gHacks technology news » logo http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:56:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Get professional Logo designs for free http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/30/get-professional-logo-designs-for-free/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/30/get-professional-logo-designs-for-free/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:15:04 +0000 Daniel Pataki http://www.ghacks.net/?p=9432 I’m not a huge fan of free web design stuff, mostly because its either hard to modify, or low quality, or if you can tailor it to your needs, you can probably do whatever you need yourself. I also prefer not to use others’ designs since it takes away my sense of identity, but in some cases I’m willing to be more flexible, like in the case of LogoInstant.com.

They offer 25 designs right now, not a big deal quantity-wise, but the designs are extremely good and nice and web 2.0 in a good way. You also get layered PSD files, which means you can modify these images easily (and freely). Plus, they say new ones will be added periodically, which seems to be true, since earlier today when I checked they only had 23 designs I think (a new page was definitely added).

As a web designer I hate using pre-fabricated termplates, but I have to say this is an exception and I’ll be looking into some logos for my own stuff, it’s rare that you get such high quality in this area of the open source market, enjoy!

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/30/get-professional-logo-designs-for-free/feed/ 16 Reveal the Font that has been used in an image http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/30/reveal-the-font-that-has-been-used-in-an-image/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/30/reveal-the-font-that-has-been-used-in-an-image/#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 15:20:41 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4504 I’m a little bit of a font addict. Whenever I see a beautiful font in an image or on a website I have to find out which font it is to play around with it and see if I can use it for any of my projects as well. It’s relatively easy to find out when normal websites and code is involved but I always had difficulties identifying a font that has been used in an image; Well most of the time, some fonts, like the Terminator font stick out and are easily identified.

Sizlopedia discovered a web service called What The Font that can identify the font that has been used in a particular image. Images can either be uploaded to the service or directly from a website. The image that has been uploaded to the server is then analyzed automatically and the user is asked for verification after that process.

Each font char is identified separately and the user can correct or add chars that have not been identified properly. The whole process, from uploading to analysis and manual correction does not take longer than a few seconds.

The matches that have been found are displayed on the next and final page. The original image is floating on top of the page scrolling with the site to speed up the comparison and final identification.

The thing that’s bothering me a little bit is that all fonts on that website are sold which means that you cannot download the font immediately. It’s still nice for identification purposes.

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