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Lookalike Fonts
Which fonts look most like Helvetica? What's a good substitute if you can't find Staccato? Browse this lengthy alphabetical list of fonts that share the same look, sometimes almost identical. These are known as font aliases, clones, or lookalike fonts.
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Make Your Own Mug Shot
Mug shots show up in police booking reports and in newsletters. Two totally different of uses of mug shots. Or, create your own fake police booking photo and put it in a newsletter, a greeting card, or a wanted poster.
Designing With QR Codes
There's a lot of information about what a QR code is and how to use it but now get some advice on how to incorporate that code into your print pieces.
Designers Need to Know How to Write
Writing is not reserved for journalists and book authors. Writing is a valuable skill for almost any professional, including designers.
Using Image Editing and Layout to Control Perception
WYSIWYG may apply to computer software (sometimes) but what you see in a font, a graphic, or an advertising piece isn't necessarily what everyone else sees. Learn how to cater to different audiences, be aware of how others perceive what you're doing, and expand your options by looking at images and layouts in different ways.
Lost in Spaces
There are more spacing options available than just hitting the spacebar once or twice. Explore the use of relative size spaces in common use for type in print and sometimes on the Web.
Lorem ipsum dolor Placeholder Text
The Lorem ipsum text is a series of somewhat nonsense sentences with enough real latin components thrown in just to make it confusing. It is also referred to as placeholder or dummy text. Learn how to use it.
Graphic Design Portfolio Projects
Use these projects to build your graphic design portfolio or simply to provide yourself with some design and layout practice. Create some from your imagination or work from specs provided by imaginary clients for a more real world experience.
Use One Space Between Sentences
Should you put one space or two spaces after a period or other sentence-ending punctuation? The debate over how much space to put between sentences may seem petty, but often it's the little details that make or break a design.
Type Foundry Abbreviations in Fonts
What do those letters mean? Explore this long list of prefixes and suffixes found in the names of some fonts that can help you identify the type foundry or designer.
Graphic Design and Graphic Arts, The Graphical Expression of... Whose Message?
Elisabetta Bruno talks about how the source of the message differentiates graphic design from graphic arts. They are both forms of visual communication but with different goals and origins.