Every designer would agree that typography is a huge part of web design. But the process of choosing which fonts to use can be a hassle. Thankfully there are several free online webapps to help you decipher online font families, pick your favorite(s), and design text in a way to match your layout. Take a gander over ...
Using multiple fonts in any design is an excellent way to create interest as well as to draw a viewer's eye to important content. Choosing the right mixture of fonts, though, can be difficult. Without some knowledge as to how to fit the different typefaces or font styles together, a design could become quite ...
Due to how the text rasterizer works, fonts look heavier on OS X and iOS, compared to to other operating systems. And, trying to close this gap with per-browser CSS styles is a common pattern. Type Rendering Mix is a tiny JavaScript library that allows to apply styles only when Core Text is used (iOS and OS ...
There is a growing number of web fonts, each have lots of items and, sometimes, we only need few from each. Font Combiner is a free and web-based tool for picking the letters from each font and generating a custom one. It also empowers us with features like changing the kerning, subsetting, hinting options ...
It is already possible to find very nice icon fonts around but there is always room for new ones. Ionicons is a fresh + free icon font with a slick design and a very good fit for web apps as it includes many "action icons". The font has items for arrows, comments, loaders, users, media controls, weather, ...
There are nice script fonts and the nicer ones. MightyDeals is offering a discount on a such "nicer" one called Melany Lane. The font is elegant-yet-fun, very characteristic, has a beautiful flow and can be read so easily. It is created by Yellow Design Studio's and comes as the whole family of 5 sets (Melany ...
Not every PSD file is created equal : ). Sometimes they are very badly layered/grouped and it is hard to work with them. In case you are trying to find out the fonts used in such a PSD file, .PSD Fonts can help. It is a website that simply asks you to upload the PSD file (directly or via Dropbox), analyzes the ...
For a good looking typography, the number of characters in a line is pretty important. And, this is difficult to automate only with CSS media-queries. FlowType.JS is a jQuery plugin which can auto-resize the font-size and line-height (according to the width of the element wrapping it) so that our content is ...
Dripicons is a good-looking free icon set of 90+ items which are designed in flat style. It includes icons that are suitable for web apps, like: arrows, media, charts and more. The set is available in many vector formats (PSD, AI, EPS, PDF, SVG) and also as a webfont.
