It’s now time for the final chapter in iFactory’s series on famous typographers. We started with the sans serif styles of the Swiss masters Adrian Frutiger and Max Miedinger, and looked at the classical influence of John Baskerville’s transitional fonts. And now, for our fourth and final instalment, we’ll be looking at the often controversial […]
In typography there are two basic ways to style letters – with serifs, or without. Serifs are the lines added to the strokes of letters to make them more defined – and in modern times sans serif typefaces are supreme, prized for their clean lines and elegance. But fonts using serifs have their place too, […]
Helvetica is a very stylish font. For many decades, Helvetica has been the go-to typeface highly favoured by graphic designers and anyone looking for a simple, elegant and bold look. Created by Swiss born Max Miedinger in 1957, this deceptively simple sans serif type was first known as Neue Haas Grotesk, but in 1960 that […]
The English poet John Keats wrote, “a thing of beauty is a joy forever.” But just imagine if he’d published that line using a font like Comic Sans – you’d hardly take it seriously! Fonts are the size, weight and design of a typeface, governing the way each individual letter is presented, which greatly influences […]
It’s important to get the font right for your graphic design – it can really make or break the look of your site. Many computers offer a host of free typography but sometimes these just aren’t good enough. Often, it’s best if your brand has a unique look that’s completely suited to your company, and […]
Google has many fantastic fonts as part of their Google Fonts website, which we have been introducing you to this recently on our iFactory blog. If you have missed the first 2 parts in our 3 part series, check out Google Fonts: What are they? (Part One) and Google Fonts: How to Use Google Web Fonts (Part Two). In our […]
The Google Fonts website is incredibly easy to use, which makes their range of fonts very accessible for people working at any level of web design. In part two of our series on Google Fonts, we look at how to use and install Google Fonts on your website. If you missed Part One, on what are […]
Web designers were delighted in 2010 when Google launched a website called Google Fonts, offering hundreds of free open source fonts, available for anyone to use. The fonts are optimised for the web, which means they are ideal for using in web design. Like any website for free fonts, it’s a fantastic resource for designers […]
If you are finding it difficult to to find the perfect font, for free, don’t panic. Here are our top 5. […]
What is TypeKit? Adobe’s TypeKit is a subscription font service. That means that rather than pay a huge one-off fee to buy the rights to use a particular fonts on your website, you simply pay a subscription fee and can access hundreds or even thousands of professional fonts to use on your site, 100% legally. […]