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SudTipos, the amazing type foundry from Argentina, released Semilla yesterday, a new ornamental display typeface and it looks absolutely gorgeous. You just have to love the marvelous terminations like those in Roses or Zoe above.  And what about the ligature of  ’ss’ characters ? I find interesting how the lowercase ‘g’ and ‘y’ saves a lot of vertical space. I am amazed at how each glyph has its own strong identity, for example the stems on top of the ‘f’ and ‘c’.

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Tags: sudtipos, type foundry, typeface

The Free People boutique not only has a beautiful site that is a master piece in terms of funcionality and design featuring their great clothes, but it also cares about environment. The July catalog prompted to recycle it in a creative way and Laura Rosenbaum got really creative, resulting in the artwork featured above that she made using the catalog. Laura has a lot more of close ups on her blog of this interesting piece that she called She’s So Heavy.

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Tags: painting, showcase

IT-FADU is a project aiming to put together a directory of all the typefaces, typographers and type foundries from all over the world, like for example Adios Script as a typeface, Ale Paul as a typographer, and Type Together (ring a bell? yes, they are the producers of Bree, one of MyFonts’ latest best seller) or PampaType as a Type Foundry.

Tags: showcase, type foundry

Antonio Luppetti, who blogs about CSS, HTML, AJAX, jQuery and other topics about web development, released a while ago this book titledThe Woork Handbook. It’s a collection of tutorials published at Woork that despite the fact that they have one year old they will be very interesting for the web developer newbie and even an intermediate developer, as it introduces some practical ways to get things done.

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Tags: book, freebie, resources

Don’t you feel sometimes that the ‘e’ in Twitter doesn’t quite fit the rest of the characters? let alone the weird difference between the first ‘t’ and the rest of the word. Well, Masayuki Sato states in this Flickr entry that the ‘twi’ and ‘r’ were type using his font, Pico-alphabet, which he released back in 2001.

Masayuki Sato has a lot of typefaces available for download at his site, mostly handwritten fonts, display fonts and even some dingbats.

Tags: type foundry, typeface

Sometimes we need to format the content differently according to the screen resolution of the user. One of the ways to do this is to simply detect the screen width using the screen.width property and change the stylesheet. In this tutorial we’re going to see how to do that using jQuery.

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Tags: javascript

I’m sure you’ve heard of GraphicRiver and most of you must be selling goodies there. Well, I wanted to let you know that I’m selling some graphics on GraphicRiver.net, one of the Marketplaces of the Envato Network.

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Tags: resources, showcase

The image above was created with the Mixal typeface that I’m giving away for free today. The Mixal font is a lowercase only font and has a heavy body so it’s proper for composing headlines or navigational elements in an interface.

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Tags: free font, freebie, resources, typeface

This old font was hidden somewhere in the darkness and when I found it I thought it would be nice to share it with you so I started polishing it and adding more and more characters. The Menta typeface has an almost complete paneuropean alphabet with 189 glyphs.

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Tags: free font, freebie, resources, typeface

One user of the Cute Critters icon set that I created for Tutorial9 was very kind to send this picture of the panda icon integrated in his Warranty Hero software, an application from Nodhead Software. In their press release they state

Warranty Hero allows anyone to quickly and easily keep track of a products life-span and its accompanying warranty guarantee. With a focus on ease-of-use, adding new product information is as simple as entering its name, vendor, purchase dateand a time the warranty expires. Optional information for serial number, price, product image, and receipt can be entered as necessary.

Tags: icons