If you’ve ever had trouble choosing between the time-honored and the modern, you’ve come to the right place. Even though a web developer has a limited number of font choices to choose from, ill-thought font selections often cancel out all the hard work that goes into a site’s design.
Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. The digitization opened up typography to new generations of visual designers and lay users. Today, typography is often used in advertising to reflect a company’s brand,to impress the reader and to convey different messages.
Choosing the right font is a crucial step in graphic and web design. Whether it be a website that you’re designing, or simple a homemade greeting card, the typography used can either make, or break, the message that you intend to convey.
Calligraphy in typography adds an element of sophistication and class. The word itself is derived from the Greek words “kallos,” which means beauty, and “graphe,” which means writing. It is no wonder that such font type is popular to use to heighten and make elegant any design project that is being worked on.
The first step was to take art out to the streets. Now we’re taking it back from the street to our homes. This may mean that Graffiti has lost it’s rebellious attitude, but it also goes to show the amazing progress it has made since the dark ages, when it was still considered as vandalism or just plain dirty.
Professor Karen Kresge from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania decided to use graphic design to tempt graphic design students to get into world renowned typographer Ilene Strizver’s lecture.
It is truly amazing how letters, one of the most basic elements in the human culture, can be so beautiful. That’s the art of typography, and the people who master it deserve admiration and respect no less than painters, architectures, photographers and so on. Every graphic designer deals with the subject sooner or later, but not every graphic designer is a type artist.
There is no escape from the vintage trend. And why should there be? It’s a pretty cool trend. The New is so out of fashion. The Old, on the other hand, just gets more and more fashionable. Vintage clothes, vintage furniture, vintage photo albums – it’s all just a way to show that the present still appreciates the aesthetics of the past.
Graphic design too has not escaped the popular retro look, and together with polka dots and mustaches, vintage fonts are considered a necessary accessory for this look.
Enhance your website and light that text on fire using a different techniques from photo manipulation to creating 3D text with fire coming from inside. The final outcome for each of these five fiery text effect tutorials will be different and adding your own tweaks can make it even more interesting.
You will find a fiery inferno of fire, a retro-looking burn in flames, beautiful text combined with photo manipulation, a glossy fire reflection, and a very realistic approach with Flames shooting out of 3D text and crackling background.
Since man has been putting words into written form, the artistry of writing has taken an important place in language. Calligraphy is the technique used to transform basic script into a beautiful piece of work to not only read, but by which to be entranced.
Each language and culture has multiple versions of their own script or font. Japanese calligraphy, otherwise known as Shodo, epitomizes the beauty of the written word and romanticizes the job of a scribe. The Japanese script is distinctive, not only in the character, but also that it is written in a vertical manner.
Adobe Photoshop has endless possibilities for text effects and we’re always looking for different techniques to apply towards our own projects. With the holidays quickly approaching, it could help you create some pretty amazing text effects. You can use a similar background and general effect on the text itself, but sometimes even the position of light itself can make the difference between night and day.
