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Thursday, June 25, 2015

30 Patriotic Fonts for Your Fourth of July Designs

America’s beloved Independence Day celebration is right around the corner! If you are planning to design party invites, flyers, special sales announcements or anything else America-themed to mark the Fourth of July, there are tons of fonts that can add that patriotic feel. Check out 30 of our best patriotic fonts below.

1. Prohibition Typeface

Celebrate historic America and its Prohibition Era with this Prohibition Typeface from Fort Foundry. It is an excellent font if you’re going for something old-fashioned and classic.

2. Maritime Champion

Celebrate America’s seafaring history or a collegiate ivy-league feel with Maritime Champion by Kyle Wayne Benson.

3. Palm Canyon Drive

In love with the 50s? Palm Canyon Drive celebrates mid-century California: a magical place where Post-war optimism fueled the popularity of everything from Hollywood to roadside diners.

4. Bolonat Hand

Bolonat Hand is a hand-drawn font specifically based on pre-war cafe signs. The font is classic and straightforward with a historic, recognizable aesthetic.

5. War Club

Thinking of the Wild West or America’s tougher side? Choose War Club Font by Scott Smoker this Fourth of July.

6. Workhorse Rough

Celebrate the strong power of America on Independence Day by using Workhorse Rough, a bold font created by Borges Lettering.

7. Church in the Wildwood

Church in the Wildwood is a font that celebrates America’s classic, natural and historic feel.

8. Spokane Regular

For a font that reflects that classic 1950s era of America, choose Spokane Regular from dougepenick. It’s the perfect choice for an ad-era, “Mad Men” feel.

9. Brayden Family

Brayden Family is a classic, bold script font — similar to what’s commonly associated with the classic American Coca-Cola. It’s perfect for a fun or festive American-themed event for the fourth.

10. Wilder Family & Handdrawn Kit

Any fans of the Wild West can take advantage of the Wilder Family & Handdrawn Kit, which is a vintage typeface ideal for any occasion celebrating America’s cowboy and Indian heritage.

11. Warrior

Harken back to the time when America won the Revolutionary War with this Warrior hand-drawn typeface by Vintage Design Co. The typeface is inspired by the American outdoors and everything vintage.

12. Cabrito Inverto

Ready for a Fourth of July fiesta? Cabrito Inverto from insigne is the perfect way to announce your festive, fun gathering.

13. Bootstrap

Recall American pioneers with this Bootstrap set by Aerotype. The font set comes with two variations of the font — one distressed and one less distressed.

14. Thistle Creek Font

Thistle Creek Font from Nicky Laatz is described as being “a little vintage-Western” — which is the perfect aesthetic for any event celebrating America’s history.

15. Voltage Regular

Another vintage, historic-looking font to harken back to a different period in American history is Voltage Regular created by Laura Worthington.

16. GrandGibson Typeface

Baseball is one of America’s favorite pastimes, and GrandGibson Typeface is a great way to celebrate this. The font was inspired by the typography on the jerseys of The Homestead Grays team and was named after legendary catcher Josh Gibson.

17. Attica RSZ

For another fun and bold vintage aesthetic this fourth, check out Attica RSZ from Resistenza.

18. Modern Whiskey

Modern Whiskey is a font with a Western twist created by Trivia that is an excellent choice for any event that is hipster, vintage or just plain trendy.

19. Athletico

Athletico is a varsity-inspired font created by Leitmotif to use this Fourth of July for any athletic or collegiate-inspired event.

20. Deputy Serif

Fun and quirky, Deputy Serif is a serif font created by Black Bird Foundry with a western, unique flair. It can be used for a range of situations, from upscale to understated.

21. Western Grit

It’s Me Simon created Western Grit, a distressed typeface that is an excellent choice to celebrate the historic aspect of Independence Day this summer.

22. Houston Pen

Travel back to the days of the American Constitution with Houston Pen, a font created by Three Islands Press that resembles old-fashioned script handwriting written in ink.

23. 60 Fonts from the Civil War Era

Go way back to one of America’s toughest periods with New Blazing Star Press’ 60 Fonts from the Civil War Era. This kit is the culmination of 3 years of research into the typography of the Civil War era, and features 60 of the most common fonts, ornaments, and borders used between the years 1850 and 1865.

24. Barack Volume with 3 Styles

Barack Volume is another typeface created by URW++ to celebrate America’s current president.

25. American Scribe

Another font created to mimic the old-fashioned handwriting in the Constitution is American Scribe by Three Islands Press.

26. North Western Bundle

Don’t just celebrate the West: celebrate the American Northwest with this North Western Font + Vectors Bundle, which comes with a font and images that celebrate the Northwestern United States.

27. Nueva York

Nueva York is a handmade font created by The Texture guy that caters to many Latin-based languages and has a fun and festive feel.

28. Number Five Rough

Number Five Rough by Laura Worthington is a script font that is bold and distressed— a great way to create a vintage or retro American feel.

29. Shelton Slab

HVD Fonts created Shelton Slab, a slab typeface that has an eroded look and resembles an old-fashioned typewriter.

30. Fontastik Bundle

Get five great fonts to celebrate America when you purchase this bundle from ThunderPixels Store, including American Handmade Typeface.

This Fourth of July, you can get further in the spirit of the day by using a handcrafted font to celebrate America and its history. Our shop owners have a great selection of American-inspired fonts to choose from, as well as photos, images and graphics to pull together any Fourth of July design project.

