so in today's video I have six different typography sources that you really
want to make use of in your graphic design workflow and yes I am feeling
pretty sick but the show must go on now the first typography resource that
you want to make use of is called fonts in use and again all of the links are
down below relating to all of the resources in today's video now this
resource is really handy because you can see fonts in action all around the world
they've got a huge collection of real-life situations where typography
has been used in graphic design or just in general use so say for example I want
to use Helvetica for my designs I can go ahead and type that into the search bar
to very top and you will see people have actually found her bet to go all around
the world in different uses as some of these are actually graphic designs and
projects or some of these are just simple things like signs in Germany for
example then you can upload your own images if you do stumble across one of
your favorite fonts out there in the real world but ya do use this resource
to just you know have a look at how the typography is being used in real-life
situations and the second resource is a font library called dafont.com and many
of you may know this resource but do you know how to use it properly so just to
demonstrate let's get a retro and take a look at their retro fonts they have an
offer now what you should do is you should come into the options here and I
use 200 examples medium and then I come into the more options right here if you
take the public domain box this means that the fonts that are going to be
displayed are open to you for commercial use they're not owned by a designer
they're owned by the public and also I forgot to check hundred percent free
because the come on let's face it we all love free fonts to use on our graphic
designs
see if I checking public domain and also hundred percent for your funds you're
gonna find free commercial use fonts that you can download and use wherever
you want whenever you want so yeah I do love dafont.com and it is linked down
below with everything else in today's video I'm moving on we have a typography
inspiration by inspiration grid they do have other categories apart from
typography but of course today we are looking at table ography so let's have a
look down below at some of the inspiration they have on offer
so right off the bat there are some really interesting additions here and I
just love looking at really awesome typography is one of my passions when it
comes to graphic design and has been for a long long time but let's have a look
at the work of this Chinese artist right here I mean look at the colors look at
the detail look at the fluidity of the typography it's really just awesome
especially this one here this is one of my favorites actually in the whole
website so yeah if you wanna have some inspiration for your typography just
head over to this website link down below now when it comes to understanding
the basics of typography one thing graphic designers probably should know
is the technical terms for the characters say for example we have a
foot right here and this of course is the beak and then we have the arm but
what do you think this color thingy right here is actually called
that's actually a ligature and finally do you guys know what this is right here
on the EE that of course is a crossbar so yeah this is a quick little handy
cheat sheets that you can refer back to and brush up your knowledge on the
technical terms of typography the fifth edition today is animated typography
fonts that you can download now they're not free but they are really really neat
and they're really cool if you're working with animated designs and you
haven't got the skills all the time to fully animate your typography just roll
in my cursor over the font will actually reveal the animation itself one of my
favorite fonts on this is isotype as you guys know I do have you know a few
isometric tutorials but one really neat thing about this website is that you can
actually view videos say for example we have red Neko right here and I'm just
going to let this play through for a few seconds
so yeah that was animated fonts to download but let's move on to the last
edition in today's video on on typography resources and this last one
is kind of a bit of fun but it's also educational and that is a dating game
based around matching different fonts so I'm gonna go for this sleek and tall
sans-serif here and that's a little background information about it so once
you've chosen the phone you want to pair it with a date you have four options on
how to match up with this one's relying on family seeking similar a bracing the
other and exploring the past now I'm going to go for three because that's
relating to contrast and so what kind of font am I going to choose to contrast
this son serif I could go for a thick of all the fun but I'm personally gonna
choose a serif font because you know that's a nice easy contrast to make and
once you've chosen it it does show how it matches up together here but we're
gonna send them on a dates and congratulations you've made a successful
match now it says here why the pear works it gives some background
information on both of the fonts and then actually has a real example of both
of them in use as you can see there's a wine menu right here with both ones side
by side pedo but yeah this is a really neat way to explore how to pair
typography and just to learn a thing or two about sort of wants and so forth as
a lot of you would know I've recently returned from Asia to stylus mouth and I
have just become sick now so I do hope it is a cold and you know no anything
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