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Every now and then we look around, select fresh high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and find them so that you don’t have to.

In this selection, we’re pleased to present Piron, Nobile, St Marie, Code, Arcus, Crimson Text, Quadranta, Juice, Prociono, Mr Jones, Ibarra Real and various useful symbol fonts. Please note that some fonts are for personal use only and are clearly marked as such. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the fonts; they can change from time to time.

[Offtopic: by the way, did you already get your copy of the Smashing Book?]

New Free High-Quality Fonts

Piron
Piron is a highly legible typeface, very well suited to any display or text usage: Web, print (especially magazines), brochures, logos, posters, flyers, motion graphics. The font comes in two weights: regular and oblique. Designed by Alexander Nedelev and Veronika Slavova. Available for free and commercial use, and available in OpenType format.

St Ryde Regular (Registration required, PDF Specimen)
St Ryde is a sans-serif, very casual typeface, that works perfect in your bodycopy within the regular weights. The whole family comes in 5 weights including the matching italics, so you can choose from thin, light, regular, medium and bold. Regular is available for free download. St Ryde has a wide range of characters, including small caps, lining, proportional and tabular figures plus small caps figures, too. Designed by Sascha Timplan. Available in OpenType format.

Nobile
The font is designed to work on digital screens and handheld devices without losing the distinctive look usually found in fonts designed for print. The aim here was to design a font that would function well, have good legibility on screen yet also look good — not only at larger display sizes but also right down to small text sizes. The font is available in the Google Font Directory and was released under the Open Font License. The family comes in four weights (regular, italic, bold and bold italic).

Mr Jones Book and Mr Jones Book Italic (Registration required)
Mr Jones was originally conceived as a family for print design, consisting of a sans and a headline. The lowercase forms are wide for legibility at small sizes, while the caps are narrower to save space and keep an even balance of negative space when used in body copy. The overall widths of certain characters have been adjusted to almost extremes to keep an even balance of white space around each letter. The font works well in body copy but will need decreased tracking in larger settings. It comes with proportional, old-style and tabular figures and discretionary ligatures.

Pigiarniq Inuktitut (Download link)
An oldie but a goodie. Heard of Nunavut? A small territory in Canada with one of the lowest population rates of the world? Probably not. Only 0.01 people live there per square kilometer, mostly Inuit. The citizens of Nunavut speak four languages: French, English, Innuinaqtun and Inuktitut. A few years ago, the government of the region decided to design a new typeface to enable its 28,000 citizens to use all four languages in a uniform manner. The result was a beautiful, rich and professional free sans-serif. The family includes bold, heavy, italic, light and regular weights, all available for free use.

St Marie
St Marie is a rich type family designed for online applications and print. This release is a preview of the upcoming family, and the designer has released two weights (St Marie Thin and St Marie Thin Web) for free. The download package contains the weights in the formats OTF, WOFF, EOT and SVG, as well as a @font-face kit. See this example of St Marie Thin Web (HTML-page).

Code: Free Font
This sturdy yet playful little font family can be applied to different kinds of graphic design work: Web, print, motion graphics, t-shirts, posters, logotypes. The font contains 192 characters and two weights (regular and bold) and is available in OTF for PC or Mac.

VAL Stencil
A quite distinctive, memorable font with two variations: lowercase letters bend to the left and uppercase letters bend to the right. This unique font will give your headlines originality and dynamism. Designed by Svetoslav Simov of Fontfabric, available in OTF.

akaDora (For personal use only)
akaDora is a fairly simple script font with wide character support. Designed by James Daniel Milligan.

Arcus and Arcus Italic (Registration required)
Arcus is a geometrically constructed font with rounded curves. The font contains a wide range of alternative signs, small capitals, lining and old-style numerals, fractions, superiors, inferiors, ligatures and discretionary ligatures; all this is within the frame of OpenType functions. The type family was designed for headlines, logotypes and corporate identities, and it is not a good fit for long text. Available for free and commercial use.

