helpmechris.com » Design http://www.helpmechris.com Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:07:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 65 Resources for Grid-Based Design http://www.helpmechris.com/2008/04/02/65-resources-for-grid-based-design/ http://www.helpmechris.com/2008/04/02/65-resources-for-grid-based-design/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:03:31 +0000 Chris Brown http://www.helpmechris.com/2008/04/02/65-resources-for-grid-based-design/ Great Articles and Resources, Check it out…

65 Resources for Grid-Based Design | Vandelay Website Design

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]]> http://www.helpmechris.com/2008/02/14/iamamandaorg/feed/ 1 New Site Design for my Bands in Progress http://www.helpmechris.com/2007/07/30/new-site-design-for-my-bands-in-progress/ http://www.helpmechris.com/2007/07/30/new-site-design-for-my-bands-in-progress/#comments Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:32:36 +0000 Chris Brown http://www.helpmechris.com/2007/07/30/new-site-design-for-my-bands-in-progress/ Hi everyone. I spent about ten hours yesterday adding a new site for The Chris Brown Trio… I also added some new videos on my youtube channel. You can see it all at Bonedriven.com. It’s not completely finished and tweaked out but it’s getting close. I still have some hours of css styling/type work to make it truly beautiful.

]]> http://www.helpmechris.com/2007/07/30/new-site-design-for-my-bands-in-progress/feed/ 0 You’ll never find that font again, or will you? http://www.helpmechris.com/2007/07/18/find-font/ http://www.helpmechris.com/2007/07/18/find-font/#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:14:58 +0000 Chris Brown http://www.helpmechris.com/2007/07/18/find-font/ As designers we used to rely on colleagues or our brains to match a font. When we drew a blank we would end up tracing the client’s type with paths. No more. Now there are online resources for matching fonts.

Narrowing it Down

I know of a couple of sites that let you narrow down your font selection one step at a time by identifying the traits that your target font has. You can search by sight at identifont.com which I’ve been playing with all day and you can also try to the search by sight tool at fonts.com

Another option is to try myfonts.com where you can upload an image file which will be processed and compared to their database for close matches. Very cool.

Going Old-School

A last resort is utilizing methods that have been around forever. You can do take old fashion approach of looking through hundreds of fonts using windows font preview or a font manager such as Suitcase or ATM, but from here on out you can at least try taking a shortcut before you trace a logo or dig through a thousand fonts.

Hopefully we’ll never have to endure the accumulated weeks of time that we’ve all spent in the past tracing text from client’s logos. It’s great that the future is here.

Happy font hunting.

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Find it here

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Color Inspiration from the Masters of Painting

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The 35 Sexiest Designed Websites you’ve Forgotten, part 4 – PhilRenaud.com

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The sIFR site says ‘sIFR is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in your typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems.’

sIFR 2.0: Rich Accessible Typography for the Masses

]]> http://www.helpmechris.com/2007/07/05/mike-davidson-sifr-20-rich-accessible-typography-for-the-masses/feed/ 0 Link: The Secret to Understanding Design on Baekdal.com http://www.helpmechris.com/2007/07/05/link-the-secret-to-understanding-design-on-baekdalcom/ http://www.helpmechris.com/2007/07/05/link-the-secret-to-understanding-design-on-baekdalcom/#comments Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:33:25 +0000 Chris Brown http://helpmechris.com/?p=274 Check out this awesome article on design trends… the charts are great…

The Secret to Understanding Design – Baekdal.com

]]> http://www.helpmechris.com/2007/07/05/link-the-secret-to-understanding-design-on-baekdalcom/feed/ 0 I’ve been doing a little work for Lisa-Adelle Design http://www.helpmechris.com/2002/07/24/ive-been-doing-a-little-work-for-lisa-adelle-desi/ http://www.helpmechris.com/2002/07/24/ive-been-doing-a-little-work-for-lisa-adelle-desi/#comments Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:11:00 +0000 Chris Brown http://helpmechris.com/?p=233 I’ve been doing a little work for Lisa-Adelle Design this past week or so. Did some photoshop work on some stuff they were doing for Piercing Pagoda and made some changes to they’re site. The people are nice and the work is good…peace

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