And here it is another Pearl from the Envato’s Community, how to choosing the right Fonts for your workflow.
Another amazing Article to help you out on how to be always better on your work day by day.
Enjoy this Post!

Typography is an huge field. People devote years of their lives to this ancient craft, and yet there’s always something new to learn. In this article, I’ll be reviewing the major points that you should consider when selecting a typeface for a website.

Practical Typography

When you design for the web, you have to accept that the content will change. It’s simply out of the question to take the time to kern (adjust space between individual letters) each title on a huge website. In other words, you give up some control.
What I’m going to be focusing on today is practical typography. For me, this means accepting that you will never have total control over the type on your websites. Choosing a typeface, deciding on a size, these are all things we as designers have a say in. Practical typography means learning how, and more importantly why, to adjust what you do have control over. Let’s get started.

Readability

What do you do with type? Read it! So why do so many websites make it so damned difficult to do just that? Be it tiny font sizes, crammed line-height, or just plain ugly fonts, it seems that a lot of sites out there are determined to not let you enjoy their content!
By making your type readable, you immediately jump ahead of at least half of the competition, which is fortunate, really, because it’s not that hard!

Typefaces

When deciding what typeface to use on your website, it’s important to remember: don’t over think it. I know that many designers hate using Helvetica, because it is wildly overused. I agree with this, but there’s one very important piece of information this statement leaves out: why. People overuse Helvetica because it’s just so damn good. It fits right in with virtually every design imaginable, it works well in small, as well as huge sizes.
While it may go against your beliefs to set your type in such an abused face, if it works, then go for it.
Your body copy is arguably the part of your design that needs to be most readable, so make sure you pick a font that works well in small sizes. What do I mean by that? If you can set your copy to 10px and you can still make out what it says, then that’s a good indication you’ve chosen a readable typeface.
That covers body copy, but what about titles?
Readability in large titles is far easier to figure out than in body copy. If you can make out what it says immediately, then it’s readable enough.
What’s good about typefaces is that once you’ve worked on enough projects, you’ll have a good idea of what works and what doesn’t. From there, you’ll be in a better position to make critical choices about fonts.
There’s no formula for choosing the right fonts for your website. Often, the best way to decide on one is to just try out each font you think might work, and then compare. Choosing fonts is really a gut instinct, but it’s important to remember that 90% of the time, a user won’t be thinking about what font is used, so if it’s readable, then that’s often good enough.

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Here’s a nice list of the best Blogs out there that influence the Design community, I found it on another awesome Blog called “Blog Web Designer“.
I hope you’ll find this usefull for your work!
Enjoy!



There are many design blogs around the world that have articles about web design, inspiration, freelancing, wallpapers, freebies and wordpress related topics. Since every web designer loves to find new and fresh content and to stay up-to-date with trends and techniques, I have compiled 51 design blogs with RSS feeds and twitter accounts. Enjoy!

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Hello there,
here I have found another great Post from the Blog “Beautiful life”, for your inspirations only, to create some new awesome Twitter backgrounds.
Enjoy!

Twitter is one of the most popular social networking sites to communicate with millions of people every day. One of the advantages of Tweeter is the possibility to personalize your account as you like. For this purpose you can design your own background. Backgrounds of some twitter accounts are truly masterpieces of design and samples of exquisite taste of their creator’s.

Again a fantastic Post from “Geekchix“.
When you wish to create something, or start a new Project, you need to concentrate yourself, how to begin your work or how to put a structure on scratch for your new Webpage, or a new App for mobile require again a strong plan, for pics, for buttons and so on, how to start?
This Post is a simple List of many Sketch Templates that will help you to improve your skills and your workflow everytime you have to start.
Enjoy!

At the beginning of a web (or application) development project I always create the sketches first. While sketching can be done on a blank paper, it’s much better to use a sketch template. For me that is the best and most productive way to work on and improve my ideas before application development begins (and things get more complicated ). This way I won’t pay too much attention to some details that should be taken care of later, but stay focused on general layout and functionality.

Below you will find more than 20 resources that you can use in sketching phase of application development. If you have some additional resources to share, please leave a comment so I can add them to the list.

Printable sketch templates for websites

Printable sketch templates for mobile applications

Sketch Books

Make you own sketch templates

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Hello there,
these days I’ve found an amazing Post on “Beautiful Life“, a gorgeous Blog for Designers and not only, about a really remarkable Idea, for my opinion, one of the best one on our days.
There was always a war between different possibility to hear an Audio File, like a Wav, or mp3, or Vinyl or cd and many others.
Anyway David Riesenberg has a great idea to pack all these ways togheter in just one thing, and I hope this will be the future.
Think about it, no more converters, no more different players, pretty cool isn’t it?
What do you think about it?
Feel free to put some comments and
Enjoy!

If you ask the older generation, which is better – CD or mp3, they will answer – “vinyl”. In fact, the dispute about which format is better – is meaningless. The only difference is what feelings cause certain media. Industrial designer David Riesenberg has developed a project called “O+ Promotional Music Release”, which will once and for all stop such a disputes.

He joined together: a vinyl record, a compact disc, USB flash drive and as an iTunes Download Code. The designer does not expect the mass production of his invention, but for limited edition series to get an extra buzz, this project is completely viable.

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When someone is searching for inspirations, everyday there’s a chance to find something that change your lifestyle or scopes on work and so on.
Well, today I think its happened to me, I mean, I was searching for something great, and I’ve found this: well, at this moment I’m falled in love with this Desk, because I love every single Detail, and for my honest opinion, it’s a very smartass Desk.
See for yourself.

take a look at Soren’s work here