Crimson Text
Open that old tome from the bookshelf over the fireplace, stick your nose in its pages and smell the ink, the glue and the immortality of the printed words. That is what Crimson Text is meant to be like. The font is released under the Open Font License.

Acid (Free for personal use only)
Acid was designed by Stephan Baum specifically to be used in logotypes and body copy. The form of glyphs is similar to the design classic B42 by Marcel Breuer (Bauhaus) and has a very geometric character. The font contains 103 glyphs, comes in six weights (regular, regular italic, medium, medium italic, bold and bold italic) and is in the process of being developed. Released under Creative Commons.

Real Origami (Free for personal use only) (PDF specimen)
The designers based this font on an origami alphabet by Japanese artist Taichiro Hasegawa. A very original, distinctive and playful font.

Quadranta
According to its creator, this design was started with quadrant arcs. Quadranta is a display font that would fit logo designs and playful headlines. Available for personal and commercial use. Designed by Darim Kim.

Balonez Fantasia
Yet another distinctive, playful font with rounded glyphs. This would be great fit for brochures, magazine and t-shirts. Designed by Thiago Calza. Freely available for personal and commercial work. Available are two weights in TrueType.

Juice
Juice is a modern, dynamic sans-serif type family. The font contains six weights (light, light italic, regular, italic, bold and bold italic), each containing 161 glyphs. The font is available in TrueType format. Designed by Dhany Arliyanti.

Geomancy Typeface (Free for personal use only)
Geomancy is a chunky, retro geometric font that hearkens to French and American art deco. With some letterforms taken directly from posters and ephemera of the period, the all-uppercase set comes with many alternates and ligatures, so you can give a little of that varied, hand-painted feel to your work. Available in two weights: hairline and extra bold.

Prociono
Prociono is an Esperanto word meaning either the star Procyon or the animal species known as the raccoon. It is a roman typeface with blackletter elements. The release includes both OTF and TTF. Source files are available as well.

Edelsans (Free for personal use only)
Edelsans was designed as a noble geometric font for the screen, with few corners and mostly rounded glyphs. The typeface is not completely finished but is free for non-commercial use.

Neu Eichmass
Neu Eichmass (German for New Etalon) is a typeface based on the weight 100 grams. The name is a reference to International Prototype kilogram, as a base unit of mass in the International System of Units. The typeface has a modern, cold, measured feel to it, reflecting its origin (its metal “parents”). It is a sans-serif font and takes inspiration from famous grotesques and stenciled types associated with marketplaces and street traders. Further inspiration comes from 1920s and ’30s constructivism. The font can be easily stenciled and is appropriate for different uses (street art, retail, independent shops, street markets). It comes in a headline font and a medium point body text suitable for print. Designed by Ivan Khmelevsky.

Ingleby Font
A beautiful, carefully crafted serif font, with signs of the fine antiqua tradition. Designed by David Engelby, the font comes in four weights: regular, italic, bold and bold italic.

Ibarra Real
Ibarra Real is a public domain font of Ibero-American character. Created in 2005, Ibarra Real is an elegant design, mixing tradition and modernity; a genuine badge of the particular Spanish culture that was created by Joaquín Ibarra in 1780. Available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Notice 1: Packaging Symbols (Download)
A symbols font with various weather, packaging and usage symbols.

Notice 2: Navigation symbols (Download)
Yet another symbols font, this one containing symbols for public transit, car and flight navigation.

Notice 3: Cloth Symbols (Download)
This symbols font contains pictograms for the clothing industry. The font is available in OpenType and was designed by the Russian studio Otlab.

Glyphyx (Registration required)
This set of two free fonts features symbols and icons for use in data visualization. Glyphyx One includes symbols related to transportation, while Glyphyx Two has symbols related to leisure activities. Available in OpenType and TrueType formats for Windows and Mac.

