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 […]
Free fonts versus paid fonts
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 Fonts: Our Top 6 Google Web Fonts (Part Three)
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 […]
Google Fonts: How to Use Google Web Fonts (Part Two)
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 […]
Google Fonts: What are they? (Part One)
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 […]
Five places to find free commercial use fonts
If you are finding it difficult to to find the perfect font, for free, don’t panic. Here are our top 5. […]