Tag: typography

Find out why the SitePoint team recently decided to change our typeface to Roboto, a clean font with open licensing.

It's easy to forget how difficult, hacky and expensive custom typography used to be. Today Monty delivers four tips to help you use Google Fonts like a pro.

Read Should You Be Brave with Your Typography? Ask Mr. Robot. and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Like hand-holds on a climbing wall, paragraphs give us an obvious path to traverse a wall of text - except when we they get lost on a small screen.

Today Laura Elizabeth delivers a 'typographic tour du force' that will lift you from middling to master in 12 minutes. Read and see.

Menus are complicated design challenge and designers have been thinking about them for a long time. What can we take from great restaurant menu design?

If web design is 95% typography, then choosing the best typography for your UI is your most critical design decision. Chris Bowler is here to help.

It's as mysterious as it is ubiquitous, but what is the origin of the ampersand? Kaitlyn gets us up to speed with this ancient tool of text.

Images are part of our brain's native OS, but the written word has accuracy and precision. Helen tries to find the balance point between images and text.

From Monaco to New York to Chicago, type has often been linked to cities. Apple's newest typeface San Francisco, takes a big city into small places.

Looking for three typography books to take away to a desert island? Simone has the perfect set for your lifeboat. Your rescue notes will look amazing!

Read Create a Shaded, Stylized Text Effect in Photoshop and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Read Create Melting Typography in Photoshop and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Learn how to create an icy text effect in Photoshop. Learn how to mix a few textures, filters, and layer styles to create an icy text effect in Photoshop.

A primer on Typography. Learn about the anatomy of typography, its classifications & how to use this information to improve your skills with typography.

This is a look at fonts that have very specific purposes. These fonts are great for their intended use, but wouldn't work well in other applications.

Read Create a Branded Text Necklace in Photoshop and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Read 15+ Beautiful Examples of Script Typography in Product Design and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Read Create a Blueprint Effect With Photoshop and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Read Create Rich, Detailed 3D Typography With Photoshop CS6 and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

I love fonts! Hands down, scrolling through gobs of new fonts is one of my biggest time-killers (2nd only to Facebook). From a creative standpoint, fonts are a major driver of design for me. Often, I look for the right font prior to any other design element.

Read 10 Places to Get Free and Premium Webfonts and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Read Twelve Terrific Typographic Logos and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Read Do You Rely On Embedded Fonts? and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Read 30 Best Grunge Fonts from Around the Web and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Read What’s So Smart About Those Quotes and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Read Three CSS Typography Tools For Web Designers and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Read Wordmark.it Helps You Pick Your Fonts and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Read Eight More Alternatives To Comic Sans and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

Read Southern Savers Case Study, Part IV: Typography and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.