Improve your Typography Skills with These Tips Articles

As a designers we should know that typography is really important in a design and should pay more attention to it. And making the right typographic choices for your brand identity design is absolutely critical to successfully capturing the image you want to project.

Really good sources via: www.brandstudio.com

The Big Book of Font Combinations

The Big Book of Font Combinations is an expansive collection of carefully crafted typeface pair samples. The font pairings in BBOFC will inspire you and give you back time you need for your design projects. Use the font combination examples straight out of the BBOFC in your next project, or use them as a springboard for your own creativity. However you use the BBOFC, it’s bound to inspire and is a trustworthy companion to consult for all kinds of design projects and general study of typography. You can see more here: bonfx.com

The Big Book of Font Combinations is an expansive collection of carefully crafted typeface pair samples. The font pairings in BBOFC will inspire you and give you back time you need for your design projects. Use the font combination examples straight out of the BBOFC in your next project, or use them as a springboard for your own creativity. However you use the BBOFC, it’s bound to inspire and is a trustworthy companion to consult for all kinds of design projects and general study of typography.

The Big Book of Font Combinations is an expansive collection of carefully crafted typeface pair samples. The font pairings in BBOFC will inspire you and give you back time you need for your design projects. Use the font combination examples straight out of the BBOFC in your next project, or use them as a springboard for your own creativity. However you use the BBOFC, it’s bound to inspire and is a trustworthy companion to consult for all kinds of design projects and general study of typography.

The new and better Helvetica - Sonoran! ;)

Nearly thirty years in the making, the highly anticipated Sonoran is finally here.

Typeface designers Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders first began work on Sonoran in the early 1980s, drawing inspiration from the classic Swiss typeface Helvetica. 
“Helvetica is a great font, people really love it. But it does have its flaws,” says Nicholas. 
“With Sonoran, our main goal was to fix Helvetica’s mistakes.”
Read more here: idsgn.org ;)

The faces behind the fonts - Anuthin Wongsunkakon.

Thai typographer Anuthin Wongsunkakon answers view questions at myfonts.com

Maven Pro - FREE Sans Serif font!

Maven Pro is a FREE sans-serif typeface with unique curvature and flowing rhythm.

This sans-serif typeface was designed in late 2010 by designer Joe Prince, courtesy of Vissol Ltd. It was part of a small, on-going project that quickly led into something great. Maven Pro's unique curvature and modern forms make it very distinguishable and unique when in context. It blends styles of many great typefaces and is suitable for any design medium. The best part about Maven Pro... it's 100% FREE!
You can downloaded and read more about it here: www.vissol.co.uk 
 

Rising stars of February on MyFonts

I've just received a newsletter from MyFonts.com with some nice looking types. 
All looking like a rising stars but Aviano is looking really good.
Check it out: new.myfonts.com

My old friend great works!

 I've found my old friend works on Typo Jungle.
And I have to say they are great, I love this two especially.
Check more of Peak21 works on his website: www.peak21.net

Interview with Jos Buivenga

Museo typeface creator Jos Buivenga in this small interview on MyFonts.com

What are the fonts in use?

Good inspiration of many fonts mixed together in use.

Fonts In Use is an independent project from Sam Berlow, Stephen Coles, and Nick Sherman. Opinions expressed are those of each author and images shown are the property of their copyright holders. 
See more here: fontsinuse.com

How to kern type perfectly

There are lots of tips on the best way to perfectly kern a piece of type.

Great trick from Maggie Lewis found here: typecastcreative.

30 Fonts that every designer must/should know/own

Very nice article about best fonts/typefaces that every designer should know.

Sorted by alphabetical order. There are 15 serif fonts and 15 sans-serif fonts. 

A brief description of what each font is best suited for is provided however are not limited to this.

You can find whole article here: justcreativedesign. 
After reading please leave a comment and let me know which one is your favourite.

Great free font!

Reklame Script is a brush typefamily consisting of four weights. 

It was designed by Hannes von Döhren in 2010.
Also more fonts on:

www.myfonts.com/reklame-script

Interview with Neil Summerour

Neil has published over 40 typeface families (over 420 fonts). In 1992 he opened his own foundry, Positype. He has also lectured on type design in Japan and the U.S., and his fonts have been used by the likes of XXL Magazine, MTV, VH1 and Sony/Tristar.

www.ilovetypography.com