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Sunday, February 24, 2019

Top 10 Font Combinations for 2019




As a designer, we know that selecting the correct font will completely change the appearance of your brand. Some fonts will make your business seem old while others will be modern. Majority of large brands will change their logo, or font style to keep them looking fresh and up to date with the latest trends.

It can seem like a daunting task, to find that perfect font combination for your project, however, there are many useful tools available that will offer font suggestions for you.

One such helpful tool was recently created by Bold Web Design, an Adelaide, South Australia based company, who understand the importance of selecting the correct fonts for your business.



Based on this new tool, we have compiled a list of the top 10 font combinations for 2019.

All of these fonts can be downloaded for free from Google Fonts.


1.   Playfair Display with Source Sans Pro
2.   Merriweather with Oswald
3.   Montserrat with Merriweather
4.   Raleway with Lato
5.   Elsie with Roboto
6.   Dancing Script with Josefin Sans
7.   Abril Fatface with Roboto
8.   Corben with Nobile
9.   Spirax with Open Sans
10.   Wendy One with Lato


1. Playfair Display with Source Sans Pro


We simply love this style of font, with its traditional elements is very elegant and perfect for a modern business. It was designed by Clau Eggers Sorense, and gives a feeling of beauty and simplicity. It is a serif font style and is best paired with a sans-serif font like Source Sans Pro. We always recommend that you pair a serif with a sans-serif, this creates contrast and a unique difference between the header font and the sub font.


2. Merriweather with Oswald

The versatility of Merriweather, makes it one of the top fonts for 2019. With its gentle serif, and easy to read design. It should be paired with a font style that has straight thin lines, like Oswald.


3. Montserrat with Merriweather

A modern, stylish font, Montserrat is a style you’d expect to see in a big brand. It’s easy to read and can be adjusted both font weight and height. It can be paired with a more detailed font like Merriweather.


4. Raleway with Lato

This font makes you think of a modern, streamlined style. It has class and elegance all in one package, and is a very soft font style. Perfectly paired with Lato, a thin and lighter weight font, you are sure to create a buzz with this font combination.


5. Elsie with Roboto

A beautiful font, with very gentle subtle swirls and interesting serifs. It’s the type of font you would expect to see on a woman’s perfume brand. Such an elegant font, should be paired with a sans-serif font, like Roboto, because it will not detract from the seed font.


6. Dancing Script with Josefin Sans

An adorable script font that flows with every letter written on the page. These types of fonts are becoming very popular, as they are stylish and elegant. When using a script font, it’s best to pair with a simple font style like Josefin Sans, with it’s very straight lines.


7. Abril Fatface with Roboto

A very happy font style, that really jumps out of the page. Its bold, ambitious, and gives a feeling of confidence. It’s the kind of style you expect to see from a big brand. It needs to be paired with a simple font like Roboto.


8. Corben with Nobile

With its unique rounded serif, this font creates such interest. It can be used in a variety of different font weights, which makes it versatile for many different design options. It should be paired with a lighter weight sans-serif font like Nobile.


9. Spirax with Open Sans

A soft, gentle font, that portrays a level of mystery with it’s flowing letters. It was designed by Branda Gallo, based on the geometry concept of a spirax, which is a line that starts at a centre point and gradually moves away and around that point. Due to this font being so unique, it should be paired with a very simple font like Open Sans as it will not detract your eye away from the seed font.


10. Wendy One with Lato
A wow style font, that’s bold and eye catching, who could walk past this! The unique flow of the letters make it a very interesting font style. It should be paired with a light font like Lato.


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Debbie Morgan

Debbie Morgan, a creative UI Designer from Bold Web Design, loves everything to do with fonts, she finds them fun and interesting. She loves outreaching to fellow designers and creating awesome content for other designers to use.

Sunday, April 24, 2016

Digital Playground for FS Untitled Font by Fontsmith

For the launch of FS Untitled font, Fontsmith published an interactive ‘digital playground’ to let designers explore the typeface in more detail.
This was a completely new approach for Fontsmith and something very different from the usual type specimen sheets.

Digital Playground for FS Untitled Font by Fontsmith

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To start playing, all you have to do is click any cell, then you'll see a playful scene that challenge you while you're getting familiar with the variation of the typefaces in different weight and effects.
Share or embed your favorite scene by clicking the 'Share' button at the top right menus of this font playground page.
You can read the behind the scenes of making this ‘digital playground’ in Fontsmith Blog.
See more about it here: Digital Playground for FS Untitled Font by Fontsmith

Saturday, October 27, 2012

5 Free Art Deco Fonts

Art Deco architecture movement was started in Europe in the first decade of the 20th century and its aesthetic is often characterized by stylized and geometric shapes. The influence of this modern and elegant style also can be seen in typography. The 'Art Deco' font/typeface is always used in display designs with the retro feel and look as their decorative nature. Here are just a few of them and I meant only list the simplest look of Art Deco font which you can download for free. Uppercase typeface, highly condensed and fairly low or extreme high horizontal crossbars are mostly their characteristic. Read More

Aprille Display

Aprille Display is a set of Art Deco style font with geometric look on the glyphs and numeral characters. Some characters are as roundy as solid circle and some are condensed with high crossbar. Pretty simple one.

