May 22nd, 2008
by
Brett Bumeter
Back in the 90’s (early 90’s), it was still cool to find a new CD with a hundred or so fonts for $30 (clearance $5) at Office Depot or something. Fifteen years later that just isn’t cool but there is a growing need again for fonts. Instead of trying to get some obscure font for a Word Perfect document, people are trying to get an obscure font for their website, logo, or blog.
Well, with the power of Adobe and 1001Fonts.com, that is pretty easy and it just happens to be free too!
Download Free Fonts @ 1001 Fonts .com
They actually probably have more than 1001 fonts, (I haven’t and won’t count, but I’d bet you could add a zero to that number).
So the next time you just have to set up a niche blog for outdoor furniture or people that love to polish teak chests, and you need that perfect font that no one else will find. You know where to go!
January 28th, 2008
by
Brett Bumeter
One of my least favorite tasks to do when creating a website is to generate an icon. Icons are those little 16 x 16 bit images that appear next to a URL in a browser address bar or these days with tabbed browsing the icon also appears next to the page title name in the tab, just to the left.
Example of Address Bar with Icon
Example of Tab with Icon
Now, let me just say right off the bat, that I suck at creating icons for websites. That said a bad icon can sometimes be better than no icon at all.
So here are a couple tools that might help you create better looking icons than I can create.
- EasyApps
- PixelToolBox
I have been using PixelToolBox for about a year now and you can tell by the results above that I am not terribly great with the tool. I did find EasyApps a little easier. With EasyApps, I was actually able to create an icon with Illustrator and then copy the image into EasyApps, where it is converted into a pixelated icon.
Best of luck, this is just one area where I can never seem to get it right, but I do wish you the best with your own efforts. Every time I give this a try it makes me want to pack web design in and go install TV’s or tv mounts or something.