Free Symbol Signs Collection
Here is a collection of 50 common symbols for signage, professional designed. The symbols are free for use and are available in OpenType format. All were designed by Sander Baumann, set to the proportions of a regular typeface, so you no longer need to copy and paste such icons into your designs.

Rally Character Set (Specimen | Preview | Download)
Lukyan Turetsky released this character set of car rally symbols. The font contains standard signs of control in rallies, rally-related infographic icons, blanks for logos and other graphics, symbols for legends and other symbols and marks. In OpenType and available for free.

Oblik Serif Bold (Registration required)
Oblik Serif Bold is a sophisticated contemporary font with vivid and playful glyphs. The font could be a great fit for headlines and posters but is hardly usable for long body text. The font has wide character support and is available for free and commercial use. Comes in OpenType format.

Paranoid
Paranoid is a yet another experimental font, collaboratively designed by Simon Carrasco, John Stuart and Kevin Yeun Kit Lo. Paranoid is a purely geometric display face, conceived as a contribution to (and subtle critique of) the still growing trend of bold, geometric and counterless typography. It is equally suited to bringing back the joy of ’80s dance parties or expressing the ominous foreboding of inevitable nuclear disaster. A flexible face in spite of its limited form. Please contact the designers before using this font commercially.

01.BASE
This free font is bold and experimental. It would come handy for bold statements on t-shirts and posters. The font was designed by Fabian De Lange and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license.

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Typedia
Typedia is a community website dedicated to classifying typefaces and educating people about typefaces. Think of it as a cross between IMDB and Wikipedia, except for type. Anyone can join, add or edit pages for typefaces and the people behind them.

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Compared to other platforms, Android does not rely on a proprietary OS that restricts the use of third-party applications (off-topic: US regulators have recently announced it was lawful to hack or jailbreak an iPhone), it is an open-source and level alternative. And this reflects in its now huge development community, were everything, from samples, tutorials, GUI downloads… all seem to be freely offered. It is on that theme in which this article focuses. We have selected our favorite 20 free to use, some open-source, tools, resources, guides and downloads that will hopefully help you with your next Android app.

Free Android Developer Ebook: andbook!

If you are just stepping into Android Development for the first time this free ebook is perfect for you. It is a 62 page PDF ebook choc-full of easy to follow tutorials that shows you how to start coding an Android app without having any Android-dev knowledge whatsoever.
Free Android Developer Ebook: andbook! →

Free Android Developer Ebook: Professional Android Application Development

The Professional Android Application Development PDF ebook is a hands-on guide to building mobile applications, this book features concise and compelling examples that show you how
to quickly construct real-world mobile applications for Android phones. It covers all the essential features, and explores the advanced capabilities of Android.
Free Android Developer Ebook: Professional Android Application Development →

Free & Open-Source Sample Applications

apps-for-android (Open Source Applications) →
This is a popular collection of useful, open source applications that demonstrate the features of the Android.

List of Sample Android Apps →
The list on this page offers a summary of the sample applications that are available with the Android SDK. Using the links on this page, you can view the source files of the sample applications in your browser. You can also download the source of these samples into your SDK, then modify and reuse it as you need.

Android Cookbook (Examples in Cookbook Form) →
This is a collection of several useful Android examples in cookbook form that you can re-use and play with.

OpenIntents →
OpenIntents design and implement open intents and interfaces to make Android mobile applications work more closely together. They freely offer prefessional and complex sample applications to demonstrate their usage.

Android Snippets (Share Useful Snippets of Source Code) →
Android Snippets is a repository of useful code-snippets for android, to share good and reusable code; thus not having to reinvent the wheel if not necessary.

