Here we are bringing you a selection of 30 free, high quality sans serif fonts. Please check out the license for each font – they are all free for personal use, but may not be so for commercial use.

Free High Quality Sans Serif Fonts

Champagne & Limousines

4 Files:

• Regular
• Bold
• Italic
• Bold Italic

Harabara

Caviar Dreams

4 Files:

• Regular
• Bold
• Italic
• Bold Italic

Geo Sans Light

2 Files:

• Light
• Light Oblique

Opificio

2 Files:

• Regular
• Bold

Clemente

18 Files:

• Hairline/Hairline Italic
• Extra Light/Extra Light Italic
• Light/Light Italic
• Book/Book Italic
• Regular/Regular Italic
• SemiBold/SemiBold Italic
• Bold/Bold Italic
• Heavy/Heavy Italic
• UltraBold/UltraBold Italic

Homizio

6 Files:

• Regular
• Thin
• Black
• Bold
• Light
• Medium

American Purpose

There are 10 files supplied in this download – 5 fonts supplied in both True Type and Open Type formats. 3 of the files are top, middle and bottom stripes of the text to create tri-colored text effects.

Passion Sans

29 Files:

• Hairline/Hairline Italic/Hairline SmallCaps
• Light/Light Italic/Light SmallCaps
• Book/Book Italic/Book SmallCaps
• Regular/Regular Italic/Regular SmallCaps
• SemiBold/SemiBold Italic/SemiBold SmallCaps
• Bold/Bold Italic/Bold SmallCaps
• Heavy/Heavy Italic
• ExtraBold/ExtraBold Italic
• Black/Black Italic
• Outline Light/Outline Heavy
• Contour
• Accent Outer/Accent Center

Criticized

Libel Suit

This download provides 2 files – True Type and Open Type format of the regular font.

Savings Bond

Planet Estyle

Euro Caps

Media Gothic

Circula

Probert

Almost Serious

2 Files:

• Regular
• Accent

Reason System

RevoPop

Cerbetica

2 Files:

• Regular
• Bold

Surrounding

2 Files:

• Regular
• Bold

Winterthur Condensed

2 Files:

• Condensed
• Condensed Italic

Piximisa

Walkway

31 files:

• Black/Black RevOblique
• Bold/Bold RevOblique
• Condensed/Condensed Bold/Condensed SemiBold
• Expand/Expand Black/Expand Bold/Expand RevOblique/Expand SemiBold/Expand UltraBold
• Oblique/Oblique Black/Oblique Bold/Oblique Expand/Oblique SemiBold/Oblique UltraBold
• RevOblique
• Rounded
• SemiBold/SemiBold RevOblique
• UtraBold/UltraBold RevOblique
• UltraCondensed/UltraCondensed Bold/UltraCondensed SemiBold
• UltraExpand/UltraExpand Bold/UltraExpand SemiBold

Sansation

6 files:

• Regular
• Italic
• Bold/Bold Italic
• Light/Light Italic

SF Movie Poster

8 files:

• Regular
• Oblique
• Bold/Bold Oblique
• Condensed/Condensed Oblique/Condensed Bold/Condensed Bold Oblique

Rawengulk Sans

Castorgate

6 files:

• Regular
• Distort Regular
• Messed Regular
• Rough Regular
• Upright Regular
• Wide Regular

Jolly

4 files:

• Regular
• Italic
• Bold/Bold Italic

Conclusion

This selection includes fonts that can be used for blocks of text, as well as fonts for headlines or titles.

I hope you found some of these fonts worth downloading and adding to your library.

Please leave any comments or links to other free, high quality sans serif fonts that we may have missed from this list in the section below.

Final Image

As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:

Step 1

Hit Control + N to create a new document. Enter 600 in the width box and 400 in the height box then click on the Advanced button. Select RGB, Screen (72ppi) and make sure that the "Align New Objects to Pixel Grid" box is unchecked before your click OK. Now, turn on the Grid (View > Grid) and the Snap to Grid (View > Snap to Grid). Next, you’ll need a grid every 5px. Go to Edit > Preferences > Guides & Grid, enter 5 in the Gridline every box and 1 in the Subdivisions box. You can also open the Info panel (Window > Info) for a live preview with the size and position of your shapes. Do not forget to set the unit of measurement to pixels from Edit > Preferences > Unit > General. Al these options will significantly increase your work speed.

