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10 New High-Quality Fonts for Your Designs

Henry — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:19:25 +0000

If you’ve been a reader of WDL for a while, you’ve probably noticed that we try to make your life a little easier. One way we do this is by finding high-quality freebies for you to use in your designs. If we spend the time hunting them down, you don’t have to. That way you can focus on doing the fun stuff, like creating amazing work. With that in mind, here we’ve rounded up 10 new high-quality fonts. Enjoy!

Piron

Age

01.Base

Bext

Amperisk

Oblik Serif Bold

Musa Ornata

QUB

SAF

Bebas Neue

20 New High-Quality Fonts for Your Designs

Henry — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:04:13 +0000

We’re always on the look out for high-quality freebies for our readers. Whether it’s textures, Photoshop brushes, or icons, we love finding top notch free files and sharing them with you. We do the searching so you don’t have to. This saves you time and helps you focus on what’s important. In this post we’ve rounded up 20 new high quality fonts for you to use in your designs.

Dekar

Sertig

Dan

Pincoya Black

CR21 Modern

Arcus

Code

St Marie

VAL Stencil

Laconic

The Lobster Font

Crimson Text

Modo

plus

Toeris

Nobile

Camisado

Acid

Fracmetrica Black

20 Elegant Fonts for Clean Design

Henry — Fri, 28 May 2010 05:27:02 +0000

Whether it’s textures, Photoshop brushes, or icons, we love finding top notch free files and sharing them with our readers. We try to post at least one collection of freebies every week. We do the searching so you don’t have to. This saves you time and helps you focus on what’s important.

This week, we are bringing you elegant fonts for clean design. There are 20 in all and they’re all free. A few require a quick registration, but they’re well worth it.

XXII Menga

Circula Medium

Gnuolane Regular

Expressway Regular

Raleway

Balham

Sertig

Edelsans

Candella

Acid

Cicle

Tertre

Cantarell

Titillium

Mister Jun

Springsteel

Hattori Hanzo

Merge

Mr Jones

Adelle Basic

Nautik

26 Free Progressive and Experimental Fonts

Henry — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:38:17 +0000

Design is constantly changing and moving forward. However, typography is one aspect of design that seems to resist progression. When it comes to typography, there are standards and traditions that have been around for many years. These rules are there for a reason – to make sure that letters and words are legible. But to move forward, sometimes rules have to be broken. So for this post we’ve rounded up 26 free progressive and experimental fonts. These fonts might be pushing the limits of traditional type design, but the results are stunning.

Rounded

Cube 02

Paranoid

Mod Gothic

Ultras

Tozuna

Nano

Slukoni

VAL

Gordala

Quadranta

Metal

Playtime

Sylar Stencil

Sans Serious

Kain Block

LOT

Clutchee

Tribbon

KnucklePuck

Etcetera

Amputa Bangiz

Betlog Square

Slimbo

Days

FILE

20 Beautiful Script Fonts for Your Designs

Henry — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:32:16 +0000

Since script fonts are based on the fluid stokes of natural hand writing, they’re a great way to add a personal touch to a design. The only issue I have with script fonts is that I’ve always had trouble finding good ones when I need them. Assuming you may have faced the same problem, I’ve taken the time to round up 20 beautiful script fonts for your designs.

As you’ve probably noticed we love finding and sharing freebies with our readers, especially fonts. So we hope that you find these as useful as our other font collections.

Cream Puff

Ginga

Ball Park

Androgyne

Angel Tears

Forelle

Carington

Dirty and Classic

Chopin Script

Selfish

Black Jack

Freebooter

Machine Script

Learning Curve

Quigley Wiggly

Shardee

Porcelain

Wexham Script

Honey Script

Marketing Script

50 Retro and Vintage Web Designs to Inspire You

gmuller — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:36:10 +0000

Last week, Henry posted an article with 30 Fonts Perfect for Vintage and Retro Style Design and I simply loved the first font of the list, the matchbook typefaces. By the time I saw it I could think of several good ways to use it in web design, print design on even other ways. I was so inspired that I decided to do a selection of retro and vintage websites for our weekly web design inspirational post.

I really like retro and vintage stuff… websites, posters, print, adds, everything. I think it’s amazing how an ‘old style’ still get our attention and appreciation. For this selection of retro and vintage web designs, you will see retro and vintage elements, fonts, images, colors, textures, etc. I hope you enjoy the selection. And of course, if you have a cool retro/vintage site to share with us, the comments are open.

