Usage rights are complicated, and I am not a lawyer, but I recently had a client who wanted to use a simple font for their logo. They had not purchased the font, but gotten it with their Microsoft Word software. Could they legally use the font to create their logo? Unfortunately, this is not a…
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Font Inspriation
In my new venture to learn more about web design (as opposed to development), I’ve recently been looking into typography and came across this excellent article full of real life inspiration. http://designinstruct.com/inspiration-web-design/google-fonts-examples/ The article features only free Google Fonts, which I love. The article not only shows you design examples but also gives you the…
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Fun Looks for Google Fonts
I already love Google Fonts, but we I recently learned you can add effects to them through Google’s own API – how great is that?? I don’t recommend using all these effects, but have fun trying a few: See the full list of effects and find out more here: https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/getting_started#Effects To use them with your…
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How Can I Change the Fonts on my WordPress Site?
One of the most common requests I get from customers is to change the fonts on their site. WordPress has a very nice visual editor and it is easy to make text bold, italic, underlined, and even to change text color, but changing fonts is a bit more complicated. Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t give users a…
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Make Your Own Graphics with Canva.com
I just discovered this little gem called Canva. Although I LOVE design, I’ve always had a better brain for coding than designing. But Canva makes me look like a pro! Canva has prepared beautiful images with artful text and design and allows you to customize the designs to your needs. Many options are free and…
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Adobe Typekit and Choosing a Great Font
I had heard about Adobe Edge a while ago, but many of the fonts I found there were the same as Google Fonts, my “go to” place to find fonts. However, I’m not always happy with how Google Fonts renders. The letters aren’t always as smooth as I would like them to be on the…
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Google Fonts
I was just looking over my site and realized I had never done a post on Google Fonts, one of my main website design tools. Although this should probably be included with the 101 tutorials because it’s one of the first things most of my students ask is to how to change the fonts, it’s…
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