Step 2

Start with the Ellipse Tool(L). Create a 130px circle, fill it with black, lower its opacity to 30% and make sure that there’s no color set for the stroke. Select this new shape and go to Object > Path > Offset Path. Enter a -35px Offset and click OK. Select the resulting shape and go again to Object > Path > Offset Path. This time enter a -5px Offset and click OK. In the end you should have three concentric circle in your Layers panel (Window > Layers).

Step 3

Pick the Pen Tool(P) and draw a 60px, horizontal path. Select it, add a 1pt, black stroke and place it as shown in the following image. Make sure that this horizontal path is still selected and go to Effect > Distort&Transform > Transform. Enter the data shown below, click OK and go to Object > Expand Appearance.

Step 4

Move to the Layers panel and you will find a new group with the three simple paths created in the previous step. Select it and hit Shift + Control + G twice to get rid of all those groups/subgroups. Now, pick the Pen Tool and focus on the top, horizontal path. Simply click on the left anchor point (to reconnect with the path) and continue drawing a 15px vertical path. Make sure that the Pen Tool(P) is still selected, focus on the two oblique paths and add some extra paths as shown below. The Snap to Grid will ease your work. In the end your three paths should look like in the following image. Select them and make a copy in front (Control + C > Control + F).

Step 5

Select the first two circles created in the second step, open the Pathfinder panel (Window > Pathfinder) and click on the Minus Front button. The resulting compound path should look like in the second image.

Step 6

Reselect the three copies created in the end of the fourth step along with the compound path made in the previous step and click on the Divide button from the Pathfinder panel. Move to the Layers panel and you will find a group with four new shapes. Open it, delete the bottom shape (the one with no color set for fill) then ungroup the remaining three shapes (Shift + Control + G).

Step 7

Next, you need to add some color for the three shapes created in the previous step. Select them on by one and fill them with the gradient shown below. Also, select the remaining circle and fill it with the radial gradient shown in the final image. The white number (70) from the final gradient image stands for location percentage. This means that you need to select that little diamond icon from the gradient slider and set its location at 70%.

Step 8

Focus on the top, right path with the black stroke. Pick the Direct Selection Tool(A), select the two anchor points circled in the first image and hit Control + J to close your path. Select it, remove the color from the stroke and fill it with R=239 G=192 B=29. Reselect the yellow shape edited in the previous step and make a copy in front (Control + C > Control + F). Select this copy along with the other yellow shape created in the beginning of this step and click on the Intersect button from the Pathfinder panel. In the end your shape should look like in the fifth image.

Step 9

Focus on the bottom path with the black stroke. Pick the Direct Selection Tool(A), select the two anchor points circled in the first image and hit Control + J to close your path. Select it, remove the color from the stroke and fill it with R=45 G=165 B=53. Reselect the green shape edited in the seventh step and make a copy in front (Control + C > Control + F). Select this copy along with the other green shape created in the beginning of this step and click on the Intersect button from the Pathfinder panel. In the end your shape should look like in the fifth image.

Step 10

Focus on the remaining path with the black stroke. Pick the Direct Selection Tool(A), select the two anchor points circled in the first image and hit Control + J to close your path. Select it, remove the color from the stroke and fill it with R=208 G=30 B=34. Reselect the red shape edited in the seventh step and make a copy in front (Control + C > Control + F). Select this copy along with the other red shape created in the beginning of this step and click on the Intersect button from the Pathfinder panel. In the end your shape should look like in the fifth image.

Step 11

Disable the Snap to Grid (View > Snap to Grid) then go to Edit > Preferences > General and make sure that the Keyboard Increment is set at 1px. Select all the shapes created so far and duplicate them (Control + C > Control + F). Select these copies and click on the Unite button from the Pathfinder panel. Fill the resulting shapes with white and turn them into a compound path (Object > Compound Path > Make). Select it and make two copies in front (Control + C > Control + F > Control + F). Select the top copy and hit the up arrow once to move it 1px up. Reselect both copies and click on the Minus Front button from the Pathfinder panel. Select the resulting group of shapes and turn it into a compound path (Object > Compound Path > Make). Fill it with black, lower its opacity to 10% and change the blending mode to Multiply.

