Typography

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #154

paul0v2 — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:59:02 +0000

Friday fresh free fonts is a series of free fonts posted every Friday, yes I know it's awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#154 and make sure to comeback for more next week.

Click here to view all Friday Fresh Free Fonts

Rex

by FontFabric

FT Anchor Yard

by Nick Quintero

Uralita

by Ipanema Grafica

FlorenceSans

by Apostrophic Labs

About the author

Hi there! I'm Paulo Canabarro, 26 year old web designer - paulocanabarro.com I'm from Brazil currently living and working out of Providence RI, USA. I'm truly passionate about design of all kinds, finding and sharing inspiration here has become part of my life. If you like to know more about me or get in touch visit my website paulocanabarro.com Stock me at Twitter and Dribbble

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Logo Design: 3D Typography

PauloGabriel — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:31:14 +0000

We keep going through our weekly journey checking out great logos! We're thinking ahead and we want to find new topics, good ones, to share with you guys. Last week we had a great post about logos with swords, and today it's all about logos with 3D Typography!

Every week we search through our favorite galleries: Logopond and Dribbble. Both are a great communities for designers everywhere. Also, if you you'd like to suggest ideas for the next subjects, please, tell me by sending me sending me a tweet: @paulogabriel. Cheers! ;)

About the author

Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo Gabriel, designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil, born in 1984. I have worked as a webdesigner since 2006, but websites and blogs have been a hobby for me since 1999. Here in Abduzeedo, I try to bring only the hot stuff for you... and hope that all of you enjoy my posts! For more cool stuff, you may also follow me on Twitter.

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Typography Mania #133

paul0v2 — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:14:08 +0000

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography design works on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. Users can submit their typography designs.

Click here to check out all the previous Typography Mania

Make sure to click on each image to go to original location where you can check out more work from each artist and designer.

Submit your Typography work

From now on you can submit your typography mania piece by adding your image to Abduzeedo's Flickr Group and use the tag Typography. I will search through and handpick the best pieces every week.

Images

Submitted by Chris Hannah

Submitted by Arkadiusz Radek

Submitted by bobsta14

Submitted by molimao

Submitted by bryrye

Submitted by marianne.ruth

Submitted by DrasTres

Submitted by mauromatos

Submitted by zhinzhin

Submitted by Pretty/Ugly Design

Submitted by bobsta14

Submitted by jamesblevins

Submitted by Sean Kane Design

Submitted by devgupta86

Submitted by eugeniaclara

Submitted by StuartWade

Submitted by bombo!

Submitted by _daq_

Submitted by javierpp a.k.a monofunk

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Introducing the Skillful Johnny Crap

marcos333 — Tue, 22 May 2012 05:10:11 +0000

Jonathan Bergeron aka. Johnny Crap is a really skillful traditional illustrator from Quebec, Canada. Using a lot of popular references on his artworks such as Star Wars, Johnny got some hardcore feelings that remind me of the master Jim Phillips.

You can check his last updates on Johnny artworks on his Tumblr/Blog, he also got a Behance Profile.

About the author

My name is Marcos Torres, I'm Graphic Artist from Porto Alegre, Brasil. You can get to know more about me by acessing my Personal Website or by following me on Twitter: @marcos333. You can also see some of my last projects at my Flickr.

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Friday Fresh Free Fonts #153

paul0v2 — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:06:30 +0000

Friday fresh free fonts is a series of free fonts posted every Friday, yes I know it's awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#153 and make sure to comeback for more next week.

Click here to view all Friday Fresh Free Fonts

Patinhas

by Ipanema Grafica

Download Patinhas

Retro Town

by Mostafa El Abasiry

Download Retro Town

Stroke

by The Kinetic

Download Stroke

EdmondSans

by James T. Edmondson

Download EdmondSans

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Typography Mania #132

paul0v2 — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:55:25 +0000

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography design works on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. Users can submit their typography designs.

Click here to check out all the previous Typography Mania

Make sure to click on each image to go to original location where you can check out more work from each artist and designer.

Submit your Typography work

From now on you can submit your typography mania piece by adding your image to Abduzeedo's Flickr Group and use the tag Typography. I will search through and handpick the best pieces every week.

