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Branding work by Matthew Wong.

A personal project I am working on, with the end goal of pulling off an all-black and white website.

Fine Acts collaborated with a dozen amazing Black typographers and lettering artists on an open pack of protest posters – ready to be used in action, all yours to print and share. Take them to the streets. Place them around your neighbourhood. Put them on your windows. Send them to friends and loved

When we built websites we usually started by defining the body text. The body text definition dictates how wide your main column is, the rest used to follow almost by itself. Used to. Until recently, screen resolution was more or less homogeneous. Today we deal with a variety of screen sizes and resolutions. This makes things much more complicated.

A game that helps you learn to kern type

Inspirational font combinations and color palettes free to use in your own designs.

A searchable archive of typographic design, indexed by typeface, format, and topic.

A typographic dating game that helps you learn how to pair typefaces.

Why do all memes look so similar? There are a few very good reasons.

This book was written in 1969 for a lettering course at the Pratt Institute. This chapter is a treasure trove on spacing - between letters, between lines, and between words. Lots of great examples and ideas here to improve your legibility in Layout 1, and a good head start for some of the ideas we'll discuss next class with creative typography.

Google Fonts is a great place to get free fonts of all kinds. Just keep in mind that you'll need to evaluate each typeface for quality, readability, and how it matches the information you're trying to communicate. Does the typeface have several weights to help you control hierarchy? Are the shapes balanced and easy to read for body copy? Great typefaces are at the root of great design. Good typography will support your design without becoming noticeable, while bad typography and typeface choice will detract from it.