Step 12

Reselect then white compound path created in the previous step and make two copies in front (Control + C > Control + F > Control + F). Select the top copy and move it 3px up. Reselect both copies and click on the Minus Front button from the Pathfinder panel. Select the resulting group of shapes and turn it into a compound path (Object > Compound Path > Make). Fill it with black, lower its opacity to 5% and change the blending mode to Multiply.

Step 13

Reselect then white compound path and go to Object > Path > Offset Path. Enter a -3px Offset and click OK. Select the resulting shape, make a copy in front and delete the original, white compound path. Select the copy and move it 1px down. Reselect both copies and click on the Minus Front button from the Pathfinder panel. Select the resulting group of shapes and turn it into a compound path (Object > Compound Path > Make). Fill it with the linear gradient shown below, lower its opacity to 50% and change the blending mode to Overlay. Remember that the white numbers from the gradient image stand for location percentage while the yellow zeros stand for opacity percentage.

Step 14

Again, select all the shapes created so far and duplicate them (Control + C > Control + F). Select the copies and click on the Unite button from the Pathfinder panel. Fill the resulting shapes with white and turn them into a compound path (Object > Compound Path > Make). Select it, send it to back (Shift + Control + [ ) and go to Effect > Stylize > Drop Shadow. Enter the data shown below, click OK and you’re done.

And We’re Done!

Here is how your final result should look.

What’s cool about fractals is that they are infinite, and with all the vivid colors and hypontizing shapes, fractal art images can be quite complex but in an impressive way.

In this article, we are going to share with you a collection of 25 stunning hand-picked fractal art images for your inspiration. Hope you’ll like them.

Ophiucus by killythirsk

Shining Through by jim373

On the lotus pond by Fiery-Fire

Narya by lindelokse

Enchanted by lindelokse

Cold Mornings by magnusti78

Copper Bouquet by AmorinaAshton

Cosmic Carnival by Alterren

Fall…. by Gurly

Mobius Wave by SaTaNiA

Wintertime by judazfx

Old People’s Ancient Story by guagapunyaimel

Spring 125 2012 by Kattvinge

Soap Bubbles by AmorinaAshton

Life’s golden edges by Jimpan1973

Orange is the color of joy by schindlabua

Jellyfish thing by NorwegianAngel

Moods of Spring by AmorinaAshton

Close to Midnight by C-91

74G4-Whispering Moons by AmorinaAshton

Nervous Metallic by slobo777

stock b 88 by SparkyStock

Sweet Dreams by Anystasia

AloriahII by Vibratum

Un Soffio Caldo by lindelokse

Conclusion

The different types of fractals give a variety of sophisticated results, but all of them are incredibly beautiful. Hope you enjoyed the article and found it inspirational.

PSD files can help a great deal in design work as they are supplied with all the layers, making them completely editable by the designer.

I am sure all designers at one time or another have used .psd files, and a decent library or reference to high quality, usable files is surely a great bonus.

Highly Usable PSD Files

iPod Classic

iPod Touch

iPad

iPhone 3G

RIM Blackberry

HTC Incredible Smartphone

Zune 30GB

Macbook

Dell Vostro

Windows 8 Tablet

Plasma TV

TV

Sony Playstation 3 Slim

PSP

Kindle

USB Pen Drive

Headphones

Vinyl Record

Cassette

CD and Case

DVD Plastic Case

Olympus Pen Lite E-PL1

Nikon D90

Polaroid Impulse

Magnifa Pro

Globe Resource

Cinema

Filmstrip with Reflection

Polaroid Frames

Map Markers

Colorful Map Tags

World Map Icon

Lined Paper

Layered Spiral Bound Notebook

Curled Notebook

Ripped Paper Notes

Under Construction Page

Under Construction

Twitter and Facebook Connect Buttons

Windows 8 Logo

Conclusion

I hope you have found some of these files worth downloading, or that you think this article is worth bookmarking for future reference.

