The way you present your post is crucial to attract more visitors on your site and to enlarge your public.
Every time I add a new post on my blog I spend a little bit of time to prepare a well presented post, adding for example some explanation images with some comments using a pencil and handwritten style which my readers love! I receive daily at least two emails where some readers ask to me what is the font I use in my tutorials to simulate this effect and how I design pencil-style lines. So I decided to add a little explanation in this post.
Pencil style
Since I started this blog I used this style (pencil + handwritten), to design all images I added to my post. Now, I can say it has been a good choice because it's a little particular which my readers love and, in some way, gives a little bit of personality to my post. To design my pecil-handwritten images I use a standard Illustrator brush:
Handwritten fonts
For explanation text I use Kelly Script and for the header (or simply to obtain a nice graphic effect) I use Cutty Fruit:
For my new tag cloud in the header of my blog (and for the new logo) I used Vintage font instead of Anarchistic which I used for the header of my old site.
I prepared a zip file with these font which you can download here:
Download Woork font collectionOk, it's all! I hope you can find this post useful to find new ideas and inspiration for your site!
I am Antonio Lupetti, Engineer, Pro Blogger, Mac user, Web addicted.
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Cool! Thanks! :)
Really nice! This will come in handy when presenting my thoughts and crazy ideas. Thanks!
I love how the posts are presented here. Thanks for the info.
thanks !!
Thank you so much :-)
Grazie
Where do you download handwritten fonts? :)
Um, sorry to be a pain, but the pictures on this post look like they are broken. May just be me, but thought I'd mention it.
Cool! I like the way you create graphics. Very original.
Thanks for sharing your increbible style!
Thanks !
Oh Thank you! I absolutely LOVE your site, so thank you for being so productive and creative!
Antonio,
I love your website. Some great articles and lovely design too.
I thought you should know that the Woork Font Collection ZIP file appears to be corrupt. Specifically, the Anarchistic font is 0KB. The other three fonts are fine.
However, the Anarchistic font can be downloaded freely at http://www.dafont.com.
@Nikopolidis, this should answer your question about where to get some good script fonts. DaFont has lots of free fonts to download and their website makes it very easy to find one (or more) that you like.
nice font, thanks! :)
Thank you for the Font Collection zip! I really appreciate all your posts.
Karina.
Thanks a lot!! This will be very usefull for my blog ;)
grazie per lo zip con i fonts!
I just found your site, and very upset because it is so helpful! I like it!
How kind of u to give em' away for free! Thank you for the great collection!
Hi!
Thanks for the fonts, I just love your blog, I can't believe that is a blogger one, just like mine :D
Congrats, it's so cool!
Cheers, I love your blog, and have been wanting to adopt this (or a similar) method.
Sorry to be a Newbie but I have no idea what to do after downloadig.. where do I upload the files? My site? My harddrive? Any help is appreciated.. Thanks.
Love the site!
QUESTION
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how do you create those screenshots to look nice...for example the screenshots of webpages and even the adobe illustrator toolbar you have on there....how do you make the whole image?
Also illustrator cs3 is a pain in the ass compared to fireworks...i don't know how to save image in .png with illustrator...how do you do that also?
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Cool!
I'm brazilian illustrator.
Thank you so much.
:)