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14 High Quality Free Comic Fonts

AQ Nizam — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:11:15 +0000

Here we are presenting high quality collection of free comic fonts that will add a lively feeling to your bore and dull designs. Did you ever feel that the usual fonts have become somewhat uninteresting? If yes then you must need something new and fresh to make your designs look more stylish and fun to look at.

Comic fonts are the perfect choice to fulfill that purpose. Comic fonts can bring a feel of joy and pleasure to your design while making them visually alluring as well. Here we have a showcase of 14 exceptional and revitalizing comic fonts for you that will furnish an extra vigor to your artworks and designs. Check this out and get to pick one!

Important: All fonts are free to use. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the fonts for commercial use, they can change from time to time.

Go Boom!

Knits and Scraps font

DK Harrumph

KG Party on the Rooftop

American Purpose

Blessings through Raindrops

Fighting Spirit TBS

Vigilante Sidekick

Que FONTita!

Denne’s Aliens

Brown Bear Funk

Shonenpunk Custom

Curses

Font: Adam warren 0.2

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Best Of 2011: 50 Free Fonts To Enhance Your Designs

Akhter — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:13:21 +0000

Since 2011 is just about to end so we though, this would be the perfect time to showcase some of the best fonts that we have seen in 2011 lately. In this collection, we have gathered 50 latest free fonts from 2011 that can truly enhance your designs. We all know that choosing the right font can make or break the design as well as the overall look.

In the field of graphic design, displaying typography is a persuasive element where more attention is paid to how artistically typefaces can be used in a design. The appropriate selection of typography can convert your ordinary design into extraordinarily eye-catching piece of art.
So, here is the collection of fresh and high quality free fonts to make your designs look outstanding. All the fonts present in this collection are free to download. Enjoy!

Acid Stucture

Sketch Gothic

Villa Didot

Lorena

Accent Free Display Typeface

Glide® Font

Scalpel Font

Arapey – Free Google Web Fon

Stencil 8bit

NepTouch

Ribbon

Sketch Block

Hydrophilia

Lavanderia

VE Vastagurly Display

My Girl Is Retro

MOLESK

GRN Burgy

The Kabel Font

Mosaic Leaf

Construthinvism

The 2K12

Dragon

Eclectic

Earth Heart

Nomed

Maria Antonia

Antechamber

Weston

Baurete

Minaeff Ect

DUKE

Arvil

Wonderful

Slice

TETRAA

Henry Typeface

Broken Records

Five Minutes

Grogy free font

Acid Step

Excellens

Absinthe

Piron

Corki

CODE Pro

Channel font

Cookie

Coalition v2.0

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50 Wonderful Free Fonts For Vintage And Retro Designing

Akhter — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:21:13 +0000

Ever wonder why vintage or retro style is getting so much popular and is being adopted extensively? This is because vintage and retro style is the best way to express yourself in a unique way and take your audience back to the decades of 50’s. Designers make an effort to accomplish this by means of different design components for example textures and patterns from a certain time period. However, it is also significant to bring accurate typography into play from the time period you are attempting to represent.

In this post, we have gathered 50 outstanding vintage and retro fonts that you can utilize in your designs as well. In this collection, you will notice that these fonts range from a 1920′s look all the way up to the retro typography style of the 50′s. Enjoy!

Important: All fonts are free. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the fonts for commercial use, they can change from time to time.

Ginga ( Download Font )

CARIBBEAN TOOL ( Download Font )

Star Avenue ( Download Font )

Malgecito ( Download Font )

Hawaii Lover ( Download Font )

Monbijoux ( Download Font )

Fusty Saddle ( Download Font )

Blessed Day ( Download Font )

ANGEL TEARS ( Download Font )

Matchbook Typefaces ( Download Font )

Nashville ( Download Font )

GOVERNOR ( Download Font )

Dirty and Classic ( Download Font )

Moonlight Shadow ( Download Font )

HIGHLANDS ( Download Font )

POMPADOUR NUMERALS ( Download Font )

Bazar, Medium ( Download Font )

Broken Poster ( Download Font )

