How to make your ideas fleshy… Not fishy.

By Jessica Albon

If you’re like most entrepreneurs, you don’t have much trouble coming up with ideas. They wake you while you’re sleeping, and distract you from your current project while you’re awake. They tantalize and tempt and just generally look so much more interesting than whatever happens to be on your to-do list at the moment.

There’s so much to learn, so much to explore, so much to share and say! Where most of us get stuck is in the fleshing things out, the adding depth and dimension to those ideas. Juicing up your metaphors until they’re rock solid, tangible, and resonant… that’s where most entrepreneurs stumble.

How many times have you seen someone in your industry develop a fantastic, creative hook only to… Let it fizzle. They don’t take the time to carefully steward that idea to maturity, instead they rush to make it public before it’s had time to fully …

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How to pick a font: Curly Quotes

By Jessica Albon

While working on an html email design for a client, I was playing with curly quotes to add some extra interest and got to wondering which fonts other people love for their curly quotes. So I asked on Twitter and I got lots of great replies on how to pick a font for curly quotes. Yay.

I wanted to share some of my own favorites with you–so, here you have it, five great font choices for curly quotes. Curly quotes are especially popular for pull quotes (those fancy “Here’s part of the article, set apart, for decoration” quotes you often seen in high-end design and magazines), but they can be used in all kinds of situations.

Garamond Bold

Garamond Bold curly quotes

academy-engraved-LET-thin

Academy Engraved LET Thin curly quotes

Headline One

Headline One curly quotes

pigiarniq

Pigiarniq curly quotes

Guanine

Guanine curly quotes

As you can see, the font you choose for your curly quotes you use …

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