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In this showcase we want to share with you a cool kit of typography tools. We tried to focus on really helpful instruments that definitely will help you in working process. You can use them for creating original and expressive designs and other interesting projects. So, enjoy useful typography tools that are really worthy of your attention!

Typographic Marks Unknown – tells us the history of unknown typographic marks.

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Four Ways to Mix Fonts – here are four tips how to combine different fonts.

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Readability – readability is a simple bookmarklet that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable.

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On Choosing Type – here you'll find some rules how to use the type.

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Making Geometric Type Workin – in this article you'll see a wide range of exotic letterforms.

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jQuery is very popular and in high demand among the developers. If you want to make your work easier, you have to learn how to use it. In this showcase we've gathered 5 jQuery tutorials that will familiarize you with new handy techniques. You will learn how to use jQuery to develop web applications, how to add the Ajax support into your web applications and many other useful things. Enjoy this helpful roundup.

jQuery File Tree – you can create a customized, fully-interactive file tree with as little as one line of JavaScript code.

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Lens Flare – this tutorial will help you to make images more interactive.

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De-Constructing Accordion and Hover Effects with jQuery – this video tutorial explains how the hover and accordeon effects on Tim Van Damme’s site can be achieved using jQuery.

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Form Wizard – turn normal forms into a step-by-step wizard making your forms more usable and less daunting to users.

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jQuery and Ajax Best Demos Part-2 – a small list of jQuery and Ajax demos.

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If you want your business be wealthy you have to thing over all details and pay attention to all trifles, even if they do not seem important. Posters always play role as creative message for make successful products or brands. So, with the well-designed poster you will convey the important data to the readers in more effective way than with the ordinary placard. Below, you'll find wholesome tutorials that will teach you how to create a good-looking poster design using some real simple techniques. Let's have a look at them, surely, these manuals will come in handy.

The Making of 3 – A Limited Edition Poster Design – here’s a detailed walkthrough of the design process, showing how the design of “3” was conceptualised as a sketch, constructed in Illustrator and given some digital polishing with a range of final touches in Photoshop.

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Create a Pulsing Poster with a Vinyl Record and Grunge Type – This tutorial explains how to create a vinyl record with blends and opacity masks.

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Designing a Typographic Concept Poster – in this tutorial, the artist takes you through a few steps to show you how he created a poster design.

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Design a Sin City Style Poster – in this tutorial, the artist creates that Sin City effect in Photoshop, but using Illustrator to create the perspectives and text.

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Create a Fun Halloween Vector Poster – This tutorial explains how to create a dark graveyard scene with bats and a glowing moon.

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Photoshop is a great tool to perform your own masterpieces. This versatile graphic editor has all necessary instruments for drawing. If you can't create shapes yourself, don't have the right brush or just need some element in high resolution, Photoshop custom shapes are just what you need. They are really easy to use and edit. You can create your own shapes or can download them from the Internet. In order to save your priceless time we have done this job for you. Below we've gathered 10 different sets of custom shapes. If you are going to use them in your works check terms and conditions set by the author of the shapes.

Horses -horse Photoshop shapes developed in CS2.

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Weathered Flying Bugs – clean acurate outlines of weathered flying bugs (21 shapes).

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Maritime – 27 nautical related shapes.

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Live Trees – 21 shapes of living trees, most of them are modeled after fruit trees (mango, orange, plum, coconut, cherry, and lemon).

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Splats and Drips – 15 custom shapes based on Splat & Drip brushes. Made in Photoshop 7 for your enjoyment.

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Ribbon Collection – an amazing roundup of three simple ribbons.

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Voters Collection – it's just the logos for the Republicans and the Democrats.

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Hero Shapes – 13 hero shapes the author made. Mostly superheroes.

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CD & DVD Logos – CD and DVD Logo custom shapes. DVD-Audio, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, CD, CD-DA, CD-Extended.

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Custom Shape Pack – a useful pack of 45 custom shapes.

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If you need some fresh ideas, look through our fresh showcase of high quality XHTML and CSS templates. These layouts can really help if you need to complete any fast project or to get inspiration.

In the overview below you’ll find 5 fresh and effective XHTML and CSS templates. Hope, using them you'll be successful in your work.

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