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Elusive Icons

Elusive Icons are 271 vector icons specifically developed for Bootstrap, but since they’re collected into a Web font, they will work with custom projects as well. These clean, simple icons cover a wide variety of needs for Web and mobile apps. Use them freely, from http://aristeides.com/elusive-iconfont/

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Find Any Character

PopChar is our favorite character-finding utility, but newcomer Characters ($3) is worth a look. It puts a systemwide menu-bar icon on your Mac, which when clicked shows a scrolling list of available special characters, in sections such as Arrows, Bullets, Currencies, Dingbats, Geometric Shapes, Parentheses, Punctuation and Symbols. You can also type in a character’s [...]

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Free Gutenberg! (And 400 More Fonts!)

MyFonts.com currently offers the typeface Gutenberg A for free. It’s a rendition of the blackletter type used by Johann Gutenberg in his famous 42-line Bible. This is one of 400+ free fonts available to you when you register with them. Get Gutenberg A at www.myfonts.com/search/gutenberg+a/fonts/

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Why Some Fonts “Bold” Unpredictably

Using the “bold” button or keyboard shortcut is certainly safe to do in modern design applications, as long as you know which weight your font is going to “bold” to. In simple two-weight fonts, a “regular” weight becomes “bold.” But in font families that have multiple weights, the “bold” version of a weight is often [...]

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