Truskey ( Download Font )

PopStar Autograph ( Download Font )

CANDY INC ( Download Font )

Please Show Me Love ( Download Font )

Avante Return ( Download Font )

PANHEAD ( Download Font )

Ayosmonika ( Download Font )

Glove ( Download Font )

Fabulous 50s ( Download Font )

Eight One ( Download Font )

JustOldFashion ( Download Font )

Super Retro M54 ( Download Font )

LT Oksana 4.0 ( Download Font )

Market Deco ( Download Font )

ARB 85 Poster Script JAN-39 ( Download Font )

Retro Disco ( Download Font )

Ed Gein ( Download Font )

Jailbox1 ( Download Font )

KarlofF ( Download Font )

Dead Hardy ( Download Font )

Gipsiero ( Download Font )

LT Nutshell Library ( Download Font )

Beyond Sky font ( Download Font )

The Dreamer ( Download Font )

SANTOS DUMONT ( Download Font )

My Underwood ( Download Font )

Quid Pro Quo ( Download Font )

ARB-218 Big Blunt MAR-50 ( Download Font )

Justice by Dirt2 ( Download Font )

SickCapital Kingston ( Download Font )

Dirt2 Echo ( Download Font )

Ithornët ( Download Font )

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Fresh Collection Of High Quality Free Fonts for Professional Designs

Akhter — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:40:40 +0000

Fonts or typography holds critical importance in any web design, logo design, print advertisement, you name it. In the graphics and web designing field, fonts always play an important part in capturing the attention of the target audience. Therefore, having a good collection of high-quality fonts is a must when you are working on any design project, be it designing for the web or for the print media.

Here in this section, we are presenting a collection of some creative and fine looking fonts that you can use for your design projects, logo designs, brochures, posters, reports, designing books, cover letters and so on.

We hope that you will like this collection. Feel free to share this collection with others and let us know what you feel about this collection via comment section below. Enjoy!

RBNo2 free font ( Download Font )

Scruffy Regular and Scruffy Light ( Download Font )

Bohema ( Download Font )

Morning Glory ( Download Font )

Fuente Sketchy ( Download Font )

Code Free Font ( Download Font )

Lobster Font ( Download Font )

Ostrich Sans ( Download Font )

Calluna Sans (Rregistration is required) ( Download Font )

Blox ( Download Font )

Weston ( Download Font )

Dancing Script ( Download Font )

FF World Wide Web ( Download Font )

Highlands ( Download Font )

Bender (Rregistration is required) ( Download Font )

Ovalian Type ( Download Font )

The Kabel Font ( Download Font )

Claire Hand ( Download Font )

Piron Free Font V.2 ( Download Font )

Ultra ( Download Font )

FF Sero ( Download Font )

FREE FONT “HM02″ ( Download Font )

Vhia free font ( Download Font )

UNIK 2 ( Download Font )

Slice ( Download Font )

Egypt 22 Font ( Download Font )

Gota ( Download Font )

Hero ( Download Font )

AGE Free Font ( Download Font )

Linden Hill ( Download Font )

Fanwood ( Download Font )

Matilde ( Download Font )

Banda typeface ( Download Font )

Legion Slab Typeface ( Download Font )

ARS Novelty ( Download Font )

Quattrocento Roman ( Download Font )

Denne – At The Tea Party ( Download Font )

SD Cammello ( Download Font )

Jacked Eleven Highlight ( Download Font )

New Drop Era ( Download Font )

Square Comic ( Download Font )

Shin Akiba Punx ( Download Font )

Font liquit colour ( Download Font )

League Script ( Download Font )

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Five Great Web Applications For Designers And Alike

AN Jay — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 06:48:35 +0000

There are many web applications out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. Today, we are sharing Five Great Web Apps For Designers And Alike. Read each entry in the list and see which web application suits your needs best.

You are welcome if you want to share more web applications that our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com, just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and follow us on Digg as well to get updated.

LayerStyles

LayerStyles v 0.1 is just like your favorite graphics editor but in your browser. You can use it to create css code of the special effect you would like to give on your web design.

