A great font resource, which I've seen mentioned several times in the SitePoint Forums, is WhatTheFont. By simply uploading a simple JPEG, GIF, TIFF or BMP image, you can identify which font is used in a particular ad. This is particularly handy for reviving older ads for which you've lost the original files.
If you truly feel like browsing for a new font, 1001 Free Fonts offers a vast selection of fonts. The only downside of this site is that the fonts are categorized by font name, and not by style.
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As a webdesigner you’re working a lot with photoshop and now you would like to convert your psd (or jpg, png, whatever photoshop can read) files to a valid CSS and (X)HTML document.
Do you know that you can do it using photoshop and image ready and that it will take about 30 seconds ? If you want to know how do it everything is explained step by step with proper screen captures just in case
Yep you’re not dreaming this is possible, read on !
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Typography is an artform that stretches back thousands of years—from stone-carved letterforms in the second century, to Gutenberg’s creation of movable, letterpress type in 1448. Typesetting was born a tedious trade where hours were spent laying out a book’s pages one letter at a time. For the last 150 years designers have wielded type as visual weaponry, to point directly at the masses and fire at will. Now we’re assaulted with type, most of which is awful; and that’s where you come in.
http://www.istockphoto.com/article_view.php?ID=153
The VisiBone Chart Suite
I hope you'll find these printed references and free online resources useful in
your web design adventures, with Color, Fonts, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
I believe complexity is best mastered by seeing the whole picture in rich detail;
that expertise consists mainly of vivid mental pictures; that working knowledge
is best aided by precise reminders within view or reach. I've tried to give you
both extremes, the totality at a glance, with as much useful detail as can fit.
I've tried to quench your left-brain's thirst for facts and seed your right-brain's
power for intuitive, subconscious wonder. It'd sure be my honor if you find
this stuff helps.
http://www.visibone.com/products/chartsuite.html
The Tango Desktop Project exists to create a consistent user experience for free and Open Source software with graphical user interfaces.
While the look and feel of an application is determined by many components the initial work has been done on unifying the look of the individual icon sets.
Tango defines a standard icon style guidelines document that applications and desktop enviroments can adhere to. Work has started on creating a new base icon theme based on a standard icon naming specification. In addition, we provide transition utilities to create icon themes for existing GNOME and KDE desktops.
Eventually, the Tango Desktop initiative aims to provide:
- A specified default native look.
- A subsystem to help standardize toolkits on a common look and feel.
- A complete, standard set of application, mimetype, and stock icons to build upon a style guide.
- Cross-desktop humane interface guidelines.
http://tango-project.org/Tango_Desktop_Project
