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Monday, 5 October 2009

10 Beautiful and free must have Serif Fonts

1. Medio (download)

Medio is one of my favourite fonts designed by dotcolon (the same authors of Vegur, Tenderness and Ferrum)

2. Jura (download)

Jura is a distinctive yet readable serif typeface, suitable for headings and body content alike. It features 96 of the most commonly used glyphs (characters).

3. Fontin (download)

The Fontin is designed to be used at small sizes. The color is darkish, the spacing loose and the x-height tall. Don't forget to check Fontin Sans!

4. Sling (download)

Sling is a versatile typeface available in bold, normal and light version.

5. Calluna Regular (download)

Calluna regular is a popular typeface designed by Jos Buivenga author the best seller font Museo on myfonts.com.

6. Lido STF (download)

Lido STF is a font designed by František Štorm for the periodical Lidové noviny (People’s Newspaper). This font is a modification of the original Times New Romans font.

7. Salernomi (download)

Salernomi is an elegant typeface designed by Julius B. Thyssen. You can use it with a perfect result for the web and print.

8. Novello Pro (download)

Novello Pro is a moderate Roman typeface with round serifs and modern details designed by Ingo Zimmermann.

9. Steinem (download)

10. TeX Gyre Schola (download)

TeX Gyre Schola is another great serif font especially useful for the print.

Source:

http://woork.blogspot.com/2009/09/10-beautiful-and-free-must-have-serif.html

10 Awesome typewriter fonts for web designers

1. King (download)

King is an elegant and highly readable typewriter font useful to design titlesheaders. and

Download King

2. 39 Smooth (download)

39 Smooth is a large-space font. I prefer use it in a big size to design headersDownload 39 Smooth and titles

3. Underwood 1913 (download)

Underwood 1913 is a dirt-line font. Useful for old-style sites to design headerstitles. and

Download Underwood 1913

4. Type-RA (download)

Type-Ra is another dirt-line font useful to design old design elements. I prefer use it in a small size.

Download Type-Ra

5. Last Words (download)

Last Words is a large typewriter font. Nice using big size for title and headers.

Download Last Words

6. F25 Executive (download)

F25 Executive is a very. To design text elements and headers for old-style letters or vintage websites.

Download F25 Executive

7. Telegraphem (download)

Telegraphem is an uppercase typewriter font. Useful to design old style labels using small size.

Download Telegraphem

8. Another Typewriter (download)

Another Typewriter is one of my preferred typewriter font, highly readable for titles, headers or simple text.

Download Another Typewriter

9. Stalker (download)

Stalker is a large-space font. I prefer use it with a big size (greater than 40pt).

Download Stalker

10. XBand Rough (download)

XBand Rough is another uppercase typewriter font. Useful to design old style labels (I like medium size 16pt-30pt)

Download XBand Rough

Source:

http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/08/10-awesome-typewriter-fonts-for-web.html

10 Handwritten fonts you can't miss

1. Analgesics (Download)

Analgesics is a "bold" font particular useful to design heder elements.

Download Analgesics

2. Sketch Rockwell (Download)

This is absolutely my preferred handwritten font, very good to be used, with a big size, for titles and headers.

Download Sketch Rockwell

3. Joe Hand (Download)

Joe Hand is a "fast" handwritten font, nice using small size.

Download Joe Hand

4. Two Turtle Doves (Download)

Two Turtle Doves is e big size font good to design big titles or headers.

Download Two Turtle Doves

5. Estrya's Handwriting (Download)

This is a beautiful font design by Jellyka Nerevan free to use for a personal use. You can use this font to design, for example, notes like this:

Download Estrya's Handwritting

6. Gregs Other Hand (Download)

Gregs Other Hand is an uppercase font you can use for note header like this:

...or with Estrya's (font 5 in this list) to obtain a crayon + pencil effect:

Download Gregs Other Hand

7. Later On (Download)

Later On is a slimmish font which I suggest you to use for big size titles (use a size greater then 42 point for a better effect)

Download Later On

8. Bubbly Frog (Download)

Bubbly Frog is another font useful to design titles or header elements.

Download Bubbly Frog

9. Rai Elegant (Download)

Rai is an elegant handwritten font I prefer to use for small text:

Download Rai

10. Imitation (Download)

Imitaion is another "big" font useful to design titles and headers elements.

Download Imitation

Source:

http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/08/10-handwritten-fonts-you-cant-miss.html

5 Beautiful penstyle fonts

1. Walk Around the World

Download Walk Around the World - Walk Around the World is a beautiful font set designed from Nicole Dalesio.

2. Pastas

Download Pastas - Pastas is a strong font set designed by Subcoolture:

3. Pointy

Download Pointy - Pointy is another nice font set designed by James Beardmore. You can use it for free for personal, non profit use. For commercial licensing, please contact the author.

4. Euphoric

Download Euphoric - Euphoric is a beauty font to design big header elements:

5. Dumpster Diver

Download Dumpster Diver - Dumpster Diver is an upper case big font set designed by Jsh Wilhelm:

Source:

http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/10/5-beautiful-pen-style-fonts-set.html

How to implement a Post-to-Wall Facebook-like using PHP and jQuery

Take a mind, every post in the Facebook Wall contains a lot of information (user, sender, message content, date, number of comments, ...):

This tutorial is for Ajax/jQuery/PHP beginners. So I decided to simplify the original Wall using just a single information: the message content.

In this tutorial we have these files:

- confing.php (database connection parameters)
- index.php
- insert.php
- jquery.js

How the Wall works?

index.php contains a form with id "submit_form" with an input text with id "message_wall". When an user submits a new message. Then the new message is appends to top of the ul list with id "wall" with a nice fade-in effect (with jQuery). Ok, now take a look at the code.

1. index.php
index.php is very simple and contains just simple HTML code:

<form id="submit_wall">
<label for="message_wall">Share your message on the Wall</label>
<input type="text" id="message_wall" />
<button type="submit">Post to wall</button>
</form>

<ul id="wall">
</ul>

The <ul> list with id "wall" is the "container" of messages which are posted into the wall.

2. JavaScript Code
Open index.php and include jQuery in the <head> tag of the page:

...then add this simple function to enable Ajax functionalities to insert the message posted from the user into a database table without reload the page:

.prepend(...) is a jQuery function to insert elements inside, at the beginning, of a specific element (in this case UL list with id wall -->$("ul#wall")). When the new message is added into the list is hidden (display:none). Then it appears with a fade-in effect:

$("ul#wall li:first").fadeIn();

ul#wall:first: gets the first li element (the last added) into the ul list with id "#wall".

3. insert.php
insert.php contains some lines of PHP code to insert the new message into a database table. In this example I created a table WALL with just one attribute "message". PHP code is very simple:

<?php
if(isset($_POST['message_wall'])){
/* Connection to Database */
include('config.php');
/* Remove HTML tag to prevent query injection */
$message = strip_tags($_POST['message_wall']);

$sql = 'INSERT INTO WALL (message) VALUES( "'.$message.'")';
mysql_query($sql);
echo $message;
} else { echo '0'; }
?>

That's all! Download the source code ready to use in your web projects.

Source:

http://woork.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-implement-post-to-wall-facebook.html

14 Best Online Typography Tools for Web Designers

Since typography is one of the most challenging and important aspects of web design, it’s important to have useful tools that can make things easier. Here’s a list of tools that will be a big help in making your typography beautiful, and you won’t even have to leave your browser.