by Kaz | Jan 8, 2017 | Fonts
Last week I wrote about the most popular sans serif fonts of 2016. This week I focus on the top 10 most used serif fonts. According to Typewolf, the top ten most popular serif fonts in 2016 were: Caslon Garamond Minion FF Tisa Freight Text Tiempose Text Miller Calluna... 
by Kaz | Jan 1, 2017 | Fonts
Happy New Year and welcome to 2017 It’s a brand new year and like many people I often reflect on the past year. As a graphic and website designer, I also look at current and projected design trends, and will share things on Pinterest. This year, I’ve... 
by Kaz | Jan 14, 2016 | Graphic Design Terms, Uncategorized
In my previous post, I mentioned x-height. Were you wondering what it meant? It sounds pretty obvious, right? And it is. So is cap height. In typography, the x-height is the height of lowercase letters that do not have an ascender or descender, represented by the... 
by Kaz | Jan 12, 2016 | Graphic Design Terms, Uncategorized
Have you heard the terms ascender and descender? Do you know what they are? An ascender is the part of a lowercase letter that extends above the mean line of a font, or x-height, whereas the descender is the part that appears below the base line of a font. (See the... 
by Kaz | Jan 10, 2016 | Graphic Design Terms, Uncategorized
When it comes to choosing typefaces and fonts in graphic design, it’s important to make sure they are both legible and readable. But what’s the difference? Legibility is a measure of how easy it is to distinguish one letter or character from another in a...
