I like the name of this site. I’m like a squirrel, always downloading and saving new free fonts.
Category Archives: Typography
Free Fonts at Fonts 101
If you need a font for a project that is not available in Word or Photoshop, you can subscribe to this website and they will send you an email with a free font you can download every day.
3 Rules for Selecting Fonts for Your Online Course
Introduction to Typography – Part II
As I mentioned earlier, I am taking a class called Introduction to Graphic Design at lynda.com . The instructor is Justin Seeley. In it he lists his 15 rules for typography. Some of the more important ones are:
Introduction to Typography
This is the first of several posts on the topic of typography. First, what is it? Typography is setting type for a design project. When you take a course in typography one of the first terms you will run into is type face. A type face is a family of fonts. Everyone who has used a word processor such as Microsoft Word is familiar with fonts. A font is a collection of characters that follow a unified design, such as Times New Roman, Helvetica, Arial, etc. All fonts are either serif, sans serif, or monospaced. Serifs are the short decorative lines such as the horizontal bar under the “r” in this word: Georgia. I typed the word “Georgia” in the Georgia font, a serif font. I have just switched to a sans serif font, Verdana. In a monospaced font such as Courier, there is the same distance between each character. An example of this type of font is Courier New.
William Addison Dwiggins
Typographer William Addison Dwiggins coined “graphic design” in 1922. If you’re interested, you can read all about him here: