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A Question of Character: Finding What You Need in Your Fonts, Part 2

Features: Written by James Felici on November 16, 2009

Everything you wanted to know about Unicode but didn’t know whom to ask. Bonus: A cheat sheet for instantly creating such characters as fractions; up and down arrows; and open and filled circles and squares.

A Question of Character: Finding What You Need in Your Fonts, Part 1

Features: Written by James Felici on October 26, 2009

As fonts get larger, finding the characters you need keeps getting more complicated. Here's a chart that gives keyboard shortcuts for the degree symbol, multiplication sign, the cents sign, and much more.

Antique Gothic Grotesque: Deciphering the Typeface Name Game

Features: Written by James Felici on October 5, 2009

The vocabulary of type is mysterious at best, and nowhere is this more true than in how typefaces are labeled. Yet knowing how typefaces are named and categorized has very practical benefits.

To Double-Space or Not to Double-Space...

Features: Written by James Felici on August 24, 2009

A thought-provoking disquisition on the thorny issue of how much space should follow a sentence-ending period.

In White Space, No One Can Hear You Scream

Features: Written by James Felici on August 10, 2009

Think you're in total control of your type? Truth is, you're on a short lead, in the tight grip of your typeface's designer.

A Love Letter to Letters

Features: Written by Patrick Devine on June 1, 2009

In which a type nerd visiting a museum with his two kids is struck dumb by exceptional signage. What do you think the alluring mystery typeface will turn out to be?

Free For All: Put Away Your Wallet

Features: Written by Pariah Burke on May 14, 2009

Convert files, change your wallpaper, get things done, restore missing Photoshop features, and try fonts. As always, they're all free.

Free For All: This Stuff's Worth Paying For, But You Don't Have To!

Features: Written by Pariah Burke on April 13, 2009

There's something for everyone this month: designers of iPhone Web sites or iApps; type lovers; business owners; and people who just want to compress the heck out of online images.

Free For All: Great Gratis Goodies

Features: Written by Pariah Burke on February 16, 2009

In this month's roundup of online bargains, we highlight Photoshop brushes, back-up software, an hourly rate estimator, a Photoshop plug-in to create favicons, and a seven-font type family. And of course, they're all free!

iPhone Apps for Designers

Features: Written by Jeff Carlson on January 28, 2009

Yes, iPhones are good for phone calls, text messages, email, and of course, games. But many iApps are truly useful additions to a designer's toolbox. Here are a few of the better apps, which range in price from free to $9.99.

Ten (More!) Free Online Tools for Designers

Features: Written by Pariah Burke on December 17, 2008

Ten more free resources help you find and land clients; set your hourly rate; manage project proofing and signoff; find company logos; and more.

Ten Free Online Tools Every Designer Should Know

Features: Written by Pariah Burke on November 10, 2008

These free resources help you manage your business, store files, find stock images that aren't copyrighted, explore color, and more.

Napoleon and the Courier Font

Features: Written by Frank J. Romano on August 4, 2008

This is a tale about Napoleon, the Rosetta Stone, typewriters, and font errors. Yes, they are all related.

InDesign Inspiration

Features: Written by Terri Stone on June 30, 2008

Nick Sherman uses Adobe InDesign for everything from band buttons to cookbooks for kids with cancer. Check out his work in this inspiring article.

TypeTalk: It's Fontariffic!

Features: Written by Ilene Strizver on February 22, 2008

Answers to your questions about awkward spaces, "prime" time, and free fonts.

TypeTalk: Answers to Your Type Questions

Features: Written by Ilene Strizver on February 23, 2007

True small caps, combining glyphs to create new letters, booming population of widows and orphans, best font editors

TypeTalk: A New Column on Creativepro.com

Features: Written by Ilene Strizver on January 24, 2007

Whether you're dealing with mystery fonts, drop caps, or software that punctuates badly, this Q&A column has the information you need.