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Wedding script fonts perfect for invitations and stationery. A small collection of wedding fonts and combinations wedding font pairings and elegant calligraphy fonts put together to inspire you.

April 6, 2018

Wedding fonts perfect for invitations and stationery

Wedding script fonts perfect for invitations and stationery. A small collection of wedding fonts and combinations wedding font pairings and elegant calligraphy fonts put together to inspire you. You might be employing the talents of a designer, so you'll need custom wedding invitations, place settings,...

March 31, 2018

In Font

OpenType-SVG colour fonts what you need to know and why I love them

OpenType-SVG fonts are a thing now. What are you talking about I hear you say? Colour fonts are here, full colour for each glyph, its a thing now—and it's called OpenType-SVG. For font designers, it's kind of a big deal. We have been stuck with black...

Fierce font is a hand painted full-colour brush display typeface by Simon Stratford

March 26, 2018

In Design

Fierce font is a hand painted full-colour OpenType-SVG brush display typeface

Fierce font is a hand painted full-colour brush display typeface. Using the new OpenType-SVG font capabilities that now brings full colour to Mac Photoshop fonts. The beauty of a full-colour font is that it keeps all the lovely details that my original painting included. It's not...

Yeah font is my first full-colour typeface, created with c4d, photoshop and fontself. It's a gold foil font, bold, big and pop kitsch at its best.

March 12, 2018

In Font

Yeah foil balloon colour font

Gold foil balloon type for photoshop—I've never used a 3D rendering program to make a typeface before. But that's exactly what I've done with my new font called Yeah. Each letter was modelled in cinema 4d to look like those gold foil mylar balloons. Very big,...

Don't lose your fire brush lettering by Bianca Cash

March 5, 2018

In Design, Typography

10 awesome examples of brush lettering

Along with brush fonts, I'm very partial to a nice bit of brush lettering. I love the loose type of lettering created with a real brush. I'm not so much a fan of old-school calligraphy. With enough practice, anyone can learn to create the perfect calligraphic...

March 3, 2018

In Design, Writing

10 creative graphic t-shirt designs that are killing it

T-shirt designs — I'm a sucker for a good tee shirt. Its pretty much what I wear everyday—its my uniform. Thankfully the days of me wearing a shirt and tie are long gone. I feel sorry for the poor saps on the tube everyday...

The spray paint textures are excellent for adding that grunge, urban feel to your work. Giving your design that stencil or graffiti look and feel.

February 20, 2018

In Design

Spray paint textures the ultimate bundle for Photoshop and Illustrator

I created my first spray paint bundle back in 2015. I never planned to create a whole pack. I just did it for a job I was doing for a client that needed real spray paint textures. It wasn't until I had finished it, that...

modern slab serif fonts by Simon Stratford #slab #serif #fonts

February 11, 2018

In Typography

10 outstanding examples of modern slab serif fonts

I'm very partial to a slab serif font. They have a charm that really resonates with me. They hark back to old wood type from the 1800's, when everything was hand set, and somehow felt more real. Love the style I love that period of type...

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