Hill House

Hill House font is designed based on the distinctive handwriting of Glasgow architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928). You can embed it for a web design project with Cufon or with @font-face. Another font embedding kits are also accessible on Typekit and Kernest.

Magna


Magna is created with a unique "vintage" style. The typeface is categorized as black condensed and the set contains capital characters and the numerals are very much stylized but keeping their entire construction dead simple.

SF Speakeasy

Speakeasy is a distinctive bold Art Deco type family where you can also download the oblique set. Each of them consist of 202 Glyphs and that's a fairly big number compared to the other font listed here.

Valencia

Valencia is condensed typeface that has 5 weights, with matching obliques for each weight. Its uniqueness stems from it's low horizontal crossbars and its full-circle curves.


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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Selfa - a Serif Font Inspired by Georgia & Garamond Typeface

Selfa is a fairly new font designed by Housseynou Fall. If you pay attention to the finial of certain small character, such as: a, c, f, g, r and s, there's swooshy finish up. The i and j, each of them has a very unique dot. The Standard Ligatures also available for: fl, ff and fi. This font is inspired by two famous classic serif typefaces: Georgia & Garamond.

Since the first release in around July 2011, Selfa has been refined and updated to Selfa ver. 2.
The whole look for this font, both for small character glyphs and caps is classical and elegant, but in the 'new' kind of way.

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Visit Mazefall.com, to download this beautiful Selfa font. The zipped folder includes both Opentype and Truetype File which should work on either PC or MAC.

Check Housseynou's wonderful designs applying Selfa on Dribbble and Forrst.

Selfa is free for personal and commercial work (but please read the designer's license first). You can use it for professional websites, to embed it via @font-face and also for logo design project like what I just did ;).











YES! Just yesterday I published a new logo that is part of my GraphicRiver portfolio, called: Lotusiana. Lotusiana logo is an abstraction of lotus or flower, with geometric shapes. I couldn't think of any other font but Selfa :) ~ I made a few small edits on the 'tu' and put 'orange' color for the 'i' dot. Make a bid offer for Lotusiana logo if you're interested to purchase it for your new business.















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Friday, January 28, 2011

Supria Sans™ Font Family

Supria Sans™ Regular & Regular Italic are free until February 28
In this early year of 2011, Hannes von Döhren released Supria Sans™, an extended family of 36 fonts inspired by the Swiss type design. Its elegance yet sophisticated character could be ideal to solve complex design issues or professional typography.

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Appreciate and enjoy the Supria Sans™ project gallery on Behance!



Supria Sans™ Regular and Regular Italic are free until February 28, 2011.
But what else is free? :D You'll get the specimen posters for free if you decide to buy any weight of this type family!

Download (Buy) Supria Sans™

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Hill House - a Typeface Inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh Handwriting

Hill House was made over 10 years ago as a typeface based on the distinctive handwriting of Glasgow architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928). It is so often used for wedding invitations with a touch of Art Nouveau design style. The font set includes special glyphs for the words ‘to’, ‘at’ and ‘of’, and contains Mac, PC and Opentype formats. It is free to download. You can embed it for a web design project with Cufon or with @font-face. Another font embedding kits are also accessible on Typekit and Kernest.

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Thursday, October 7, 2010

4 Fanciful Sans Serif Fonts Created by Nymphont

I've been a fan of Nymphont's works and previously I used one of them for a business card template: Coffee Latte Card. Glad that I have time to publish a new post today. I put more attention to series of Lauren's experiments in sans-serif. Classic and fancy but they are still looking modern with clean geometric line. Here are just few of reasons why I love Nymphont's fonts and I hope you would enjoy our post featuring The 4 Fanciful Sans Serif Fonts created by Lauren Thompson of Nymphont.


