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Typography is probably one of the most important aspects of graphic design. It's very essential for any designer to master typography. An important part of typography is selecting the right typeface for a project. Choosing the wrong typeface can greatly affect the design in a negative way.
Read more...There are a lot of well-designed fonts around and one of them is Comic Sans. In this post, I will tell you a little bit about the history of Comic Sans. You can also view the examples of designs using Comic Sans and you can find out when to use this great font.
Read more...In case you didn't know yet, Design Informer is powered by Wordpress on the back-end. The great thing about Wordpress is they have tons of plugins that you can download for free. From SEO to Analytics, if there is a feature that you can think of adding to your blog, there is probably already a plugin that was created for that purpose.
Today, I would like to share the 17 really awesome plugins that I personally use to run and operate this website. Without these plugins, this site would not have all the features that it does. Some of these plugins are extremely popular, while others are not as popular, but they are still quite useful.
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It's a shame how often email signatures are done poorly nowadays. Many people want their signature to reflect their personality, provide pertinent information and more, but they can easily go overboard.
This article provides you with a good number of useful techniques that will help you optimize your PNG-images. The techniques are derived from laborious hours spent on studying how exactly the PNG encoder saves data.
Be sure to check out this post! Here you will find some really valuable tools that will help you save your precious time, automate mundane tasks and hence help you focus on more important things.
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