Android on Windows

For those of you who want to test drive Android you can use this emulator, which is patched to run on a Windows PC as a standalone app, without having to download and install the complete and complex Android SDK. You can even install and test Android compatible apps on it.
Android Emulator on Windows →

Android Emulator from The Developer’s Guide

The Android SDK includes a mobile device emulator which mimics all of the hardware and software features of a typical mobile device (although, without the calls). It provides a variety of navigation and control keys, which you can "press" using your mouse or keyboard to generate events for your application. It also provides a screen in which your application is displayed, together with any other Android applications running.
Android Emulator from The Developer’s Guide →

SensorSimulator

Sensor simulator is a java standalone application that simulates sensor data and transmits them to the Android emulator. It will allow you to simulate sensor data from accerelometer, compass, and orientation sensors and the data can then be used in an Android application, to steer them live through the sensors.
SensorSimulator →

DroidEx: Projecting Android on the Big(ger) Screen

DroidEx displays a copy of your attached Android device's screen on your own development machine's screen. Mostly, this is useful for presentations, as you can attach an Android device to a notebook attached to a projector, and your audience can see what is on the device. In particular, this is good for demonstrations of things that cannot readily be demonstrated via the emulator, such as GPS access or the accelerometer.
DroidEx: Projecting Android on the Big(ger) Screen →

App Inventor for Android

The App Inventor for Android is a new tool from Google that allows non-developers to create there own app very, very easily. You can have a look at this video for an overview of all of its features.
App Inventor for Android →

Common Tasks and How to Do Them in Android

This is a collection of some of the most common tasks you will come across with Android development, and offers quick and to the point — how-to's to help you on your way.
Common Tasks and How to Do Them in Android

Fastboot Cheat Sheet

The Fastboot Cheat Sheet is a very useful and quick list of some common tasks in fastboot.
Fastboot Cheat Sheet →

User Interface Guidelines

Here you will find links to the official articles, from the The Developer's Guide, that describe the Android UI developing guidelines for the interaction and visual design of Android applications.

Icon Design Guidelines →
The Icon Guidelines describe each kind of icon in detail, with specifications for the size, color, shading, and other details for making all your icons fit in the Android system. You can download the Icon Templates Pack, which is an archive of Photoshop and Illustrator templates and filters that make it much simpler to create conforming icons.
Download the Android Icon Templates Pack »

Widget Design Guidelines →
These design guidelines describe how to design widgets that fit with others on the Home screen. They include links to graphics files and templates that will make your designer's life easier.

Activity and Task Design Guidelines →
These guidelines describe how activities work, illustrates them with examples, and describes important underlying principles and mechanisms, such as multitasking, activity reuse, intents, the activity stack, and tasks. It covers this all from a high-level design perspective.

Menu Design Guidelines →
These guidelines describe the difference between Options and Context menus, how to arrange menu items, when to put commands on-screen, and other details about menu design.

Understanding User Interface in Android via mobiforge.com
In this four part article, from mobiforge.com, you are walked through the various elements that make up the UI of an Android application. In the first part of the article, it discusses the various layouts available in Android to position the various widgets on your screen.
Understanding User Interface in Android – Part 1 →
Understanding User Interface in Android – Part 2 →
Understanding User Interface in Android – Part 3 →
Understanding User Interface in Android – Part 4 →

Android UI Patterns

Android UI Patterns →

DroidDraw : Graphical User Interface Editor for Android

DroidDraw is a User Interface (UI) designer/editor that can be used to build GUIs for Android. It is standalone executable, and its available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
DroidDraw : Graphical User Interface Editor for Android →

Android GUI PSD Vector Kit

The Android GUI Starter Kit comes with several button elements as well as different interface options for Android GUI. is based on elements of Android 1.5 GUI and has been made to help the open-source community with Android applications mock-ups. Most of the elements and phone illustration are made in vector path so they are easily resizable. For text Android Sans was used.
Android GUI PSD Vector Kit →

Fireworks Template for Android

In this Fireworks template the Android user interface elements have been redrawn as vector images. In the folders the elements have been mostly labeled according to the Android vocabulary.
Fireworks Template for Android →

Android Wireframe Templates

The wireframe PDF is Letter size (8.5 inches by 11 inches) and the handsets are all to scale, so you can use these quite easily for paper prototyping and getting a realistic sense of scale. There's a subtle 10×10 grid on the screens to help you with your pencil based needs. If you're short on Letter paper, you can get away with printing them on A4.
Android Wireframe Templates →

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How cute is that? This is right up there with mini-Mega Man, Chun Lil’ and, shit, even that six-pound horse. I don’t care if you’re the gotdamn Grinch, you’ve gotta admit this makes your heart at least a half-size bigger. Now put those antlers back on your dog and steal me some presents!

