Learn how to make your brand look exactly the way you imagined, professionally — through tutorials, style guides, and AI design how-tos written for product founders who design their own brand.
Learn how to make your brand look exactly the way you imagined, professionally — through tutorials, style guides, and AI design how-tos written for product founders who design their own brand.
Learn how to make your brand look exactly the way you imagined, professionally — through tutorials, style guides, and AI design how-tos written for product founders who design their own brand.
Typography isn’t binary — legible or illegible. Between those poles exists a spectrum of reading difficulty that disproportionately affects different users. A 25-year-old with perfect vision reading on a MacBook Pro in an office sees text differently than a 55-year-old with mild presbyopia reading on an iPhone SE in direct sunlight. Someone with dyslexia processes…
When Massachusetts General Hospital redesigned its directional signs in 2019, researchers made a surprising discovery. Patients under stress — elevated heart rate, acute anxiety about diagnoses — lost the ability to parse serif fonts. The cognitive load of navigating an unfamiliar building while worried meant brains defaulted to pattern recognition shortcuts. Sans-serif letterforms with tall…
We’ve all been there. You’re staring at your screen, cursor blinking on an empty artboard, while your client’s brief echoes in your head: “We want something classic… but modern. Elegant… but approachable. And could you make it pop?”. Whatever that means. Your quick solution? The versatile and effortlessly eye-catching gothic fonts. Enhance it with great…
In 2017, Nielsen Norman Group found something surprising: websites that broke all the design rules—ugly layouts, default fonts, no visual polish — often performed better than their “perfect” counterparts. They loaded faster, got straight to the point, and refused to distract users with fluff. These weren’t accidents—they were acts of intentional rebellion. And that rebellion…
Some designers say vectorizing is outdated, that modern AI tools and high-resolution images have made it irrelevant. But ask anyone who’s ever had to print a logo, scale a poster, or clean up AI art, and you’ll hear a different story. Vectorization isn’t gone; it’s more important than ever. So what is a vectorizer? Before…
Christmas is not just tinsel and cocoa anymore, it is a battlefield of christmas quotes that sell. Your customers search for short christmas quotes, funny christmas quotes, and merry christmas quotes, then choose the design that feels most like them. Think of christmas quotes as demand signals, not decoration. Every search for “short christmas quotes,”…
Fonts always tell the truth about where design is headed. And if you look at what people are using on Kittl right now, you can already see the early shape of 2026 — a mix of clean, confident sans-serifs and loud, handmade lettering that feels human again. Some of the fonts topping the charts are…
The ultimate list of ’90s slang words, terms, and phrases Nostalgia for the nineties is making a major comeback, influencing everything from fashion and music to design – hello again, Memphis style! Today, references to the ’90s along with distinctive 90s slang are popping up everywhere, from T-shirt designs to posters. Take a trip down…
Have you noticed more holiday cards built from modern geometric shapes and Risograph-inspired colors popping up this past year? If you’re wondering why this style suddenly feels everywhere, you’re not alone (and yes, we’ve got the answers plus templates to inspire you). Across 2020 and 2025, interest in the modern geometric Risograph aesthetic has been…
December is one of the busiest months on YouTube. Creators upload more holiday videos, and viewers watch more of them You can also see the rise in Google Trends data for “Christmas YouTube”, where interest starts climbing from late November all the way to Christmas week. With more people posting and watching, the fight for…
We’ve reviewed trending 2025 Monotype fonts. We’ve paired them with Kittl Fonts. We’ve built every kind of walkthrough you can imagine about typography. From bold slabs to elegant serifs, Kittl’s library is packed for every kind of creative project, including iconic Monotype typefaces. But, seriously. What makes Monotype font pairing special? If this is your…
After analyzing over 30,000 Kittl projects using all-time data from Kittl’s Metabase, we noticed something fascinating. Designers are rediscovering the beauty of classic typography. Fonts like Adobe Caslon and Cooper Black aren’t fading; they’re being reimagined. These timeless Monotype typefaces continue to appear across thousands of Kittl designs, proving that strong typography never goes out…