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Jolly Font Family
Free for personal use

Joly looks lovely with some amount of height. I think the perfect kerning, made it appears like this set of font is slightly condensed (to note that particular height). Another uniqueness is probably the bowl you see in small caps, like: 'a, b, and d' which have different roundy curve in the upper and bottom part for each font. I personally love the beauty of the 'J' caps, and all characters type of 'S,V, and W'.
I think it has the potential to use in paragraph text. It has uniform stroke which gives cleaner feel. It looks simple, friendly and feminine at the same time. I'm not sure if you are agree with me on this :)


LT Oksana
Free for personal use

Lauren has been very proud of this LT Oksana, and I couldn't agree with her more! It's one of her best work :) Since its first debut in 2008, it is now updated with kerning revisions and improvements as LT Oksana Version 4.0. Lauren described it as a 'retro' geometric-sans. I would also say that it has Art Deco look. Geometric aspect is what Lauren has explored for this set of font. 'K, Q, and W' uppercases just to name a few. The 'g' two stories lowercase is super smart with an opening at the left side of the loop ;) The low placement of crossbar for 'f and t' smallcaps are just making them more fancy. I also love the look of LT Oksana's ampersand. Lauren has made excellent demo by using this font for the headings element at Nymphont blog.


Champagne & Limousines
Free for personal use


Classic, clean and elegant is the first impression to say. Champagne & Limousines is my favorite Nymphont's sans-serif font. The letters appear once again with geometric shape, and roundy feel. Probably as a result of minimum height of descender or ascender on some fonts but without over-doing it. Champagne & Limousines Bold with sharp edges on 'A, M, N, V and W' caps (as well as the lowercase), is another beauty of this font which make it more legible for display text purpose.


Caviar Dreams
Free for personal and commercial use


Caviar Dreams was actually designed before Champagne & Limousines. But officially published after the first release of Champagne & Limousines. Yes, they are slightly looking similar. But what has differentiated them is their letter-spacing. Caviar Dreams has more pleasant letter-spacing in order to give different looks in various use. Several letter shapes are unconventionally designed. You can start to check the lowercase angled 'e' and also figure the neat curves in letter 'w' lowercase as well as the uppercase. In my personal opinion, Caviar Dreams is the casual version of Champagne & Limousines ;)

NOTE:
Getting ready for your commercial design project? I highly recommend Nymphont fonts featured here. It is also important for you to appreciate Lauren's talent and hardwork by sending donation when you decide to use it for commercial project.
Give a time to check other fonts created by Nymphont


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Monday, April 19, 2010

Solomon - A Decorative & Text Type Family


The new Solomon font is characterized by well-finished geometric designs as well as optimized kerning. The type family includes 12 design styles divided into text family and display (or decorative) family group.

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The Solomon deco pack is created using ornamental work with organic forms, such as spiral or circular elements for the descender, ascender and also for the arc part of certain characters.

You can find both maximum and minimum variations, and that makes Solomon is great for headlines of all sizes or text blocks.

Use and combination of both groups - deco and text family to get unique effect results!

Download Solomon Normal for free until May 10 2010 :D







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Friday, January 15, 2010

Hetilica Bold - a typeface created by Diego Quintana

Hetilica Bold is a hand-written sans serif typeface developed by Diego Quintana as a final project for 2009 workshop class in college. The creation of it was inspired by alcohol selling shops in the province of Cartagena, Chile.

It is an intuitive typeface which hand-drawn with some kind of brush tool. The characters have bolder weight italic posture, highly condensed and their whimsical strokes modulation make them feel more visceral.

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Hetilica Bold comes in all caps cand what I like seeing the very immediate hand-writing stop that created a narrow aperture on 'C' character, also love how the 'K' character is intuitively hand-drawn in its own way.

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This font is free in TrueType format. Whenever you use it, Diego would loves to see some designs that you made of it. I can imagine how great Hetilica Bold for grunge typography poster design with the sense of freedom but slightly studious at the same time.

Visit the Hetilica Bold minisite to download the font ;)

Be sure to check this design set also
Coffee Latte Card








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Thursday, July 9, 2009

5 Fresh Free Typefaces

I just wanna share you what I found recently. 5 Free Typefaces that are relatively new to have a look.

FILE™
fontfabric.com always produce typefaces with contemporary looks. Introducing the brand new FILE™ as a new released typeface by fontfabric.com. This typeface is applicable for any type of graphic design.

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Nata rounded 0.1
Nata rounded 0.1 is a Beta version of David Botella' first Typeface. Bulky and round, and also absolutely perfect to use for any typographic designs.

typeface,typography


Big Boned
Big Boned is the Alpha version typeface that has bold shapes and it is a result of a playful experimental typeface by networkosaka.com.

typeface


Titillium
Titillium is a high quality sans serif typeface, which has professional looks and suitable for display or text purpose. It comes with various font-weight in a set. There is also available Titillium extra-black version to download for free.

typeface,typography


Museo Sans
Museo Sans is a derivative typeface of the well-known Museo. Just note its geometric glyphs which is designed with very precise proportion. This typeface has a great ultra balance of structure.

typography

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Rolet: A Typeface Design by Simon Page