The Web Font Combinator

This tool was created in order to preview web font combinations. There have been various printed collections of font examples that the reader can combine in order to see how a header and body font work together.

Grid Calculator And Generator

GridCalc is a easy to use grid calculator. Just enter the desired width of your page and an aproximate range for your column and gutter width and the calculator will give you all the possible combinations within the limits you entered. You get a nice visual representation of the results, click preview on a result and you get a better presentation of how the grid can be used. When you have decided which grid configuration you want to use you can download the configuration as a css file to use in your project.

CSS3 Shapes

This is a very simple css3 snippets resource site from where you can find css3 code of different and unique shapes.

FontFont Subsetter

FontFont Subsetter is a tool for optimizing and customizing Web FontFonts in three easy steps. The free service lets you significantly reduce file sizes of your Web FontFonts to reduce bandwidth costs and make your websites faster.

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34 Fresh And Stunning Fonts That Can Enhance Your Designs

Akhter — Tue, 31 May 2011 10:51:55 +0000

Effectively usage of fonts in a web design not only makes it visually alluring but also conveys the message to the right targeted audience in a right tone. Basically typography is the art of arranging or modifying type glyphs. The filed of typography is continually evolving and now typography has become a key component of any web design. The proper selection of typography can make or break the complete design.

This round up covers fresh and stunning fonts which are available for free and can significantly enhance your web design. Have a look!

VAL Stencil

Four Free Type

20 GRUNGE FONTS by lexiibabii01

Groteska Free Typeface

Age Free Font

NULL Free Font

GOTA free font

Mod Gothic. Free

Doughboy – Free Font

Brava FREE Font

Hattori Hanzo typeface

QUB font

Banda

PT Sans

Pacifico

PowerChord

Throwupz

Soda font

Orial_Font by SoGoddess

Rusticus

Costura

Helveticrap
font

TYPORM01 Round ans Square by RGSONE

Cappuccino Serif Font 0.563 by keisans-bold

Tipografía Gratis: Spatha Serif

Lato

Ubuntu

Now!Grotesk typeface

Prognostic

Denne Shuffle by deathmunkey

Block Face

Akashi

Broken Records

Nevis

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11 Excellent Online Converters That Can Help You Convert Files And Formats

AN Jay — Wed, 11 May 2011 04:26:42 +0000

There are many online file converters out there for designers and developers, but getting by good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing 11 Excellent Online Converters That Can Help You Convert Files And Formats. Read each entry in the list and see which one suits your needs best.

You are welcome if you want to share more online converters that our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com, just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and follow us on Digg as well to get updated.

iWebPrint

You can convert web pages to elegant printer friendly PDF. It will also help you to save, read, and print dDirectly from your Browser. There is an option to control page size (Letter, Legal, A0-A9, B0-B10, +more), control orientation (Landscape, Portrait), Control PDF Mode (Color, Gray). If you want, you can exclude web page images or background to optimize printing. You can also use it as Chrome Extension or Firefox Add-On.

PDF to Flash Page Flip

This online tool will help you to convert your pdf files into a flash flipping book movie. This interesting tool will make your pdf visually more attractive and interactive.

FontConverter

With this online font converter you can convert even exotic font file formats into another format. They support most font file formats common on Mac or PC.

Free Online OCR

Free Online OCR is a free service that allows you to easily convert scanned documents, faxes, screenshots and photos into editable and searchable text, such as DOC, TXT or PDF.

Free online file converter

This free online file converter lets you convert media easy and fast from one format to another. They support a lot of different source formats, just try. If you can’t find the conversion you need, you can contact them. They will try to help you.

Picasion

You can create animated GIF online for free, Just upload your pictures or grab them from Flickr or Picasa Web, make avatars or funny animations and post it to MySpace, HI5, Facebook, eBay, Orkut, Bebo, Digg, QQ, Friendster, etc. To use this tool you do not need flash installed on your system.

Brickify

Brickify is an awesome tool that turns your images into bricked out awesome.

RoboVoice

RoboVoice is a text-to-speech service, that can help you to listen web pages. You may open a one page, starts to play a long text from it, and continues surfing in a new browser window.

