Brian Petty Design Blog » Found Fun http://www.brianpettydesign.com/blog Design Resources and Writings Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:34:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Free Font – My Luv http://www.brianpettydesign.com/blog/2008/12/03/free-font-my-luv/ http://www.brianpettydesign.com/blog/2008/12/03/free-font-my-luv/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:02:52 +0000 Brian http://www.brianpettydesign.com/blog/?p=172 I have a free font that I would like to share with everyone. My Luv is a handwritten font that includes all of the major characters. Uppercase, lowercase and most of the commonly used characters. 92 characters in all.

I had a blast making this font (it is my first!) and I am working on another font as we speak which I will release soon. If you have any suggestions on how to make it better I would love to hear them.

You can use this font for anything you would like. You are free to use these in commerical or personal projects. However you may NOT sell, claim as your own, redistrubute from your own website, email these files to your friends. Just send them the link to this page and have them download the files themselves. If you want to offer them on your blog or website you must link to this page for others to download. No Hotlinking. You do not have to credit me if you use these. Please enjoy and if you want to show me how you used them I would love to see it.

Hope you enjoy the font!

MyLuv Font Preview

Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. ]]> http://www.brianpettydesign.com/blog/2008/12/03/free-font-my-luv/feed/ 2 Free Photoshop Layer Styles – Clean Blue http://www.brianpettydesign.com/blog/2008/10/15/free-photoshop-layer-styles-clean-blue/ http://www.brianpettydesign.com/blog/2008/10/15/free-photoshop-layer-styles-clean-blue/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:10:59 +0000 Brian http://bpettydesign.wordpress.com/?p=114 I am proud to release a set of 26 Photoshop layer styles to help speed up the time you spend designing. This first set is called Clean Blue and is the first in the set of clean colors. Please feel free to use these in your designs.

Clean Blue Photoshop Layer Styles

Clean Blue Photoshop Layer Styles

More info and download after the jump.

These layer styles are perfect for navigation buttons for the web as well as many other uses. You are free to use these in commerical or personal projects. However you may NOT sell, claim as your own, redistrubute from your own website, email these files to your friends. Just send them the link to this page and have them download the files themselves. If you want to offer them on your blog or website you must link to this page for others to download. No Hotlinking. You do not have to credit me if you use these. Please enjoy and if you want to show me how you used them I would love to see it.

Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.


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I particularly love the marriage counselor’s business card. What a fantastic idea! It’s also interesting that “Hello My Name is” card is almost exactly like our first business card before we re-branded last year.

Makes me think that maybe it’s time to re-think our cards…hmm…I’ll file this in the future projects part of my brain.

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