Typography is one of the most important components that make a design complete. This aspect of your design can effectively engage users when used properly. It can also help you enhance the visual appearance of your website, print/graphic designs, and more.

Here we have 15 Free and Useful Typography Tools for Web Designers that’ll help you in a variety of ways. Alright, now lets begin exploring these tools.

FontStructor

FontStuctor is an easy to use free web-based typography tool that allows you to create your own fonts. It has a beautiful interface that is simple to interact with.

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PHP has grown to become one of the most wide-spread server-side scripting language that’s used on a daily basis in a variety of ways. For the most part, almost every developer that’s introduced to this programming language uses it and becomes fond of it at some point. With the support of a very large community, this incredibly fast technology is taking over other server-side scripting languages. If you conduct a quick search on the subject you’ll find countless ready-to-use scripts and a fist-full of quality frameworks.

Here you can see we’ve complied 25 Excellent PHP Tools That Will Enhance The Way You Develop in detail. Take a look at a few of these tools, assess which ones address your needs, and take advantage of them. After all, they’re there for us to use.

PHP_Debug

PHP_Debug is very useful open-source tool that allows you to output processing times of your PHP and SQL, check the performance of specific code blocks and get variable dumps in graphical form.

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Every designer needs access to the best, but let’s face it, the best is often too expensive. If you’re a beginner web developer, you can’t start out with a paid version of the next big creative suite or development software — you need something that’s affordable, manageable and accessible. So, instead of shelling out some serious cash for the next big Adobe Creative Suite, take a look at these free options and build your software workspace the cheap way.

Note: Not all of these programs are 100% open source, but they are all free. The vast majority are licensed under GPL, which is approved as an Open Source license, but every now and then a free but closed source program will show up. They’re not all design and development, either — there’s everything from audio mixing to FTP to publishing software here.

Imaging and Graphics:

Paid: Adobe Photoshop
Free: GIMP (with GIMPShop)

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Adobe released details this week about Creative Suite 4, its first update to the impressive lineup of design and editing tools since Adobe CS3 launched about 17 months ago. In no particular order, here are some articles from around the blogosphere. Continue Reading