For graphic design professionals, typography speaks so much about your creative sense and attitude. Using the right font style, you should consider the accuracy, precision and balance of geometric forms that will give your design the elegance and sharpness they deserve.
Steiner is ideal for logos and general design. It isn’t very suitable with word-processors as it lacks some symbols and letters. It’s free both for personal and commercial use
Cardo is a large Unicode font specifically designed for the needs of classicists, Biblical scholars, medievalists, and linguists. This font is free for personal, non-commercial, or non-profit use.
Romeral offers aside from optimal legibility an elegant style, rounded forms and sharp geometric structure of its letters. It is designed to produce a noticeable visual impact.
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How Do You Piss Off a Designer?
by Dimitri Simakis in Buzzfeed
When you use fonts like the most frowned upon Comic Sans in your formal text use; when you tactlessly stretch the text font size; when you don’t observe correct color combinations for your text and background; when the dreaded gradient effect is overused; and, when you make your own unattractive style with Bevel Tool.
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Avoid these shameful mistakes. Learn professional graphic designs and creatives at the Graphics and Publishing Seminar 2014
April 1 – 4, 2014 at AIM Conference Center Makati City.