CMYK Converter

CMYK Converter is a small application designed to make converting your images between RGB and CMYK colour profiles easy. It is aimed at non-professionals who may not have the desktop tools available. CMYK Converter uses the AppleRGB and US Web Coated SWOP colour profiles for converting.

Neevia Document Converter

Neevia Document Converter makes it possible for anyone to instantly convert many of the file formats that are used daily to PDF or Image. You do not need need to install anything on your computer. Simply upload the file and select your delivery method.

PDF to JPG

If you ever want to convert your pdf files into JPG file for any reason, then you can anytime use this pdf to jpg conversion tool.

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Absolutely Incredible Collection Of High-Quality Design Freebies For Designers

AN Jay — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:57:21 +0000

Today, we have made a list of incredible collection of high-quality design freebies. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible that are fresh and must have for designers.

You are welcome if you want to share more useful collection of design resources that our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com, just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and follow us on Digg as well to get updated.

50 Free Web UI, Mobile UI, Wireframe Kits And Source Files For Designers

45+ Neat Coming Soon and Under Construction Templates

50 More Beautifully Designed Tumblr Themes

Fresh Icon Sets To Improve Your Designs

Premium Quality Free WordPress Magazine Themes

80+ Color Altering Photoshop Actions

50+ Hand Picked (Yet Free To Use) Fonts for Designers

50 Fantastic Textures for Your Toolbox

Useful PSD Files For Your Creativity

60 Attractive Photoshop Grunge Brushes for Designers

45 Free And High Quality (X)HTML/CSS Website Templates

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Six Useful Google Code Labs Products For People Who Develop Websites

AN Jay — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:43:21 +0000

There are many web apps out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing some Useful Google Code Labs Products For People Who Develop Websites. In Google Code Labs, you’ll find developer products that are experimental but can become useful. Some of these will one day graduate out of labs, others may remain experimental or even be shut down. That’s what a lab is for. Read each entry in the list and see which tool suits your needs best.

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Google Safe Browsing API

The Safe Browsing API is an experimental API that enables client applications to check URLs against Google’s constantly updated blacklists of suspected phishing and malware pages. Your client application can use the API to download an encrypted table for local, client-side lookups of URLs that you would like to check. If you use this, you can warn users before clicking on links that appear in your site when they lead to malware-infested pages and prevent users from posting links to phishing pages from your site.

Google URL Shortener API

The Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters to make a link that is easier to share, tweet, or email to friends. The Google URL Shortener API allows you to develop applications that interface with this service. You can use simple HTTP methods to create, inspect, and manage goo.gl short URLs from your desktop, mobile, or web application.

reCAPTCHA

reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that protects your site against spam, malicious registrations and other forms of attacks where computers try to disguise themselves as a human; a CAPTCHA is a Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Human Apart. reCAPTCHA comes in the form of a widget that you can easily add to your blog, forum, registration form, etc.

BigQuery

BigQuery is a web service that enables you to do interactive analysis of massively large datasets. Scalable and easy to use, BigQuery lets developers and businesses tap into powerful data analytics on demand.

Google Font API

The Google Font API helps you add any high quality web fonts to any web page available at Google Font Directory. Applying a font is easy: just add a special stylesheet link to your web page, then use the font in a CSS style and you are
done.

Google Sites API

The Google Sites API allows client applications to access, publish, and modify content within a Google Site. The API is available to both Google Account and Google Apps users. You can create new sites or copy existing sites as well as
retrieve, create, modify, and delete pages, comments, attachments and can do much more…

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50+ Hand Picked (Yet Free To Use) Fonts for Designers

AN Jay — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:06:07 +0000

Every designer wants to make his artwork amazing and memorable; and for that he makes lots of effort. Fonts or typeface is one of the key components that outshine a design. Every designer is well aware of the importance of font in their design; and how an appropriate font can completely make or destroy a design.

Here, we have hand picked some very stylish and elegant free fonts for the graphic designers. These fonts help designers bring creativity and liveliness in their designs without spending too much time or resources.