Curated OER
Business: Designing Business Cards
Students design and create business cards using Adobe Photoshop. Once they have applied techniques of typography and layout design, students identify redesign aspects and its importance in the design process. In a slide show, completed...
Other
Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles
An online manual for Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites. Includes links to Philosophy, Interface Design, Site Design, Page Design, Web Graphics, and Web Multimedia and Animation chapters, with Appendices.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Web Design: Module 7: Web Development
In Module 7 of this course on web design, students learn how to use CSS style rules to create the page layout, color scheme, and typography for a web site's design. From this, they learn how to create a template that can be used over and...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Web Design: Module 5: Design Elements
In Module 5 of this course on web design, students learn about the design elements of web page design. They learn about page layout, color schemes, typography, and site navigation.
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Wpr: Designing for Multiple Browsers Without Being Bland
Information on Web design that addresses multiple browser design techniques. A great site for learning how to make an effective web page.
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Wizhat: How to Design a Great Web Site
Information on Web designing. Includes learning HTML, write what you're good at, color and design are important, and using tables. Includes example pages of techniques.
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Typography for Lawyers
Typographer-turned-lawyer blogs about the nature of typography, why it is important, and elements of basic, intermediate, and advanced typographical design.
Get It Write
Get It Write: One Space of Two After Periods? (And Other Typography Issues)
Read some rules about typography that have changed because of the use of word processing rather than typewriters. This tutorial explains spacing after all punctuation, the use of em dashes and en dashes, and the use of italics.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Beginning Graphic Design
Learn how color, layout, images, composition, typography, branding, and more relate to graphic design.
Other
Family Classifications of Type: Sans Serif
This article describes the development of the Sans Serif type family and provides an example of the font.
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Abc Typography: A Virtual Museum of Typography
This site from ABC Typography provides a historical look at the (main) different typefaces since the late 1400s. The site covers history and designers.
Other
Web Developer: Neon Text in Photoshop
Step-by-step instructions on creating neon text in Adobe Photoshop, just like the neon signs in store windows.