Images

Submitted by RedlineCreative

Submitted by Jay Roeder

Submitted by José Ramalho

Submitted by nuthon

Submitted by Maurício.Cardoso

Submitted by dzeri29

Submitted by bobsta14

Submitted by jamesblevins

Submitted by RICARDO FX

Submitted by Ryan Phipps-Mitchell (RPM)

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Friday Fresh Free Fonts #152

paul0v2 — Fri, 11 May 2012 14:01:00 +0000

Friday fresh free fonts is a series of free fonts posted every Friday, yes I know it's awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#152 and make sure to comeback for more next week.

Click here to view all Friday Fresh Free Fonts

Coneria Script

by Måns Grebäck

Download Coneria Script

Rio Oro

by Neale Davidson

Download Rio Oro

Chapleau

by Neale Davidson

Download Chapleau

Vermin Vibes

by Andrew McCluskey

Download Vermin Vibes

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Awesome Type Work by Young Jerks

paul0v2 — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:58:28 +0000

Young Jerks is the one man design studio of Dan Cassaro, located in Brooklyn, New York. Young Jerks is specialized in custom type, illustration, logo design, and powerful 70's rock and roll. Check it out!

For more visit youngjerks.com

Highway Typeface

HIGHWAY is an attempt to capture the charm of hand-done early to mid-century type, the kind of beautiful lettering that happens when a human hand tries to recreate something mechanical. Created during (and inspired by) a cross-country roadtrip, Highway may very well be the first typeface created in the back of a camper. Tons of alternate characters, ligatures, and OpenType sorcery make for endless custom lettering for logos, signage, and seminal prog-rock double albums. Roll on, Babes.

The Manual

I worked on some illustrated type for The Manual inspired by old speedball/how-to lettering books. It's a manual for how to write The Manual. See what I did there? Get the shirt over at United Pixelworkers.

Wise Men

Lettering for the cover of a new novel by Stuart Nadler, Wise Men.

Deus Ex Machina

Type treatments created for motorcycle company Deus Ex Machina.

Shipwrecks of the Modern Age

Type treatment and cover proposal for short story by the talented Nik Ruckert.

Ace Hotel

I was honored to be asked to create a mural for The Ace Hotel in New York. If you get a chance to stay there ask for room 617! Thanks to Jou-Yie Chou for setting this up.

Living Social

Type treatments commissioned for 2 television spots by LivingSocial.

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Typography Mania #131

paul0v2 — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:53:31 +0000

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography design works on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. Users can submit their typography designs.

Click here to check out all the previous Typography Mania

Make sure to click on each image to go to original location where you can check out more work from each artist and designer.

Submit your Typography work

From now on you can submit your typography mania piece by adding your image to Abduzeedo's Flickr Group and use the tag Typography. I will search through and handpick the best pieces every week.

Images

Submitted by senzobean

Submitted by AndrésSebastián

Submitted by lanceenjoyscereal

Submitted by denali206

Submitted by WRDBNR

Submitted by Creativ7

Submitted by Michael Rubini

Submitted by keiermann

Submitted by Warron Bebster

Submitted by bobsta14

Submitted by Sean Kane Design

Submitted by Phil_LD

Submitted by StuartWade

Submitted by christineui

Submitted by Jean Mosambi

Submitted by dou_glas

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Amazing Paper Typography

guest — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:56:23 +0000

I love it when two art forms collide and something beautiful emerges. Paper typography is one such type of art that has fascinated me since I was little. Maybe it's because I learned about origami in grade school, and now also have a love of typography. So when I see these two artistic methods that I love combined, it's mesmerizing.

This collection is a roundup of some gorgeous paper typography. Some of these are simple letters while others are complete phrases built using paper techniques. A few were created simply for a creative outlet, while others have been featured on the cover designs for catalog printing pieces.

On a more pragmatic note, I find studying these pieces useful to better understand 3D type. Notice how the shadows fall and the perspectives work to help your eye recognize that these are, in fact, not just computer generated images. The textures also play an important role, not to mention the different elements within each letter of different colours.

Tara Hornor has a degree in English and has found her niche writing about marketing, advertising, branding, graphic design, and desktop publishing. She writes for PrintPlace.com, an online printing services company that offers business cards, catalog printing, posters, brochure printing, postcard printing services, and more printed marketing media. In addition to her writing career, Tara also enjoys spending time with her husband and two children.

