Tuesday 29 July 2008

Typography is IMPORTANT!

Here's a confession.

I always cringe at the sight of people who call themselves 'designers' or people people who do digital print media, and yet give the excuse that their computers only 'ship with a small number of fonts, like Times, Ariel, or even worse, COMIC SANS.

To save yourself from getting a lesson on typography and font from me, I suggest you see this link.


Go, get some fonts, and use them in your design works and prints, before I nag.

But please, use ARIEL, TAHOMA, or CALIBRI in FORMAL documents, unless you want your teacher, employer or boss to nag at you. Otherwise, no excuse.

Also, respect other people's Intellectual Property [IP], if they license it as free for personal use, make sure you're not making money out of the thing that you're using the font for, including submission for competition(s).

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