It's been a tough week with many ideas on my mind for the next tutorial. Then I suddenly landed on a great spot of Flickr group: Vectortuts Group Pool. My eyes scanned down on some new submissions and this typographic poster design has caught my attention. The typeface poster was designed by a graphic designer from the UK, Simon Page. What's so special about this poster is that, Simon Page has used his own typeface creation, called Rolet. It will be available soon in vector form. Vector typeface has became widely used by many designers recently to present designs that has POP feel and contemporary or maybe even to create an extreme design look. Rolet is an interesting typeface design which has some kind of 2D layered shapes that are twisted, and the twist produced a smart 3D typeface in overall look. Just interesting! Take a sneak peep on this Rolet Typeface Design.

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Have your say if you like ;)

Sunday, February 15, 2009

5 Top Picked Fonts from Fontstruct

Fontstruct is a great font website where you can build your own font using simple flash based editor, and then share your font design so everyone can download it for free.
Today, I just want to share some of the Top Picked fonts that belong to wonderful font designers found in Fontstruct.

Enjoy the weekend ;)

mostly by kix


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Bolts by jadaze



Ligne Claire by SquarePeg



madie by funk_king



Unbranded v.2 by aaronamar

Monday, September 3, 2007

3 Free Destroyed Typewriter Fonts

I’m coming back with another font review, and don’t be so surprised since this post is closely related to my previous font review: 6 Free Graffiti, Grunge, and Destroyed Fonts.

I think I’m addicted to dig any kind of font that looks ruin apart, dirty and destroyed ;)

Junko’s Typewriter

3 Free Destroyed Typewriter Fonts - Junk'o Typewriter

3 Free Destroyed Typewriter Fonts - Junk'o Typewriter

By: Junkohanhero 2006
Site: Junkohanhero.com
Free for personal use

Junko’s Typewriter reminds me to an old typewriter, because the baseline of this font is not inline or unordered. Not much textures, but pretty solid in each character. Classic shape of terminals and serifs definitely make them different than any other typewriter fonts.

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Sunday, August 19, 2007

6 Free Graffiti, Grunge, and Destroyed Fonts

I browse the Da Font recently and I decide to share the most “destroyed” fonts with you. All of these fonts are free for personal use. You can download them by visiting Da Font and don’t forget to visit the Font Authors personal site. Grunge fonts are more likely identified by their texture details and sometimes erratic in posture, weight or height.
I got two grunge fonts created by Andrew 2 Hart and three others by Last Soundtrack. In the end of my font review I come up with StereoType’s new font, which titled “Base 02”. Click each font’s title and its illustration to start the download.


Everyday Ghost

Everyday Ghost

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Everyday Ghost

By Andrew2 Hart
Site: Dirt2.com
 
Andrew made a Serif Grunge and his choice is Georgia. These fonts are more eroded in the certain caps, which are: B, D, E, G, H, O, Q, R, U. I made a special illustration for this font and you can see how the red O is quite dirty in appearance. I guess this font is related to Typewriter typefaces. You can see outer soft lining for body type (which is typically found in typewriter fonts), only this one is condensed. They have medium weight with detailed textures. Everyday Ghost fonts have normal baseline and posture so you should modify it for a bit to create more erratic effect in illustration.

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Sunday, July 22, 2007

16 Font ter-Favorit dalam Desain Web

6 Font di urutan pertama di bawah ini adalah font yang termasuk dalam kategori “web safe”, karena font-font tersebut didukung oleh sebagian besar browser di segala platform. 2 Font berikutnya biasanya ter-install secara default pada sebagian besar platform tetapi tidak pada semua sistem. Untuk 8 font di urutan selanjutnya, biasanya digunakan untuk tujuan dekoratif dan di-implementasikan dalam Web sebagai sIFR atau disimpan dalam format image.

1. Helvetica, Helvetica Neue, Arial
Font Helveticadiciptakan oleh seorang designer Swiss pada 50 tahun yang lalu, Helvetica adalah salah satu font yang paling sering digunakan secara luas untuk kategori typefaces sans-serif. Banyak sekali perusahaan terkenal seperti American Airlines, Lufthansa, dan Toyota yang memilih font ini untuk kebutuhan branding perusahaan. Terdapat banyak variasi Helvetica ketika pada tahun 1983, Linotype mengeluarkan font Helvetica Neue yang menghasilkan jenis Helvetica dengan gaya yang lebih tersusun secara struktural. Banyak yang menganggap bahwa Arial, yang didesain lebih dari 30 tahun setelah Helvetica, merupakan font tiruan Helvetica. Tetapi kemudian disadari bahwa Arial ternyata lebih memiliki banyak kesamaan dengan Univers dibandingkan dengan Helvetica.

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