Please leave any comments or acknowledgments for the art/artists below.

Typography is a big subject these days, whether discussing the font used for blocks of text, the mix of fonts on a website, typographic portraits or artistic type, it is prevalent all around the internet.

Here we have collected 30 outstanding typography posters for your viewing pleasure.

Stunning Typography Posters

Behind the Black Sky

The Year Was 2005

For The Win/FTW

Typography is Tedious

IPS Skylines

Urban Typography

Sylfaen Type Poster

Posters Collection

Helveticaspace

Encontros 2009

Design Culture Now

Wonderland of Type

Typo-graphic Dope

GraphicDesignIs

French20

Go catch some waves!

We Built a Tunnel

Type Art Invert

Inject Knowledge Question Mark

Anno 2010

The Eternal Night

A Bohemian Bazaar – Definition

Futura

Afrika

Typographic Movie Posters

Type Face Posters

A Wilhelm Scream

Chinese 24 Terms

Blue & Yellow

Always judge a book by its cover

Conclusion

Typography is, without doubt, a very creative and imaginative art form. I hope you enjoyed viewing these examples of typography posters. Did we miss any that you have come across? Please leave any comments or links in the section below.

Since then its rate of growth in membership has been astonishing. In late 2010, the site claimed over 85 million members in over 200 countries with members from every Fortune 500 company in the network.

LinkedIn Concept

The concept is simple and will be familiar to anyone who has used social networking sites such as Facebook or Bebo. Once registered as a member, a user can send and accept requests to link up to other members or to invite new members. The advantages in being able to lay out your professional network are still being assessed by many members but one thing is clear, the site offers an unrivalled ability to look beyond your own immediate network and find people with skills, expertise and knowledge that can represent opportunity for you.

To get a benefit from your LinkedIn membership and make your network work for you, there a few basic steps you’ll need to ensure you’ve taken. Firstly, every member has a profile where they can record their work experience and qualifications. When they start, most people are tempted just to record the bare minimum information like their current job and title but if you want to be found in the system as someone who has certain experience or has worked for a particular company, you should consider adding a brief description of as many of your previous roles as possible. Not only does this make you more visible to anyone searching the system, but LinkedIn will now show you lists of other members you may already know based on your previous employers and links you already have. This helps you extend your network to people that you may not have considered when you first started out linking.

You should also look to keep your current description up to date. LinkedIn allows you to amend and constantly update what you’re up to at the moment. It’s not meant as a blow-by-blow account of your actions like Facebook or Twitter, but it will give people an idea of what your main area of interest is from one month to the next.

Qualifications can be a valuable factor in being found on the website and in expanding your network. In a similar fashion to recording your employers, you can pick out the academic institutions you attended and what qualifications you got there. LinkedIn also then lets you look up other alumni of the same college or university to see if you want to link up. This can be a great way or re-establishing old acquaintances and finding out what opportunities there may be out there with them.

If you’re using LinkedIn to try and find new opportunities, it’s helpful to get some recommendations from ex-colleagues. Just like in any job interview situation, these references can prove invaluable. Even if they only serve to help someone decide if they want to make contact or not, they are definitely worth having.

While having your profile up to date will not make you a success, it’s one of the main ways of ensuring that LinkedIn is working for you. You’ll see from the activity on the site that you will have appeared in searches and LinkedIn even tells you who has viewed your profile. To make this information work for you, keep looking to expand your network. When you make contacts in business, look them up on LinkedIn and make the connection. Having connections will ensure you show up their connections list and if you maintain your profile and keep it up to date, you’ll appear in their home page as having made a change. This makes you pop back into their thoughts every now and again when they see your name and you never know when this could the start of a new opportunity.

Lastly, LinkedIn is frequented by a very large and very active recruitment population. Recruitment professionals have woken up very quickly to the power of the networking platform and actively use the information find candidates and undertake research for their markets. If you can link up to the occasional recruiter, you’ll usually find that they have a very large network of their own. Look for recruitment executives in your field of expertise and link up with them. This opens you network to the recruiter, but also you will be able to see much further across the network of people in your field of work than you could before. Recruiters are fast becoming pivotal link points in the LinkedIn network and will usually be more than happy to make a connection with you if your sector is relevant to them.

