Typography

How to tell if a font is copyrighted
How To Tell If A Font Is Copyrighted & Why You Should Always Check
How To Tell If A Font Is Copyrighted & Why You Should Always Check 800 470 Nick Saporito

Working with fonts is a daily routine for designers and creative professionals alike. Whether you’re a graphic designer, web designer, publisher, or anything else that requires creative copy, you’ve likely worked with many different fonts. Not all fonts are created equal though, and they all come with varying usage permissions. In this post I’m going…

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Best free logo fonts
My 14 Best Free Logo Fonts | Personal and Commercial Use Included
My 14 Best Free Logo Fonts | Personal and Commercial Use Included 800 470 Nick Saporito

In my 8 years of being a full-time logo designer I’ve used and come across many different fonts, but the fonts that I use most often today have been reduced down to a small handful of reliable free fonts that never fail me. In this post I’ll be sharing 14 of my best free logo…

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Logo font pairings
My 11 Favorite Font Pairings for Logo Design
My 11 Favorite Font Pairings for Logo Design 1024 602 Nick Saporito

One of the more challenging aspects of designing logos is finding a nice font to pair with them, and things get a little trickier when pairing multiple fonts together. Sometimes fonts don’t pair well with each other, and finding fonts that do can be a frustrating process. In this post I’m going to share 11…

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Photography logo fonts
11 Best Photography Logo Fonts for 2020 | Free Download
11 Best Photography Logo Fonts for 2020 | Free Download 1024 602 Nick Saporito

In this post I’ll be sharing a collection of the 11 best photography logo fonts that can be downloaded and used commercially, free of charge. My criteria for choosing these fonts is that they must have a hand drawn, personalized signature sort of look. This is the style that tends to work best for photography…

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Negative space typography examples
16 Examples Of Negative Space Typography
16 Examples Of Negative Space Typography 1024 602 Nick Saporito

Utilizing the negative space of a subject to communicate something in addition to what the subject already communicates is a clever technique and something I’ve always been a fan of personally. In this post I’ll be sharing 16 of my favorite negative space typography examples that I found on the internet, in addition to a…

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Famous fonts used in logos
12 Famous Fonts Used in Logos
12 Famous Fonts Used in Logos 1024 602 Nick Saporito

In a post last year I wrote about the benefits of using premium fonts for logo design as opposed to free fonts. In today’s post I’ll be expanding on that a bit by showing 12 different examples of famous fonts used in logos, and just for kicks I even mocked up the logos with the names…

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My 12 Best Small Caps Fonts | Free Downloads
My 12 Best Small Caps Fonts | Free Downloads 1024 602 Nick Saporito

A small caps font is any font in which both the uppercase and lowercase variations of a letter are capitalized. The best small caps fonts do so while maintaining a consistent weight throughout each letter. The above image depicts both an uppercase and a lowercase letter A. Notice how they’re both capitalized though. A common…

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Free elegant script fonts
14 Best Free Elegant Script Fonts for 2018
14 Best Free Elegant Script Fonts for 2018 1024 602 Nick Saporito

In today’s post I’ll be sharing the 14 best free elegant script fonts that I’ve come across so far in 2018 that allow commercial use. This is somewhat similar to my list of free calligraphy fonts, however the main difference is that these script fonts are more formal and less whimsical. If that’s the look you’re…

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Modern serif fonts free
9 Best Modern Serif Fonts – Free Downloads | 2018
9 Best Modern Serif Fonts – Free Downloads | 2018 1024 602 Nick Saporito

Serifs are the tiny lines that tail the edges of a letter or a symbol. Serif fonts are primarily used for print and large bodies of text because they make it easier to distinguish individual characters. For whatever reason though, serif fonts don’t seem to be very popular in modern branding (with the exception of the new…

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Free calligraphy fonts
11 Free Calligraphy Fonts To Add To Your Collection
11 Free Calligraphy Fonts To Add To Your Collection 1024 602 Nick Saporito

Every once in a while I’ll do a roundup of some free fonts that I’ve been enjoying lately and share them in a post. As I’ve talked about in the past, I’m usually not crazy about free fonts because they tend to be overused and abused and come with a stigma because of it, but…

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