Eighty Two Design

targetscope

singularityconcepts.com

fortyseven media

thigpendesigns.com

icblind.com

edgewater

WebDesigner.ro

Level 2 Design

Custom Design

Kretivia, New Media Production

Big Rig Design

THUNDERfuel

Thrush

mediaBOOM

Radio – The New York Moon

fivecentstand.com

LATAKA

Ali Felski

The Dollar Dreadful

phizz.biz

Style 4 you

Mister-Aero

iso50

Tricycle Terror

sensisoft.com

Small Stone re-cordings

prahba.com

tomatic

Visit Cascadia

Tennessee

jacksonfish.com

Carrozzeria Verga

the Retrovert

Sauro Motel

Antique Piano Shop

painisgood.com

Eric Henning Magic

The Wayward Irregular

flatwoodsfolkart.com

Brocante Boutique

Buy Vintage Clothing

Farinella

What’s your Problem?

Hipstery

readymadedesigns.co.uk

Team Fannypack

thisbythem.com

huxleyprairiefest.com

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Gisele Muller is someone that recently discovered a new career online. A person that really likes technology, design, photography and creativity. An eternal geek wannabe, tech fan and a communication lover! Current location: Porto Alegre, RS – Brazil. Twitter: @gismullr

30 Fonts Perfect for Vintage and Retro Style Design

Henry — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:09:17 +0000

A Vintage or retro style design is meant to transport it’s audience decades into the past. Designers try to do this by using various design elements such as textures and patterns from a certain time period. But it’s also important to use accurate typography from the time period you are trying to represent.

In this post, we’ve rounded up 30 excellent vintage and retro fonts that you can use in your designs. You’ll notice that these font’s range from a 1920’s look all the way up to the retro typography style of the 50’s.

Matchbook

Bazar, Medium

Embossed Black

Ugly Qua

Hill House

Shrewsbury-Condensed Bold

Caslon

Seaside Resort

Fontleroy Brown

Fusty Saddle

Dirty Ames

Bolton

Dymaxion

Just Old Fashion

Riesling

Goudy Bookletter 1911

Opera-Lyrics-Smooth

Carnivalee Freakshow

Circus Ornate

Upper East Side

Brandon Grotesque Regular (free until April 15)

Ballpark

East Market

BP Script

Rocket Script

Arwen

Anagram

Louisianne

Lemon Chicken

Anastasia

22 Fresh High-Quality Fonts for Your Designs

Henry — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:34:55 +0000

This week, we are bringing you more high-quality fonts that have been created in just the past few months. There are 22 in all and they’re all free. There are a few however that will require a quick registration, but they are well worth it.

Raleway

Orbitron

Public Gothic

Juice

Sonrisa Thin

Prociono

Palm of Buddha

Metal

Hunstrüct

PT Sans

Museo Slab

Playtime

Sylar Stencil

DejaRip

Orial

Kain Block

Otari

Nautik

A_B_ Stochome Modular

Aldo Open

Sans Serious

Kilogram

55 Examples of Huge Typography in Web Design

gmuller — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:31:18 +0000

Choosing the correct typography for your website is a very important part of the design process. And as a website is also a communication tool – a very powerful one – you can use the typography to help you on exposing your ideas! Using HUGE typography, for example, you will get the attention you want and your site will also look cool. You can use huge typo only in a word, a sentence, everything… it’s up to you. Here we will show a selection of very nice usage of huge typo in web design to inspire you to go a little wild on your website typography!

CharlesElena

Chirp >> The Twitter Developer Conference

Happy Cog’aoke 2

Morphix

teez

Sketchen

Digital Podge

zee

Make Photoshop Faster

rareview.com

Me In Motion

Rich Brown

Biz Break

barneyfunk.com

TPUTH

Bills

Boxee

Mulletized

gapmedics.co.uk

merge

sketch.odopod.com

thePlant

carsonified.com

Glitch

goslingo.com

bigcartel

stackoverflow

gummisig.com

Ryan Keiser

finch

Cupcake Creative Studio

Hull Digital Live

Bullet Pr

electricpulp.com

notoriousdesign.co.uk

forabeautifulweb.com

Mark Boulton

Daniel Hellier

visualbox

Brunet-Garcia

fajnechlopaki.com

flashgamingsummit.com

Grow

wordit

objectified

polar gold

elysiumburns.com

blackestate.co.nz

Giant Creative

takeshape.it

Alpha Multimedia

blog.fl-2.com

oliverkavanagh.com

The Urban Landscape Lab

Denise Chandler

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20 High Quality Free Fonts for Designers

Henry — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:39:34 +0000

You may have noticed that we love finding awesome free fonts and sharing them with you. So don’t spend any of your valuable time searching the internet for more fonts. We’ve got you covered.

Here are 20 high quality free fonts for you to use in your designs. In this selection, you will find a variety of styles. Some are more progressive, while others are just impossible not to love, like Sketchetica – a hand drawn version of Helvetica. Whether you’re doing posters, t-shirts, or web designs, you should find these fonts very useful.