Smashing Network “What Font Should I Use?”: Five Principles for Choosing and Using Typefaces

Awesome article from Smashing Magazine

For many beginners, the task of picking fonts is a mystifying process. There seem to be endless choices — from normal, conventional-looking fonts to novelty candy cane fonts and bunny fonts — with no way of understanding the options, only never-ending lists of categories and recommendations. Selecting the right typeface is a mixture of firm rules and loose intuition, and takes years of experience to develop a feeling for. Here are five guidelines for picking and using fonts that I’ve developed in the course of using and teaching typography.

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Awesome Typography

I came across this as I was looking for something  else and just thought it was pretty cool. There are more awesome typography ideas on “Best Photoshop Tutorials.”

2 Weeks Till Christmas…

I still haven’t started shopping and its less then two weeks away.

Vintage Patterns

I just found a awesome site to buy vintage patterns at LanetzLiving, hopefully I get them soon!