Mini Leia & R2D2 IRL [buzzfeed]

Thanks to Marky Mark, who has apparently ditched the Funky Bunch. And to David B., who’s gonna try to replace them. Remember, David: funky fresh, that’s the key.

Review By: Gren

Year: 2008

Developer: EA Digital Illusions CE

Publisher: Electronic Arts

Platforms: Xbox 360, PS3, PC

Degree of Cyberpunk Visuals: High

Correlation to Cyberpunk Themes: Medium

Mirrors Edge was one of those games I was psyched about for months. I hung on every second of the hauntingly beautiful trailers, did my best to chisel out every little detail I could about the games stirring theme: A lone girl named Faith (who happens to be a Parkour expert) attempting to live free in a society ruled by a psychotic surveillance state.

The product they ultimately delivered possessed all of these qualities in theory, but the theme was more or less ignored in favor of a simplified plot involving a kidnapping by the government, a thinly veiled conspiracy, and a daring rescue. It was about when I was sneaking into the office of a pro wrestler turned ‘goon in a suit’ named “Rope Burn” to interrogate him that I realized the game was getting a little bit off message. Also, the game sometimes seems like it’s trying to convey some sort of political message, but apparently it keeps getting confused on which message it’s trying to send. On one hand, the cuddly nanny state which takes the place of the games thematic antagonist is typically a perversion of an overly liberal society (”you don’t need guns, we’ll keep you perfectly safe, there’s cameras everywhere, self defense is so last century”). Yet halfway through the game your apparent enemy becomes a cartoonishly evil Private Military Corporation (which is why it scores “Medium” on the theme rating instead of “Low”), which is a theoretical scenario associated with an overly de-regulated or libertarian society. It’s also entirely possible that this mash up is entirely apolitical, but the theme seems to be at odds with itself in this regard.

There’s a lot of cyberpunk fluff padding out the games plot, such as hideouts bristling with computers constantly monitoring the city’s surveillance grids and police patrols, the members of the protagonist’s organization all have these cool circuitry tattoos denoting some sort of ‘hacker status’, but it rarely has anything at all to do with the game itself. Also, because the cutscenes are delivered in a trashy 2d flash animation style, it removes these elements even further from the experience.

However, the visuals of the game itself warrant a mention. When you’re standing on the edge of a sky scraper, over looking an endless white city sprouting from the earth like fragments of polished bone, speckled with only sporadic blotches of color (usually propaganda billboards), watching cars drift silently up and down the thoroughfares like drone insects, you’ll feel for a moment that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

You can find plenty of reviews that will explain the particulars of gameplay and story in gratuitous detail, but for the purpose of this site, suffice to say the gameplay is fair and with an emphasis on movement rather than combat (though combat certainly exists and is seldom optional).

In closing, Mirrors Edge is still an enjoyable game, even with the afformentioned detractors from the plot and theme. It’s extremely linear and has no significant multiplayer to speak of, so replay is limited. It’s definitely not a game for everyone, and some folks will tire of it exponentially faster than others. If you can forgive it’s short comings, though, somewhere in the midst of a forty foot jump between buildings, with the streets below passing like a dizzy dream and the birds scattering in anticipation of your landing, you might find the feeling the game is trying to convey.

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The UW Design Show 2010 is an event showcasing the work of the graduating BFA, BA, and MFA students in the University of Washington Design department. As part of this event students also showed works from the  Information Design class. So, today’s Infographics Roundup is a collection of the presented visualizations.

See all of the posters and some nice nice detail views on the UW Design Show 2010 site.

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