Conclusion

Like any network, maintaining contact is the key to making it work for you. As a tool, LinkedIn makes this much more achievable across a wider range of contacts then ever before. The website is becoming the professional networking system of choice for many people and if you’re not a member already, you could well be missing out.

Some artists use existing concepts, such as films, TV shows, console games, etc., and some take characters from their own imagination, drawing inspiration from children, pets, fantasy, etc.

Many of today’s cartoons are based on existing films, TV shows, console games, etc., however, some are straight from the artist’s imagination or inspired by a child, a pet, a situation, etc.

Here is a collection of 30 cartoon illustrations created by skilled and imaginative digital artists.

Creative Digital Cartoon Illustrations

Equilibrist

Balto Mika

Giraffe – Cartoon

Goldfish Cartoon Vector

Miffed Dark Elf

Kishi

Lara Air Shooting

Alien Pirate Cyborg Rabbit

Cozy Owl

We’re Getting Better Man!

Fish Composition

How to Train Your Dragon

Cartoon Super Etendard

Roundeye Dragon

Dr. Who Cat aka Dr. Mew

BambinoMonkey Cartoons

Kool Betty Cool

Fishy Sub

Tetris Girl

Frozen Fish Sticks

Don’t Touch My Popcorn

The Monster in my Closet

Have you seen my bear Tibbers?

Tiago Hoisel Axl

Tourist

Frogatto & Friends

Mythbusters

Fantasmagorias

Welcome to the crew Tinkerbel

Cat, the Dog

Conclusion

I hope you have enjoyed viewing these digital cartoon illustrations, and that they have brightened your day.

Which was your favourite? Have you come across any creative cartoon illustrations that we have missed from this list? Please share your opinions and links with us in the comments section below.

In this article, I’ve gathered 25 amazing food logo designs, that vary from simple and clean to more complex and detailed ones. Check them out and get inspired!

1. Fresh by cspainey

2. Seed by DianaPerkins

3. Watermelon by DigitalOrange

4. tomatopoint by voxsix

5. Funky Food and Bakery… by paloseiffe

6. Happy Bites by itsgareth

7. Iby’s Sweeties by szende

8. Cupcake Castle by CrossTheLime

9. glaze v.2 by atomicvibe

10. Ice Cream Love by tl0928

11. TheWingedDon by Type and Signs

12. Lady Olive by Nekiy

13. Olio (olive) by alex4za

14. MailTaco by revotype

15. Sweet Toof Bakery – FINAL by atomicvibe

16. lollipop by mariaximena

17. My Lolipop Moment by ciderpro

18. Pizza Cone – Pizzaria by thiagolins

19. Stroller Pizza by shtef sokolovich

20. Rollolo by Brandserker

21. Salsa del arbol by alvach

22. Lunches by ByDianaPerkins

23. Trophy Spice by nidji29

24. Gran Food by claudiofrancab

25. snex by umbra

Hope you found this post helpful. Please feel free to leave your thoughts and comments below.

Life hacks are productivity tricks. The term originated in the IT (information technology) industry where it was (and still is) used to describe a solution to an everyday computer-related problem. Later the term became popular with bloggers as a way of dealing with information overload and speeding up the workflow. Now there is a virtual plethora of applications available to freelancers to help solve their most common problems. Here is an overview of five productivity increasing applications.

Taskwarrior

Taskwarrior is a time and task management tool, inspired by the “Getting Things Done” philosophy of productivity consultant David Allen. The software is open-source and runs on many different platforms. It is downloadable for free from the Taskwarrior website.

The application allows users to record jobs that need to be done on a to-do list that can be easily manipulated as needed. You can personalize the look of the list by applying a theme of choice. The idea is that when you record jobs, you free your mind of the burden, so you can focus on the task at hand, hence increasing your productivity.

Path.To

Path.To is a free online application for making professional online profiles. Users are asked to enter their name, title, location, and industry, or they can import their details from a Facebook, Google+, or LinkedIn profile. The application was launched in August 2011 and is already popular with professionals from around the world who are looking to increase their visibility.

