Creating Shiny Retro Text

Here’s a nice text effect that’s great to use in your design, poster, ads, etc. This shiny retro text will definitely give a new look and add funkiness to it. Edmar Cisneros shows you how you can create this amazing typographic illustration that has colorful type treatment. Using Photoshop’s tools and effects, you can achieve [...]

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Add Fonts to Your Site Using Google Web Fonts

Gone are the days of font shortage. Thanks to Google, they have introduced their Google Web Fonts web service which makes working with typography so much easier for web designers and developers. So how can you add these fonts to your own site? Here’s what I learned from a tutorial created by Basic Use. The [...]

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We Love Icon Fonts

Looking for other icon font sources aside from Google Web fonts? Here’s an alternative to it. Tim Pietrusky of Germany came up with the We Love Icons collection, which is a counterpart of sorts to Google’s Web Fonts but only icons fonts. Although this is just in public beta phase, the collection is continually increasing. [...]

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Typecast: Better Typography with Less Hassle

Typecast allows you to design and experiment in your browser with real content and test over 23,000 web fonts, including the most popular ones that include all weight families. It also allows you to compare font combinations to see what works. Typecast lets you build a clean and well-detailed HTML and CSS as you design, [...]

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Adobe Edge Web Fonts

Adobe Edge Web Fonts is powered by Typekit which features hundreds of free web fonts for all you graphic designers out there. It gives you access to a wide library of font collections that include contributions from Adobe, Google and other creative designers all over the globe. It requires no account kit configuration that makes [...]

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Shape Type: HTML5 Typography Game

Got creative block? Here’s a cool way to relax: the Shape Type typography game. This online game is for you type fans and according to Scott Gilbertson of Webmonkey.com, to play it, you have to drag the curve adjustment tools to perfect the letterforms in different fonts. The game also helps you to be more [...]

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Habana Font

Habana is a Geometric Sans-Serif font inspired by Cuba’s capital city and designed by New York designer/illustrator Bonnie Clas. This beautiful and voluptuous font is available in uppercase. Incoming search terms for the article: habana font habana font free font Habana habana free font habana fonts Cubas capital city font free habana font tipografía habana [...]

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Silverfake Free Font

Here’s a cool font that would look good in your design projects. Created by Alexey Frolov a.k.a. MRfrukta, Silverfake is a new contemporary slab serif wide font. Alexey’s design brings that unique classic feel, the old school-type style that is perfect for retro designs but can also be applied in modern styles. Although it contains [...]

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Free Icon Font: Typicons

Websites without icons are unimaginable because icons are now a staple element in web design. Here’s something I’ve found that is made by Stephen Hutchings, and it can help you make your designs cooler. Named Typicons, it’s a free-to-use icon set embedded in a webfont kit for easy use in your UI. It comes with [...]

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Creating a Cool Unusual Text Effect

Created by the guys at Photoshop Star, this tutorial shows you how you can make a cool unusual 3D-like text effect using some of the tools in Photoshop. It’s so simple that rookies can easily make it work. For this text, Familian font was used. The tools you’re going to need are Gradient Tool, Radial [...]

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