Henry Jones – Web Design Ledger

40 Super Sleek Fonts for Clean Web Design

Henry Jones — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 15:00:45 +0000

A few weeks ago, I showed you some of the best fonts for use in grunge style design. Creating grungy designs can be fun, but sometimes a site requires a cleaner approach, one where artsy design elements take a back seat to clear presentation of content. Typography plays a big role in this type of design. If you have been struggling to find the right font for your clean designs, here are 40 of them that are both clean and beautiful.

Museo Sans

Geo Sans Light

Duepuntozero

Oregon LDO

Sansation

Engel Light

Comfortaa

Forgotten Futurist

Walkway

Steiner

Eurofurence

Baar Metanoia

Existence Light

Asenine

Anna

Cicle

Aubrey

Waukegan LDO

Qlassik

Bebas

Mank Sans

Yorkville

Redring 1969

Aldo

Blue Highway

Steelfish

Opticon One

Y2K Neophyte

Jacks Font

Swansea

Vegur

Albertino

Print Clearly

Liberation

Yoxall

Lois Ann

SF Arborcrest Medium

APHont

Fertigo Pro

Anivers

26 Free Progressive and Experimental Fonts

Henry Jones — Sat, 21 May 2016 00:50:17 +0000

Design is constantly changing and moving forward. However, typography is one aspect of design that seems to resist progression. When it comes to typography, there are standards and traditions that have been around for many years. These rules are there for a reason – to make sure that letters and words are legible. But to move forward, sometimes rules have to be broken. So for this post we’ve rounded up 26 free progressive and experimental fonts. These fonts might be pushing the limits of traditional type design, but the results are stunning.

Rounded

Cube 02

Paranoid

Dark Moon

Ultras

Gagalin

Nano

Slukoni

VAL

Guerrilla

Quadranta

Guest Circus Paradiso

Playtime

Sylar Stencil

Sans Serious

Kain Block

LOT

Clutchee

Tribbon

KnucklePuck

Etcetera

Amputa Bangiz

Betlog Square

Slimbo

Days

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70+ Beautiful Damask Patterns and Textures

Henry Jones — Tue, 17 May 2016 19:00:45 +0000

Damask is a weaving style or technique that originated in the early Middle Ages near Damascus, Syria. This particular style typically produced very ornate and decorative patterns in the fabric. These types of patterns are wonderful to use in a design that needs to have a vintage or ornate look. In this post there are over 70 beautiful damask patterns and textures that you can use in your designs.

All of these are free, but make sure to read the terms on the download pages before using.

Floral Vector Pattern

Free damask seamless pattern

Birthday Special

Teal Brown Grunge Damask

Dark Teal Damask Wallpaper

Patterns.2 (2 patterns)

Green Grunge Damask

Patterns Damask Wallpaper (25 patterns)

Nouveau Pattern 2

Damask Wallpaper patterns (25 patterns)

Teal Gold Damask

Wallpaper

Orange Damask Wallpaper

Orange Gold Damask

Big Damask Textures (6 textures)

Damask Brites Patterns

Gothic Mono

damask wallpaper

damask wallpaper 2

Charcoal Damask

Light blue damask

Damask Pack

8 Fresh Free Fonts for Your Designs

Henry Jones — Sun, 15 May 2016 19:00:26 +0000

Here at WDL we love to hunt down nice freebies for our readers… and one of our favorites freebies to find are fonts. Since we know that a fresh font is always a great asset to any designer, here are a few new fonts to spice up your designs. Click at the images to go to each website to download the fonts, enjoy!

Bohema

Airplane

Homestead

CS Benwood

Ribbon

Estelar

RBNo2

Collator

A Showcase of Website Navigations with Serious Click Appeal

Henry Jones — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 20:58:50 +0000

A while back we posted an article showcasing great website navigations. Consider this the sequel.

The website navigations is meant to be clicked. It doesn’t need to blend in or be hard to find. It’s important that it stands out from the rest of the elements on the page, but yet still matches the overall style of the design. Here is a showcase of websites that achieve this in a very stylish way. These navs look amazing, have serious click appeal, and are guaranteed to inspire you.

Clicking on the images will take you to each site.

20 Fonts Ideal for Big and Powerful Headings

Henry Jones — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 13:51:20 +0000

Headings play a major role in the way users digest content. Through size and style, they help establish a hierarchy and make text easy to scan. The design of your heading also help establish the mood created by a design. So it’s important to choose the right font to compliment the website’s style.

For this article, we’ve rounded up 20 fonts that are ideal for creating big and powerful headings for your web designs.

30 Extremely Elegant Serif Fonts

Henry Jones — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 07:02:37 +0000

A few weeks ago, I showed you a bunch of super sleek fonts to use in your clean designs, but if you’re looking to establish a classic mood for a design, you may want to choose elegant serif fonts.

This article presents to you 30 of the best free serif fonts around…