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Monday, June 8, 2015

65 Free Fonts for Beautiful Headlines and Titles

This round-up focuses on clean, distinctive and those easy-to-read free fonts that designers always crave – fonts for beautiful headlines and titles. Whether you use these them on the web or in print, these are the types (pun intended) of legible fonts you will need to give your typography the professional impact yours readers or users demand.

All 65 of the fonts have been confirmed to be free to use on either personal or commercial projects, but please do check the licenses just in case they do change, it can happen from time to time.

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Sunday, May 31, 2015

Top 50 Free Icon Fonts for Web Design

Way back in 2012 we published our first Icon Font round-up, which included both premium and free sets, in this post we have collected 50 of the best free icon fonts that have been released since then. Here they are:

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5 Things I Learned from Creating My Own Fonts

Fact: There are over 1.2 gazillion fonts in the world. Well, maybe that’s not an exact figure (or a real one at that), but if you’ve recently looked online in a hunt after the perfect serif, sans, display, or dingbat, you’ll have noticed that there are countless options.

The perfect typeface can make the difference between a good design and a great one (though I can’t say that it will bring a mediocre piece to greatness). The wrong typeface, however, can make an otherwise great design suffer.

I’ll spare you the smug jokes about Comic Sans and Papyrus, but in today’s fast-paced design world, using notoriously over-used typefaces is a thing of the past. With easily accessible font-creation software, and online seller markets like Creative Market, practically anyone can design and create their own fonts. Today, I’d like to share with you my own experience, and some of the things I’ve learned over the last year.

1. Try it, You Might Like It

When I opened my Creative Market shop a little over a year ago, my intention was to create and share things that I love, and that would be useful to other designers. I was drawn to creating clip art and patterns, and had never thought about the seemingly daunting task of creating a font! It wasn’t long before I was overcome with inspiration and itching to try my hand at typeface design.

A peek at some of the fonts I’ve created since opening my Creative Market shop.

A quick Google search led me Paintfont.com, an admittedly amateurish program made to let anyone draw and scan their characters, upload their printable, and install their own font in minutes!

PaintFont’s printable template

Let me be the first to tell you: it’s far from perfect. Once scanned, the program will slightly smooth and simplify your scanned characters, and you don’t get any say in the kerning, and as for any tweaks you want to make, you’ll need to start over… it’s basically hit or miss.

I made these slight imperfections work for me, by creating purposely awkward, hand-drawn fonts, and have been really pleased with the positive feedback that came my way.

If it sounds unappealing, perhaps you’ll reconsider when I tell you that professional font creation software (called font editors) can cost hundreds of dollars, and PaintFont is free. I would definitely recommend trying it out, just to test out if type design is for you.

2. Find your Style

It can be intimidating to try and dip your toe in what is a super-saturated market. But remember, you’re the best person at being you, so instead of trying to mimic what’s already out there, find your voice as a designer and share it with the rest of us!

Your sketchbook is the perfect place to start brainstorming ideas for a new typeface

A good place to start is creating your own handwriting into a font (as long as it’s legible) people love unique hand-drawn styles.

3. Be Willing to Spend the Big Bucks

I recently splurged on Fontlab Studio, one of the more well-known font editors. By splurged I mean I cried as I typed in my credit card number. (Just kidding. I only cried when I actually opened FontLab for the first time, more on that in a moment.)

But I considered it an investment: as I make better fonts, I can feel comfortable charging more for them, and eventually it will pay off.

Another popular font editor is Glyphs Mini, but there are many more options out there, so do some research to find which editor is right for you.

Glyphs is just one of many font editors out there

4. There’s A Steep Learning Curve

As I mentioned, I was taken aback by all the menu options in the program. I thought that knowing what ‘kerning’ and ‘leading’ meant was enough. Boy was I wrong!

Luckily, you don’t have to utilize all (or even most) of the options, but you will have to take the time to learn quite a few of the basics.

FontLab Studio

You’ll find plenty of resources to help you learn the ropes, and many forums and friendly advice from fellow type designers are available on the Internet.

5. Have Fun and Always Grow

Creating a font is a labor of love. From finding a way to make all your characters work cohesively, to slowly but surely fine tuning them in illustrator, and finally painstakingly perfecting the kerning, seeing a typeface through from idea to fruition can take weeks and months.

Is that a long time? In my opinion, yes. Is it awesome to see some of your fonts adorning some amazing designs and products out in the world, and to know that you’re a part of it? Big yes.

I’d love to know, have you given typeface design a try? Did you like it? What tips would you share with someone who’s eager to give it a go?

Shelly Laslo is a graphic designer and illustrator. She is the owner of DrawBabyDraw Designs, where she sells handmade design resources which give your work a unique, one-a-kind charm. You can also check out her work on Instagram.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

20 Beautiful and Free Hand-Drawn Fonts

Designers can never ever have enough fonts in their toolbox, and hand-drawn fonts are the perfect choice if you want to add a little charm and personal touch to your work. With appropriate and well thought-out use of white space, hand-drawn fonts can give your designs some added style and elegance.

In this collection, we would like to present 20 of our favorite handwritten fonts. We’re sure you will love them!

All of these fonts are free, but please do double-check the license before using them as from time-to-time they do change.