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Typography Tools for Aspiring Graphic Designers

Where do you begin when it comes to beginning your graphic design education? It can be a tough question to answer. Rest assured these tools can be a great starting guide for any aspiring graphic designer to learn more about creating typefaces, kerning, finding font combinations and more.

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Shape Type

Submitted by: Kavneet Kaur

Shape Type is an online game that helps you perfect your eye for type. It guides you through a number of levels that involves you manipulating the shape of the letterform in order to perfect it.

Shape Type is an online game that helps you perfect your eye for type. It guides you through a number of levels that involves you manipulating the shape of the letterform in order to perfect it.

See at shape.method.ac

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Kern Type

Submitted by: Kavneet Kaur

Kern Type is an online game that involves you manually kerning letterforms in order to visually perfect them. It’s a great way to help you further sharpen your Typography skills.

Kern Type is an online game that involves you manually kerning letterforms in order to visually perfect them. It’s a great way to help you further sharpen your Typography skills.

See at type.method.ac

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FontPair

Submitted by: Kavneet Kaur

FontPair helps designers pair Google Fonts together. Beautiful Google Font combinations and pairs.

FontPair helps designers pair Google Fonts together. Beautiful Google Font combinations and pairs.

See at fontpair.co

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The Font Deck

Submitted by: Kavneet Kaur

The Font Deck is a deck of cards that started off as a kickstarter project. Each card contains information about a particular font or typeface. Not only does it help brush up your type skills while playing cards, but it also helps as a great visual resource when you’re stuck looking for the right font.

The Font Deck is a deck of cards that started off as a kickstarter project. Each card contains information about a particular font or typeface. Not only does it help brush up your type skills while playing cards, but it also helps as a great visual resource when you’re stuck looking for the right font.

See at kickstarter.com

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"Thinking with Type" by Ellen Lupton

Submitted by: Kavneet Kaur

Thinking with Type is an in depth book about every detail about the world of Typography that you will need to know written by graphic designer Ellen Lupton. You can also visit the website www.thinkingwithtype.com to access her great compilation of everything Typography.

Thinking with Type is an in depth book about every detail about the world of Typography that you will need to know written by graphic designer Ellen Lupton. You can also visit the website www.thinkingwithtype.com to access her great compilation of everything Typography.

See at amazon.com

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Design for Hackers by David Kadavy

Submitted by: Danny Boyle

"With this book, I hope not just to provide you with simplistic rules about design, but to expose the methodical thought framework that I’ve developed from years of experimentation and analysis – a thought framework that I
implement even as I collaborate with a team of developers on launching a product in a single weekend, or create a design solution for a client with limited funding. By “reverse-engineering” the design process, I hope to provide you with knowledge that can sustain you across a variety of situations." -- From the author
In a chapter entitled 'The tragedy of misuse', the author outlines the various reasons why Comic Sans is the most hated font among designers. This way it is easier for beginners to understand what differentiates a good font from a bad one and how it plays out on paper.

"With this book, I hope not just to provide you with simplistic rules about design, but to expose the methodical thought framework that I’ve developed from years of experimentation and analysis – a thought framework that I
implement even as I collaborate with a team of developers on launching a product in a single weekend, or create a design solution for a client with limited funding. By “reverse-engineering” the design process, I hope to provide you with knowledge that can sustain you across a variety of situations." -- From the author
In a chapter entitled 'The tragedy of misuse', the author outlines the various reasons why Comic Sans is the most hated font among designers. This way it is easier for beginners to understand what differentiates a good font from a bad one and how it plays out on paper.

See at

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