Showcase: Typography in WordPress Blog Design & Resources

22nd Jun 2010 | Posted by Yahya | 10 Comments

Typeface is the most important element used in a blog or website. When people come to your blog they don’t care much about background image, sound, or effect you use. First, they wanna see your title, then about what you wanna share, and then your content. So you should use the exact typeface in order to make people confort and stay in your blog.

Have you been heard about Serif and San Serif ? it’s basic type face or font that generally use in web design, there are a lot font around the world that you usually use based from that two basic typeface.

Resources for Free Fonts

Here some free font that you can use for your web design :

Google Font API



Urban Fonts



Fonts2u

Resources for tools and tutorials

To help you improve the typography in your web designs, below here some useful how-to and resources articles related to typography.

6 Ways To Improve Your Web Typography



Spice Up Your Web Typography with @Font-Face



The Essential Guide to @font-face



How to Use the New Google Font API



10 Great Tips For Improving Your Web Typography

Showcase for design inspiration

Here are some samples of typeface that people use in their wordpress blog :

Living Design



Drexler



Epic Agency



Jeroen Homan



Vecechiara



Cherished trinkets



DontTrustThisGuy



Get Inspired Magazine



Ink Byte



Typefaces



Fresh01



Morphix Blog



MondayByNoon



Fabrica de Caricaturas



El Movimiento Audiografico



Blissfully Aware



Joystick Generals



Web Is Love



Aaron Irizarry



Freehand Futurist



Tyler Termini



Cindy Sutton



Acidsmile



Mammut Medien

So.. that’s all. What do you think about it? do i miss something? If you have any sugestion or any thinks else, please feel free to say it!

6 Comments to “Showcase: Typography in WordPress Blog Design & Resources”

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1. Jae Xavier says:

   June 22, 2010 at 15:18

   cool! these will come in handy! thanks ^^

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2. satrya says:

   June 29, 2010 at 21:40

   Wow nice collection.. thx brother

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3. ardianzzzz says:

   July 9, 2010 at 04:08

   Hey thats cool!
   Thank you

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   • Yahya says:

     July 9, 2010 at 22:23

     sama-sama, glad you like it!

     Reply
4. Joel Skotak says:

   January 6, 2011 at 15:32

   I really enjoy the “Typefaces” website. It is clean, simple, yet sophisticated. Thanks for the collection/inspiration!

   Reply
5. Josephine Frix says:

   August 25, 2011 at 03:17

   What blogs do you read for information on the candidates?

   Reply

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