By adding your unique skill set, other users can help promote you by adding their endorsement. The more activity there is on your profile, the higher you will be placed on the leaderboard. This will distinguish you as a highly skilled professional. The analytical tools available on the website can help you to see who has been viewing your profile and which websites are linking to you. The look of the profile itself is fully customizable with many themes.

Path.to are preparing a new site version right now.

The New Delicious

Delicious has been around since 2003 and has always been a popular online bookmarking service. But the application underwent a radical makeover after being sold to AVOS Systems, a new Internet company led by the founders of YouTube Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, and was consequently relaunched in September 2011 with a completely new interface and added functionality.

The main new feature called “stacks” allows you to organize the best content around a particular subject from across the web and store it all in one place in a visually interesting way. Stacks are basically like YouTube playlists. Only they are made up of weblinks pointing to articles, tutorials, or videos. Stacks can be published and shared, so other Delicious users can see them and subscribe to them. Similarly, browsing through stacks can help you find a collection of high quality links much faster. Freelancers can use Delicious stacks to network and share information with other professionals, building relationships that might prove fruitful in the future. Using Delicious is still free.

TwitDo

Not just another to-do list application, TwitDo integrates with Twitter, so you can make your lists on the go while using the Twitter application. There is no software to download. Just enter #todo followed by the note you want to make, and the item gets added to your list. You can retrieve the list from twitdo.com/yourusername. Similarly, #done will cross an item off your list, and #undo will delete an item.

TwitDo is a simple and easy to use organizational tool for noting down reminders or making a list of important tasks, and it is free! If as a freelancer you are already using Twitter, it is a quick way of getting more out of the existing service.

Sitesimon

Sitesimon is a free web based recommendation site. The name is now pronounced site-simon; although it was originally conceived as sites-I’m-on. After having installed the Sitesimon add-on to a web browser, the application will privately monitor browsing habits and serve personalized high quality content.

The application protects you from information overload while looking for good quality up-to-date content on the Internet. Recommendations are tailored to your specific tastes, and the application can also aggregate content from all the social network sites that you subscribe to. Sitesimon could potentially be a one-stop shop for your all your online information needs. The social element of the site enables you to share your browsing history with other Sitesimon users.

Conclusion

All five applications described above adhere to the meaning of the term “life hack”, according to the entry in the Oxford Online Dictionary: a strategy or technique adopted in order to manage one’s time and daily activities in a more efficient way. Thanks to the altruistic efforts of programmers these applications are available for free, so they won’t eat into the freelancer’s budget.

What is your favorite life hack? Let us know by placing a comment.

You can see ribbons used for navigation menus, as part of the brand logo, as title banners, as date tags and in many more ways.

Some designers have combined the new ribbon trend with other new trends such as using a background image, and some have incorporated ribbons with die-hard trends such as minimalism and grunge.

Here we have collected a selection of website designs incorporating ribbons as many different elements and in many varied styles of design. We have also included in this post some .psd files of web ribbons for free download.

Showcase of Ribbons in Website Design

IconEden

1000 WP Themes

XGraphica

Table No.37

Interlink Dodgeball

St Kilda High Hopes

Jopp Design

Wells Riley

Gavin Wyatt

Rapping Paper

Tvornica Bannera

The Dollar Dreadful

Gisele Jaquenod

Decorama Design

Less Money

Radoor & Co

Letter Learner

Pistachio App

Elevated Imagery

DeployCMS

The Threepenny Editor

Garphee

Aleks Faure

MetinBilgin

Warehouse Twentyone

Royal Birkdale Golf Club

Pixel Design Studio

Transformology

Ruby Bots

Fresh Cookies Online

Free Ribbon .psd Downloads

Retro Web Ribbons Vintage Psd Pack

Ribbons Pack Free psd

Ribbon Header PSD

Pretty Little Folded Ribbon

Psd Ribbon Classic Set

Fancy Ribbon

Textured Banner

Greene Pack

Web Corner Ribbon PSD Set

Elegant Ribbon Menu

Conclusion

I hope you have been inspired by the website designs featured in this showcase, and that you can use some of the free .psd files in your future projects.

Please leave any comments in the section below.