What is typography after all? How should text be structured? And how can the printed page be influenced by good design theories? Here we showcase 103 Free Ebooks, Tools and Resources on Typography to get your creative juices flowing, covering topics such as CSS, finding and using type, online tools, web fonts, combinations and many more.
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7 Free Digital Design and Marketing Ebooks
A selection of digital design and marketing resources for you to download for free, and use however you please. They pull together some tasty chunks of their expertise into ebooks, templates and presentations.
Classy and Beautiful Posters from Classic Books to Visualize the Beauty of Reading
9 wonderful posters created from popular book quotes by “heartlessmanipulator”. Enjoy the words being brought alive visually and a little dose of encouragement to pick up a book and start reading.
Typography: Tasty Type Tips
We look at the most important rules and guidelines concerning typography in web and application design. A large part of them are universal and apply to all media.
Principles of Digital Image Synthesis
The big idea in this book is to lay out the rules that tell a computer how to take 3D shapes and lights and create a picture-one that would pass for a photograph of that scene if it existed. So our driving problem is the simulation of Nature’s illumination of a scene, the capturing of that illumination on film, and its presentation to an observer.
Blender 3D: Noob to Pro
Blender 3D: Noob to Pro is a product of shared effort by numerous team members and anonymous editors. Its purpose is to teach people how to create three-dimensional computer graphics using Blender, a free software application.
Logo Design: Creative Path to Effective Branding
The book describing types of logos, creative stages and basic features of efficient branding design. Packed with various cases by Tubik Studio designers.
Combining Typefaces: Free guide to great typography
This very brief ‘pocket guide’ is for designers and developers who want to make better choices about type and build their typographic expertise. Successful typeface combinations are partly a matter of good taste, which can be tough to develop.
Free Icon Design Guide: Everything you need to know about icon design to get started
Want to create your first icon set, but have no idea where to start? Or maybe you just want to earn some money on the side by selling stock icons?