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Terry Lee Stone breaks down design strategy so that you can utilize it to elevate your work.
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Typography + Fonts: The Best Fonts for Web & Graphic Design
Ultimate Resource: Examples of Typeface Classification
Most typefaces can be divided into four basic groups: those with serifs, those without serifs, scripts and decorative. Such a system can help you identify, combine and choose typefaces.
Type Trends: The ‘Lock-Up’ Type Look
Dr. Shelley Gruendler and Tiffany Wardle deSousa break down current type trends in design and show you what works and what doesn’t.
Type Trends: Slants and Angles
Two noted typographers discuss current type trends in the first of a 3-part series. This edition focuses on slanted and angled lettering, both trendy now.
Hot Faces & Cool Type
How to know which typefaces are fresh, stylish and hip? Expert Allan Haley has you covered. Read on for several tasty type trends to incorporate in your design work.
Behind the Design: Sweet Simplicity in Jam Packaging Design
Louise Fili was up to the challenge of infusing sweet simplicity into the revamped packaging design for Bonnie’s Jams. Typography took center stage for the label.
Behind the Scenes with Illustrator Shaw Nielsen
The self-promotion issue of HOW magazine’s cover is playful, kindly loud and perky. Meet the illustrator behind this cover — Shaw Nielsen.
10 Free Fonts—Plus Free Font Download Tips
Check out 10 of HOW’s favorite free fonts, and get expert advice on the do’s and don’ts of free font downloads.
Web Type Revolution
Web typography, according to Jason Cranford Teague, has made a dramatic change for the better in the past decade. Find out why in “Web Type Revolution.” Plus, read about 10 trends in web type.
Top Designers Divulge Guilty Pleasure Fonts
Yes, it’s true, graphic designers have guilty font pleasures. Even the most sophisticated type users can’t help themselves. See which fonts these famous designers secretly pine after.
7 Typographic Sins Thou Shalt Not Commit
Typographic Hell. It’s not a pleasant place to be. Some of us are headed there, and we’re making others suffer along the way. But fear not: Redemption is here. In the July Issue of HOW, designer and typography junkie Jim …
