by Sheri Hall | Apr 10, 2018 | Graphic Design, Resources, Typography
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesHoly cats, folks! Where would we be without letters, without typography? Deciphering pictographs on this screen?!? Emoji everywhere? As fun as that might be, I love a good, sexy capital Q or lowercase g and you won’t find those in...
by Sheri Hall | Jan 4, 2018 | Graphic Design, Logo Design, Typography
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares What makes a good logo? The answer is a little different for everyone, but most agree on these five characteristics. 1. A good logo is memorable A logo should be distinct or unique in some way. This is usually accomplished by setting the...
by Sheri Hall | Dec 15, 2017 | Graphic Design, Logo Design, Typography
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Well, here we are, at the end of our whirlwind tour of the typeface world. We’ve looked at serif, sans serif, script and dingbat fonts … and now we’re at display/novelty. This category is huge since it’s a catch-all for things that don’t...
by Sheri Hall | Dec 8, 2017 | Graphic Design, Logo Design, Typography
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The world of script fonts seems to exploding as fast as Bitcoin (at least as I write this in late 2017)! Most of the explosion is coming from the handwritten and calligraphic category. There are many other types of scripts out there. In this...
by Sheri Hall | Nov 3, 2017 | Graphic Design, How to, Typography
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Learning to pair or combine fonts is one of the most fun, tricky and rewarding pursuits in graphic design. If you learn font pairing well, it will take your design skills to another level. It takes practice and style sense to know when a...
by Sheri Hall | Oct 5, 2017 | Graphic Design, How to, Typography
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares This may be the most common typography mistake I see people make: using a single open quote mark or a foot mark when they should be using an apostrophe. The following graphic shows a bunch of what not to do. First we’ll look at the...
