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Designs doesn’t have to be clean and beautiful all the time – it is just to boring don’t you think? In some cases rough and hard or old and worn out look fits the purpuse or the target group better and then Grunge style Fonts comes in really handy. Grunge Fonts can probably mean different things to different people but really Grunge means dirt (besides being a really interesting music style from the 90’s) and that is just what Grunge Fonts is all about. Good Grunge Fonts are normally wrecked, cut in pieces, hammered etc. and they just look like time and weather have worn them out.

Besides providing a list of some of the best Grunge Fonts available for free this article also showcase some of the fonts and gives examples of how they can be used. This is pure inspiration ans a source of ideas if you’re looking for that as well. As allways check the license carefully for any free font you’re planning to use. Lets get started.

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For quite some time companies and governments have been working hard to make daily life things available as digital services in whatever way possible. At the same time most communication is handled digitally by sending emails or chatting. Sending a good old snail mail letter is still possible but not that popular really. Some people send real paper post cards when they are on vacation but as more and more handheld gadgets and hotels with Internet allow us to be online even on vacation we either tend to blog or stick to digital communication these days. The advantages that computers give us is obvious but the complete turnaround that have happened over just a few years makes real life stuff like fx. hand written text catch most peoples attention (even though it is presented on a computer screen). Hand writing is something we all know very well and have been working hard to learn in school, it may bring up emotions, memories, images that a plain verdana or times roman can’t compete with. While hand written fonts may be very useful to achieve certain design goals they are not to be applied in any case. Long text and difficult to read text are examples where hand written fonts may be painful for the reader. For headers and short notes hand written fonts may be very useful.

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Art, design web portfolio networks are great sources for inspiration and in some cases for finding free high quality design elements that can be used for many creative purposes. These websites are also very good for the designers as they get unique possibilities to reach a very large audince – true win / win situation. In this article tripwire magazine provides a list of some of the best online portfolio solution and a short description of the features they offer. Please leave a comment if I have missed an important player in this field!

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The importance of typography in design can’t be underestimated, said that before I guess. Typography is a key element of design and communicating a message and in some cases designers use typography in a way that makes it support the overall design or in some case becomes the design itself. In this article a large number of inspiring and beautiful Typographic designs have been put together for you. Hope you enjoy it!

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Personal blogging is still very popular and the variation of blogs apearing online is really high. Some blog main about their family while others focus in interest or maybe vacations they have been on. Even though a blog is personal and non pro, it should look good and have all the features available to other premium themes. This is in my opinion just what Woothemes offer now.

myweblog is personal blog in the same vein as our most popular themes – Busy Bee & Fresh News. The style is modern and funky, whilst the colour-coded categories are sure to provide you with a little bit of extra fun when crafting that next blog post!

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Photoshop is simply brilliant for creating Stunning Effects from simple elements and for fixing Photos that got the right scene but isn’t ok fx. in the light or color balance. In the hands of someone who knows how to control Photoshop it is able to do some really cool tricks but it isn’t easy at all for beginners. I find large compilations of Tutorials for Photoshop a great resource for inspiration and learning and I hope this article will be a good help for everyone including people new to Photoshop trying to do some photo magic for the first time.

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I’m a great fan of Joomla that is for sure. It is a great CMS, it’s all free and the community supporting it with themes, modules etc. is incredible. When setting up a new site based on Joomla one of the first things most people search for is a Theme that looks good and provides the features needed. This article provides a list of free Joomla themes mainly created by premuim Theme Designers that you cant effort to miss.

tripwire magazine previously provided huge lists of free Joomla themes and you should read through these if you don’t find what you need in this article ( 40+ free high-quality Joomla themes and 30+ free but quite professional Joomla Themes).

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Zenko Magazine is the second theme released by WPZOOM and it has just been released!

It is a simple but colorful Magazine-Style Premium Theme created for any type of informative websites such as a complex News Portal, or simply informative blog. Zenko Magazine have features worth investigating further. For example it provides a function that automatically pulls images from the articles to be used in article lists. This replace the need for creating custom properties to link up images. The Theme further features an custom options page, ads management system, support for Google Analytics and Feedburner etc.

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In this article you will find a collection of Logos that can be inspiring to investigate because they either belong to very successful companies and have been created by talented designers or because they just feature good ideas and communicate messages you may not see directly.

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Recently Woothemes released a new Premium Wordpress Theme called Aperture.

Aperture is a multi-functional photo-blogging theme with a non-blog home page, consisting of a latest posts slider, a visual category display, a blog module and areas of stylish widgetized spaces. With 12 alternate styles and a visual archive system you should be able to house your photos/portfolio.

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