Everyone who does logo design knows how hard it is to find the right font. Mainly if you have 100s or 1000s of fonts in your library it may take hours to find the ONE – speaking from my own experience. After certain time period I figured there are fonts I was using over and over. Seems they were perfect for logo design. Because of that, I put together a collection of 20 from my point of view ideal free fonts for our purpose. I am not saying they will be perfect for each single logo, but I am sure they will save you plenty of time . Download and enjoy!

1. Wanda Bold

Created: 2007-12-15; Revision: 1; Glyph count: 252; Units per Em: 1000; Embedding rights: Embedding for preview & printing allowed

2. LLCooper

Created: 2009-10-22; Revision: 1; Glyph count: 180; Units per Em: 2047; Embedding rights: Embedding for permanent installation

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EZ-CSS is a light (1kb), flexible, browser-friendly and easy to use CSS Framework. It works by forcing the final element in the HTML flow to become a block formatting context. EZ-CSS is an easy 4-step process: Insert, Copy, Paste, Edit. This framework lets you create multiple columns of any width, with or without gutters of any width. The small stylesheet can be integrated into any existing style sheet (or in a style element) which makes this solution “framework agnostic”.

EZ-CSS relies on very light HTML markup and CSS rules, but its developers pushed the envelope even further for those who need fast results without increasing the risk of breakage. Their “Quick & Dirty” solution is less semantic than the regular method, but it relies on fewer hooks in the markup, fewer rules in the style sheet and at the same time creates a width-less block formatting context without the caveats that come with using DIVs.

Gesturecons is sharing a set of high-resolution multi-touch vector icons created to aid in the design, development, implementation and promotion of multi-touch interfaces. You can use these icons in the creation of wire-frame documents, digital help files and printed documentation. You can also use Gesturecons inside of your applications in order to demonstrate to users how to complete actions or prompt them to interact with an application when they approach it.

Swap out symbols to create your own icons, because these are scalable vector shapes, you can scale them to any size and alter them in any way you wish. Use your favorite vector graphics application to edit.

There are 2 sets available: a main set and a mobile set.

Famspam is sharing Facebox, a Facebook-style Lightbox useful to display images, DIVs, or entire remote pages using AJAX. The download package comes with the JavaScript and CSS files, a loading image, a close label, four corners, and solid border images.

Implementation Example

1) Load Dependencies – First, you need to load jQuery before Facebox.

<script src="jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="facebox.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<script src="facebox.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

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jQuery Blinds is a simple, effective, and customizable slideshow plugin shared by Little Web Things. It is very easy to install. You just have to put the list (UL) with the images (each LI containg the IMG tag with the right SRC attribute) inside a main class (.slideshow) then call the plugin:

HTML Code

<div class="slideshow">
   <ul>
      <li><img src="lemons/1.jpg" alt="lemon" /></li>
      <li><img src="lemons/2.jpg" alt="lemon tea" /></li>
      <li><img src="lemons/3.jpg" alt="splashing lemon" /></li>
      <li><img src="lemons/4.jpg" alt="salad with lemon" /></li>
      <li><img src="lemons/5.jpg" alt="lemonade!" /></li>
      <li><img src="lemons/6.jpg" alt="sliced lemon" /></li>
      <li><img src="lemons/7.jpg" alt="dripping lemon" /></li>
   </ul>
</div>

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Update: This post is outdated and the offer is no longer available. However, you can visit the Flabell website to get all sort of Flash Components.

Today, on the 6th of March, Flabell celebrates 1 Year! It has been a great year for them and they have prepared a nice bundle pack, which will be up for 10 days.

The Birthday Bundle Pack consists of 26 Flash Components (all the commercial stuff they are selling) at $317 $47! Holy cow! That’s 85% less.

All updates for these components are free, feedback is welcomed, and the Flash Components are improved daily. So, now you have the chance to get them all at a ridiculously low price.

gMap is a very flexible and highly customizable jQuery Plugin that helps you embed Google Maps into your website. This lightweight plugin with only 2 Kb in size is available in two versions: compressed and uncompressed. The former is for those who don’t plan to alter the source code and modify the behavior of gMap. The later is intended for developers and is a bit larger in size.

Before using gMap there are just 2 requirements that you need to meet: signup for a Google Maps API key, use the jQuery library 1.3+. This Google Maps script can be customized in many different ways. Many properties can be passed including latitude, longitude, zoom, markers, scroll-wheel, map-type and icon.

mooBarGraph is an AJAX Graph Plugin for MooTools which supports simple bar and stacked bar graphs. This plugin makes graph from your JSON data and is compatible with all major browsers including IE6.

This MooTools script has almost all jqBarGraph possibility, plus some new features such as AJAX data loading, URL bars, info boxes and negative values.

Features include:

• You can set label, color, URL and tooltip text for every bar
• Simple/Stacked Bars
• Legend can be created automatically
• AJAX data loading (can have negative values for simple type)
• Cross-browser compatibility (including IE)

jqFancyTransitions is an easy-to-use jQuery image rotator plugin for displaying your photos as slideslow with fancy transitions effects. After testing many jQuery gallery plugins mostly having just fading and sliding effects, Ivan Lazarevic, decided to make his own slideshow gallery plugin for jQuery.

jqFancyTransitions has many interesting transition effects such as wave, zipper and curtain. There are also options that can be used for custom effect. You can set speed, number of strips, direction, type of effect, etc.