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12 Easy Steps To Create a Cool Type Treatment

What makes the difference between an average design and a kick ass design? Concept, contrast, colors, line art , positioning? In my opinion, you should always keep these in mind but never forget about type. There are a lot of things to know about type, there are a lot of things a designer should avoid but in this brief tutorial I will show you how you can easily create a vintage style calligraphic type treatment and use it on t-shirt design.

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Typography Commandments

1. Thou shall use rich Black This is a tip that every beginner should know. It  passes down on a line of wisdom from art director to junior or its learned trough trial and error. If  you choose a black text for print it is very important to   make sure  you are using  rich [...]

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Typography, type and typefaces

This article tries to explain, define and make you understand some notions of typography. We tried to compile the essentials and give you an objective look of these elements.  Now let’s get started! Typography Is the art and techniques of arranging type , type design, and modifying type glyphs. Arranging type involves: changing point size, [...]

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Nifty looking fonts (list no.1) + FREE TOOLS

Type is very very important in design, therefore we had a list made with 10 nifty looking fonts. No long talk, so, below you’ll find the link to the free fonts that will definitely improve your design. 1. Quicksand 2. Aller 3. Grandesign Neue 4. Bertolt Brecht 5. Bird Cherry 6. Colaborate 7. Lois Ann [...]

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