Mina Chic is a fresh, elegant, sexy script. I love that it looks like it's been written with a pointed nib! You can access all 515 glyphs with any open type aware application. It's gorgeous! Just look at the samples created by the designers. Giuseppe Salerno and Paco González are ... READ the POST
Why use premium fonts?
Why pay for fonts at all when you can get free ones? When I first dabbled in graphic design, I used only free fonts, or those that came packaged with the software on my computer. I had no idea why people would actually pay $200 for a font when a similar free font was available. It was a ... READ the POST
Font Crush: Pretty Calligraphy Fonts Part 2
Hello lovelies! It's time for another roundup of pretty fonts available in the market. I swear, these font designers are trying to bankrupt me! This set features fonts that are perfect for a handwritten, organic look such as a wedding invite with a watercolor background for example, or ... READ the POST
Awesome Ampersands
I'll tell you a secret. I judge fonts based on the quality of the ampersand. You can tell how detail-oriented a font designer is by the amount of effort he/she put into designing this single character. Seriously. The best ones have ampersands that can be printed out as art. Another ... READ the POST
Font Crush: Mina
Mina is an elegant handwritten script font that has a distinctly feminine appeal. I discovered it when a client asked me to find out what font was used for the header of Ivory Lane. See how pretty and clean it is? This is how the designers describe their font - Go back to a time when the ... READ the POST
The Prettiest Calligraphy Fonts
I've been trying to learn modern calligraphy for a few months now, and I have to confess that I'm finding out that it's not as easy as I thought it would be. Professional calligraphers deserve to be paid every dollar that they charge and more. It takes painstaking practice for hours, ... READ the POST