Hand Lettering and Typography by Sean McCabe

paul0v2 — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:20:22 +0000

I've been following the work of Sean for a while and I'm always impressed with the quality and creativity of his hand lettering, not to mention that he comes up with new stuff every other day. Take a look for yourself, if you like typography you sure will be inspired by this. Enjoy!

For more from Sean McCabe visit seanwes.com & @seanwes

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Hipster Text Effect in Photoshop CS6

abduzeedo — Mon, 07 May 2012 05:05:48 +0000

A few weeks ago we posted a tutorial showing how to create a hipster text effect using Pixelmator. Now we decided to show you the same effect using Photoshop CS6. As we had said, we will be doing that in Fireworks and CSS as well. So stay tuned.

So in this tutorial we will show you how to create a simple text effect with a very trendy hipster look. We will use just basic filters and layer styles to achieve the effect. The whole process won't take you more than 30 minutes.

Step 1

Open Photoshop CS6 and create a new document. The one I created is 2560x1600 pixels. After that fill the background layer with #e4cba9.

Step 2

With the Horizontal Type Tool (T) add a text using the font Sulivan. You can download it at http://www.losttype.com/font/?name=sullivan. Use the same font as the background and use the fill type for the font.

Step 3

Duplicate the font layer and gange the Blend Mode to Overlay. Chage the font type to Sullivan Bevel.

Step 4

Duplicate the layer again and change the Blend Mode to Overlay and use the Sullivan Regular for the font.

Step 5

Select the text layer created on step 2. Duplicat the layer and change the Blend Mode to Multiply. Move it 1px down and 1 pixel left.

Step 6

Keep duplicating the layer and moving down and left to create a nice 3D effect.

Step 7

After you duplicate a few times will have an effect like the one in the image below.

Step 8

Group all layers used to create the 3D effect and then merge them into one layer only. After that go to Layer>Layer Styles>Color Overlay. Use #c66d33 for the Color with Multiply for the Blend Mode.

Step 9

Let's create another 3D effect but now going to the top right.

Step 10

Repeat the same process to merge the layers into one and apply the Color Overlay, then go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Use 7.5 pixels for the Radius.

Step 11

Go to Filter>Blur>Motion Blur. Use 45º for the Angle and 50 pixels for the Distance.

Step 12

With the Rectangle Tool (U), create a rectangle in the center of the document, below the texts and just above the background. Go to Layer>Layer Style>Patter Overlay. Use Graphy 80 by 80 pixels patter from Subtlepatterns.com. Change the Blend Mode to Linear Burn.

Step 13

Add a complement text using the font Mensch. You can download it at http://www.losttype.com/font/?name=mensch. Repeat the same process to create the little 3D effect.

Step 14

Add a new layer on top of the others and then fill it with anoter pattern from subtlepatterns.com. I am using Rcocky Wall. For the Blend Mode use Multiply at 50%.

Step 15

Go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Photo Filter. Use Sepia at 60%

Conclusion

You can duplicate all layers and merge them into one, then apply the Noise filter to add a nice texture on top of the design. The idea of this tutorial was just to show you how to create a simple vintage look typography effect using photoshop. We did that in Pixelmator before and now in Photoshop. The next one will be in CSS :) I hope you enjoy it and have fun trying to create your own.

Download Photoshop File

Click here to download the Photoshop file used for this tutorial

About the author

Abduzeedo is a blog about design. There are all sorts of articles for those who want to look for inspiration. Also you will find very useful tutorials for the most used applications out there, with a special selection of Photoshop Tutorials and Illustrator Tutorials. You can get in follow us via Twitter at @abduzeedo

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Friday Fresh Free Fonts #151

paul0v2 — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:08:13 +0000

Friday fresh free fonts is a series of free fonts posted every Friday, yes I know it's awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#151 and make sure to comeback for more next week.

Click here to view all Friday Fresh Free Fonts

Rosarivo

by Pablo Ugerman

Download Rosarivo

Alex Brush

by TypeSETit

Download Alex Brush

Tienne

by Cyreal

Download Tienne

Tetra

by MRfrukta

Download Tetra

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Typography Mania #130

paul0v2 — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:54:08 +0000

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography design works on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. Users can submit their typography designs.

Click here to check out all the previous Typography Mania

Make sure to click on each image to go to original location where you can check out more work from each artist and designer.

Submit your Typography work

From now on you can submit your typography mania piece by adding your image to Abduzeedo's Flickr Group and use the tag Typography. I will search through and handpick the best pieces every week.