Archive for April 2011
Good Reads
A quick roundup of articles on writing, content and branding.
Writing
Judy Dunn’s The Myth of Fairy Dust: One Reason I Never Get Blogger’s Block
“Let me just share one insanely simple reason I don’t get blogger’s block.
I read.”
Content
5by5 ’s podcast Content Talks with Kristina Halvorson
Weekly “talks with special guests about content strategy, intelligent and persuasive content, IA, microcopy, and more.”
Branding
Hivelogic’s Why Your Avatar Matters
“One way you can stand out, especially on sites like Twitter, is to have a great avatar. A great avatar will help people remember you instantly.”
To get your avatar set up, go to Gravatar
How to find your good reads
Mashable’s 10 Ways to Find Blogs You’ll Love
What are you reading this week?
Portrait of a Lady
Libby
Lovely Dingbats for Girly Girls
Dingbats are the flourishes in typographic design. In traditional typesetting they were used to fancy up type-heavy pages, spice up titles and separate sections of text.
You’ve probably used the most common dingbat fonts, like Wingdings, Webdings, or Zapf Dingbats to add bullet points or check boxes to presentations or papers.
These are fine for serious business communication, but sometimes your audience is a bit more girly.
The following fonts offer sets of dingbats with bits of flowery, swirly fun for use in marketing pieces that need to speak to a feminine audience.
They are free for commercial use via FontSquirrel.
Go check out the full character set for these lovely dingbat fonts: Aierbazzi, Floralia, Nymphette, Kalocsai Flowers.
Post below to let me know how you’ve used these fonts to add some girly spark to your marketing materials.