fonts

April 18, 2003 in Design Resources

Resource List

Donna at Delirious Cool points to a nice list of design resources posted at Snazzycat.

April 5, 2003 in Design Resources

Pix Pics

Pix Pics: Stock Photography by the Pixelitas - stock photo resource.

And another one - Image After. (Cleaning out my bookmarks tonight! :)

February 15, 2003 in Design Resources

Font Bookmarks

Bitmap Fonts is a nice collection of pixel fonts and Font Garden is just a nice collection.

If you find yourself needing to identify a font, this is a great collection of font resources.

January 25, 2003 in Design Resources

Fonts

Gimmefonts is a great font resource. Unfortunately, some of the cool features have been disabled due to recent misuse. Still a great site though. I love the preview feature.

January 6, 2003 in Design Resources

Free Stock Photo Links

Morgue File
Image After
Get the Pixel
Open Photo
Inertia Stock

December 20, 2002 in Design Resources

Fonts Organized

If you love fonts (and who doesn't ;), check out Kristine's latest project. - Kristine's Font Organization. Very nice, Kristine!. I can highly recommend the font lister program as well, as I use it regularly.

December 4, 2002 in Design Resources

Free Stock Photos

inertia stock.xchng 003 // the leading free stock photo site is another great resource for free stock photos!

Thanks to Leann for the link.

November 17, 2002 in Design Resources

Image Cafe

Image Cafe is a great resource for free photos. Their November album is just up and has some terrific photos.

October 31, 2002 in Design Resources