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How to create more fun and playful typography - 99designs

How to create more fun and playful typography - 99designs | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Good typography may be hard work, but designers shouldn’t forget to have some fun with it! While crafting fonts and typographic characters can sometimes feel stiff and overly mathematical, we want you to help you find the joy in creating more expressive and playful typography.

Of course, this approach is great for children-oriented design projects—but let’s not limit ourselves. After all… not every coffee shop, ice cream store and logo needs to look posh. Let’s find the more creative side of typography and get goofy!

In this article, we’ll spotlight some examples of playful typography and show you how to join in the fun with your own work....

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Lots of creative inspiration here  and tips on how to use fun and playful typography in your design..

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20 Best Color Palette Tools for Web and Graphic Design

20 Best Color Palette Tools for Web and Graphic Design | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

As a web or graphic designer you must have a keen sense of color combinations and feel which colors look good together and which don’t. Anyway, even with this great skill in color combining, you may find yourself in situations when you just feel less inspired. That’s when these best color palette tools come in handy!


These 20 best color palette tools will help you choose and create the best color palettes for your graphic or web designs. Choose the one that is perfect for you and start using it! Enjoy

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Bloggers, marketing and PR pros will also appreciate these excellent color palette tools.

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How to Marry Text and Images – Design School

How to Marry Text and Images – Design School | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

It’s time to take your designs to the next level! Combine your text and images to create powerful compositions.From making use of copy space in your images, to adding shapes to your designs to help your text stand out – the value of this creative technique is not to be overlooked.


Try these five simple tips to create effective compositions that not only look beautiful, but read effectively....

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Increase the quality of your designs by learning how to marry text and images like a professional designer.

Marco Favero's curator insight, December 24, 2014 6:17 AM

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Marta Ciesielska's curator insight, January 20, 2015 6:12 AM

This  is very popular nowdays to make text and image work fine together on the web page, in your presentation etc. So it's good to know how to make it look nice and clean!

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The Enormous List of Web Typography Resources - Optimizer WP

The Enormous List of Web Typography Resources - Optimizer WP | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Typeface selection plays a critical role in the readability of your content. Although it may be one of the overlooked aspects when it comes to designing websites. One of the main finding of Nielsen Norman Group Eye-tracking Study of Web Readers was “Text Attracts Attention Before Graphics”. The study revealed:


“Of users’ first three eye-fixations on a page, only 22% were on graphics; 78% were on text”.


As a web designer, you need to pay more attention to typography.To make your design more effective and impactful we have compiled a huge list of typography tools and resources available on the Internet. If you are serious about web design and want to improve your skills, Take time to work your way through this resources.…

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Think topography doesn't matter? Think again and check out these amazing typography resources from Optimizer WP.

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Free Pattern Generator for Designers - Code Geekz

Free Pattern Generator for Designers - Code Geekz | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Do you need some tasty, high quality website background patterns for your next web project? Well if yes then you are at right place, in this article we are going to share some useful free pattern generator tools that will allow you to create beautiful, visually stunning and eye-catching patterns and backgrounds for your design projects.


Some of these pattern generators let you have control of colors, orientation, pattern elements and more, while others will randomly generate patterns for you. These patterns can then be downloaded in various image formats, or in code. Enjoy !!...

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Background patterns play an important role in the design process. DesignGeekz share a collection of cool tools for bloggers and website designers. Who wouldn't want to add a snazzy looking tartan pattern to your website or blog? Lol

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9 Inspirational Design Blogs

9 Inspirational Design Blogs | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

When we interview creative people, we often ask them where they find inspiration. Their responses we get vary pretty widely, from travel to magazines to inspirational figures. And there’s definitely something to be said for the masses of inspiring artists, designers, writers, photographers and general creators that you find online.


It was tough to narrow it down, but in today’s Design9 we’re sharing the nine inspirational design blogs that excite us the most....

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9 create design blogs to follow.