Visual+Resources+-+Color+&+Font

//A loose collection of resources that connect in some way to the analysis and production of visual communication...//

Journals & Bibliographies
Rebecca Moore Howard | excellent listing of visual rhetoric sources International Visual Literacy Association | site for the organization that publishes the //Journal of Visual Literacy// The Periodic Table of Visualization| interesting classification of different visual systems Viz | a visual rhetoric and visual culture portal from the University of Texas Margaret Zulick | visual rhetoric sources more from the art and communication studies side of things VCQ | //Visual Communication Quarterly// Journal of Visual Culture | a SAGE publication that began in 2002 Visual Communication | SAGE scholarly journal on visual studies in image, graphic design, typography, and more Kairos | a journal of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy that often touches on the visual

Fonts & Typography
What the Font? | Having trouble identifying a font? Upload the mysterious font to this site Abstract Fonts | Over 13,000 free fonts. Dafont | huge collection of easily-searchable free fonts (various licenses available as well FONTSPACE| 23,000 free fonts, about 9,000 of which are commercially licensed 1001 Free Fonts| a wide variety of searchable fonts (similar to Dafont) Google Fonts| more than 500 free, web-optimized fonts from Google Font Squirrel| an excellent source of fonts, especially for digital works [|Download Free Fonts]| thousands of free fonts fontgarden| more than 10,000 free fonts Open Font Library| free fonts, many of which are older and now public domain Urban Fonts| free fonts and dingbats (you can get 500 in one download if you sign up for their newsletter Freewarefonts| huge (and well organized) collection of free fonts FontsO good collection of online fonts, very simple to browse exjlibris| a small collection done by a designer that ranges from completely free, partially free, and paid Lost Type Co-Op | a small collection of high-quality, unique, and free fonts Font Shop | Between the site's content tester, which allows you to see what your work is going to look like, and the related fonts tab that shows you other typefaces you might be interested in, FontShop has it all covered. Fonts In Use | Fonts in Use is a great resource for type identification and research. The site takes images and identifies the typefaces used. Typeophile | a useful font identification site Texturous | Tumblr-based masterpost for font ideas and families with links. Handwriting font creator | Create a font with your handwriting Adobe Typekit | __Paid__ service to download fonts from Adobe

Color & Graphic Design
Palette Generator | automatically creates a palette from a photograph What's Its Color? | figures out the dominant color and suggests a palette from any photograph Colour Lovers | browse thousands of palettes and create your own for instant feedback Worqx | an introduction to color theory The Color Schemer | a quick color tutorial Design Theory | overview of design principles, including gestalt theory ColorZilla | a Firefox add-on that allows users to figure out the color codes of anything on a webpage HTML Color Codes | a great site for getting the hexadecimal numbers of colors Color Combos | paste the URL of any website into this site to extract all the colors Kuler| Adobe site that allows users to generate and test color palettes Web Colour Data| a way to view and compare the extracted colors of particular websites in visual strips Color THeory for Designers | an excellent intro with lots of examples from Cameron Chapman of //Smashing Magazine// (follow the links at the bottom for two more parts to her work) Automatic Image Generator | this site arranges your images into a new image; interesting to compare a "non-designed" image to a designed one for visual rhetoric purposes Design Seeds | Site lets user search for color palettes using color value and themes (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer, etc). Color Palette Generator | generates a palette if you upload a photograph Skillshare | a website with video tutorials Design Encyclopedia | an extensive online resource for reference material about design. Whether you're looking for modern inspiration, applications, or historical information on the people behind iconic designs, The Design Encyclopedia is your bible [|colorsontheweb] |this tool works on the single-color-in, palette-out basis Instant Eyedropper | Identifies the color of any selected photo BrandColors | Official Color Codes for the World's Biggest Brands