Font Research: Lucida Grande (win) Hidden File

Font-lucida-grande

So today I was reading my weekly newsletter from SitePoint.com and I learned something new that got me a little excited.  So I am going to share it with you.  So the newsletter that I was reading was called "What Fonts are Web-Safe in 2009?" and its a great article to so go look for it at Site Point's website!  They mentioned the font Lucida Grande, for all you Mac users you know it right off the bat, but on the other hand for Windows users (most) dont know about this hidden font if you use the Windows Safari Browser.  Look at the quoted message from the article I pulled and go copy and paste into your C:\WINDOWS\Fonts folder and its that easy.  I never knew this and thought it was pretty neat!  Tell me what you think.

"The cool aspect for Windows users is that the font comes free with Safari for Windows. All you need to do is locate it in the Safari folder and copy it to the fonts folder:

C:\Program Files\Safari\Safari.resource"



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Brandon
B.Design-Studio - Founder/CEO
Web Designer

Font Find: Hand of Sean

Handofsean

I am going to start doing a hunt for high-quality free fonts to blog about once a week.  All of them are well worth downloading and adding to your collection to use on your current and future design work.  This week is 'Hand of Sean' by Sean Johnson.  He did an amazing job to create a Hand written styled font of his own.  I use this as a Signature for my designs because it looks so damn awesome.  Best hand written styled font I have ever used.

Sean Johnson's Website:
http://www.seanjohnson.net

Font Download (Dafont.com):
http://www.dafont.com/hand-of-sean.font

Let him know what you think of the font, I am sure he takes good feedback from it!

BlogSpoon Graphics iPhone Wallpaper

Blogspoon

So I was reading some blogs and I came across Blog Spoon Graphics by Chris Spooner, and I found a free background for the iPhone that he created.  It's his "5 Genuine Carbon Fiber Textures for Photohsop" Blog post.  These are very nice textures and high-quality if you ask me.  So I used the iPhone background and made a wallpaper for him.  Check it out above^ ;)

His blog:
http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/

Thanks Chris for the amazing iPhone wallpaper.  Hope you like the design I came up with for you.

Note: I take no credit for the texture of the wallpaper design, its all Chris Spooner's doing!

And of course Enjoy everyone!

Portfolio Press Free Wordpress Theme!

Portfoliopress

So I have been looking for the right Wordpress theme to post to ProjectDesign for the past half an hour, and I finally found one. This is one I am actually considering for my blog. 

Name: Portfolio Press
Wordpress Version: 2.6+
Fully CSS/xHTML Validated

For more information about the theme visit the link below:
http://www.blogohblog.com/wordpress-theme-portfolio-press/

You can Test Run the theme, and the Download link is all on the link above.

Thanks for the Free Wordpress Theme Blog Oh! Blog!

iSoda

Isoda

iSoda is an application that costs $1.99 US via the App store in your iPod Touch/iPhone.  It's pretty useless, but not in the sense of having a little fun in fooling with your friends and of course from profile pics!  Go out and get it.  If I liked it you will too.  Check the image out, there is the user interface and then just one of the 5 beverages!  The user interface is so realistic and well designed its not even funny.  Including the beverages.  I can tell a pattern though when you look close at the bubbles when you shake the iphone.

http://hottrixdownload.com