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Web fonts vs Commercial fonts + 150 great web typefaces
Commercial fonts or free fonts?, this is a big dilemma that afflicts many designers as they find difficult to decide between beautiful but expensive fonts such as Helvetica or Futura and free fonts like the ones featured on Google Web Fonts, which also have a really nice design but will never be like the originals.
This post more than being an extensive article where we discuss the benefits of free and commercial fonts wants to offer you a pleasant time through an amusing game where you must choose between different options and find out which option is the correct, just like the old Pepsi vs Coke commercials that we saw many years ago. Let’s see how much you know about typefaces!. After the game, you will find a great list featuring some of the nicest web fonts available nowadays for your inspiration.
Helvetica free download… with Google Web Fonts
We can’t deny the quality work and support that you acquire by purchasing commercial items, like commercial fonts like the lovely Helvetica.
However, Now that we have amazing tools like Google Web Fonts, it’s not totally necessary to use commercial fonts unless you need the premium support or your application license demands it. But what happens if you want to make a flyer for your best friend and you consider that Helvetica is the best choice?, you know that your friend is not going to pay you for purchasing that font and he will expect you to do something. We know about this problem and that’s why we decided to drive a fun experiment where by using Google Fonts we will try to recreate some of the popular (commercial) Helvetica variations in the most similar way possible.
Stylish text effect tutorial using Illustrator
Typography these days have become more than just a way to express words and build sentences. We can now see a lot of showcases featuring inspirational designs made with typography, which is used in ways to express more than words, turning out into beautiful illustrations.
On this tutorial you’re about to learn how to create a beautiful text effect with a subtle vintage look that’s going to be applied to an specific typeface, just to help you get an idea, we will try to generate an old school text that can be implemented on modern web designs.
100 free @font-face fonts
The term @font-face makes reference to a CSS rule that allows you to download a particular font from your server to a webpage so people are able to see it without having the font installed, in other words, we are talking about those typographic families or single fonts that are able to be used in different computers without having to be installed on a determined device. Until a few years ago, there were just a few font families that were readable from any PC, because they usually came installed in every PC, such as Arial, Helvetica and Verdana.
Today the range has became wider, allowing people to embed their favorite fonts to their websites by using a few code lines. On this article we will be reviewing some of the best free fonts ready for download that can be used along with the @font-face properties. These fonts will make your designs look the way they’re supposed to be from any computer.
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