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How to Craft Stories Through Layouts and Typography

Designer Daily

Learning how to convey a narrative with your layouts and typography is a must if you want a career in graphic design. Typography plays an important role in the area of narrative. So, before you go headfirst into typography, think about the range of meaning it may add to your stories.

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Examples of websites that do web typography properly

Designer Daily

Typography has become fundamental in web design projects. Typography assists in providing an excellent experience for users before they even click a button or read. Typography has become one of the most popular trends of web design trends among designers. What is Typography? In general, typography brings the text to life.

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7 beautiful portfolio templates for creatives in 2022

Creative Boom

From good old WordPress and Squarespace to Wix and Ghost, these recommended designs have been marked up for their clean layouts, strong design and overall flexibility – as in, you can tweak these themes to your heart's content and end up with something that, well, doesn't look like an off-the-shelf site. But boy, is it beautiful.

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10 must-read graphic design books for 2024

Creative Boom

And this essential, easy-to-use guide takes an in-depth look at using them as the foundational structure for layouts. With hundreds of full-colour layout concepts and diagrams, this is a great help to graphic designers in both mastering and transcending the grid.

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How to Design Fonts: Has Blaze Type created the most accessible typography guide?

Creative Boom

French type design foundry Blaze Type has put together a straightforward guide to demystify typography and make the practice accessible to everyone. Want to get into font design but feel confused by the craft? It gives you super simple directions to follow and shows readers what fonts, glyphs and so on should look like."

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Print's not dead: the best magazines for graphic design inspiration

Creative Boom

It showcases the best in visual communications, from typography to illustration and everything in between. The publication is based in California and covers graphic design, advertising, illustration, photography, interactive design and typography. Idea Idea is a magazine about graphic design and typography published quarterly in Tokyo.

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The best new typefaces for October from leading foundries and designers

Creative Boom

So, whether you're working on branding projects, editorial layouts, or digital interfaces, check out these brilliant typefaces and discover how they can enhance your creative projects. We feel it's particularly well-suited for fashion branding, album covers and edgy magazine layouts. This playful typeface is a great choice.

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