Tuesday, April 15, 2008

30+ Excellent Resources for Download and create Free Fonts

Free Font Articles

25 Best Free Quality Fonts

Most fonts presented below are absolutely license-free which means that you can use them for both private, personal and commercial purposes without any limitations whatsoever.

40+ Excellent Freefonts

The importance of typography in design can’t be overestimated. The accuracy, precision and balance of geometric forms can give letters the elegance and sharpness they deserve and help to convey the message in a more convenient way.

Free "Broken Typewriter" style fonts

Really good free fonts for download. Broken 15 has to be my favourite, it looks familiar?!

The top 500 fonts on the Web

Wendy Boswell @ Lifehacker writes: "I have kind of a secret fetish for good free fonts, so Fonts 500, a site that has collected the top 500 popular fonts used on the Web, is definitely on my good list."

Pixel Fonts

Pixel fonts for web designers

Pixel fonts are perfect for those intricate Flash, CSS, or HTML based websites that have a premium on real estate. Here's a bunch of free pixel font downloads.

Free Pixel Fonts

This is a set of 20 downloadable pixel fonts - suitable for use in Ilustration or Flash work etc. They all seem very nice, and besides, you can never have too many pixel fonts!

Free Pixel Fonts

This site is cool. You can try out the free pixel fonts before you download them.

Ubuntu Fonts

300+ Easily Installed Free Fonts for Ubuntu
Ubuntu offers a lot of fonts, in addition to the defaults installed, and the Microsoft msttcorefonts package, in its repositories. All these fonts mentioned here are provided as packages, which can easily installed using command line tools like apt-get or using Synaptic.

465 Free Fonts for Ubuntu
Brian Kent is a prolific font designer. At 32 years old he's already amassed an impressive collection of handmade fonts. He's also a really nice guy and has agreed to let me package his free fonts for Ubuntu.

Optimal Use of Fonts on Linux
The font subsystem on Linux evolved a lot in the last years, from an old naming, handling and option of fonts, to the support of True Type, Bistream Vera, etc. As of release time of Fedora Core 2, components like Xft, FreeType and FontConfig, and higher level software usage of them has stabilized and is now considered mature.

Linux Libertine Open Fonts offers free Times Roman alternative
Philipp H. Poll started the Linux Libertine Open Fonts project in September 2003 because of his dissatisfaction with the fonts shipped with GNU/Linux distributions. "In SUSE 9.x," he recalls, "you had to use a script to download the Microsoft core fonts if you wanted to have good TrueType fonts.

Font Sites



Dafont

Archive of freely downloadable fonts. Browse by alphabetical listing, by style, by author or by popularity. View top 100

Typetester - Compare Screen Type

Typetester is an online application, that can be pretty useful when you need to check or choose a typeface for your (next) project. You can easily set up a typeface with the most of the options applicable for the screen type, including the colors of the text and the background.


Over 300 very popular Movie, TV Show, and Book Title Fonts

Check these out. You can download any of them that you want for free, and they're pretty cool.


Better Fonts - over 10,000 fonts for free!

This page kicks arse. No b/s, just problem free font downloads !! Love it.

Urban Fonts

Download free fonts and free dingbats. PC fonts, Mac fonts, truetype fonts. View top 100

9800+ Free Fonts

9800 fonts free to download with a nice preview feature.

Search Free Fonts

Over 13,000 free fonts available for download.


1001 Free Fonts

A great place to get great fonts. They have the perfect font for you.

Abstract Fonts

Your type - 10 000 Free Fonts.

Neat fonts - Freeware fonts gone web 2.0!

This site is just so cool it hurts.

Download 10000 Free Fonts - ShowFont.net

Cool PC fonts and Mac fonts and dingbats. All fonts are in truetype format.

1001 Fonts

All fonts on this site are either freeware or shareware and in the TrueType or PostScript format.

6500 Free TrueType Fonts!

This site has 6500 free TrueType (TTF) fonts. These fonts are mostly fantastic. I'll be sure to use some of them!

SimplytheBest Fonts library

Browse through the alphabetical font listings or the font categories to view the available free fonts. Each font has a full preview page with proprietary details.

How to make your own font

Pentacom - Create Your Own Font!
This website allows you to create your own font. Once you finish it you can upload it to the gallery so you can download it, as well as hundreds of others that other people have made.

Wired: How To Create Your Own Font
While every computer these days comes pre-loaded with an adequate number of fonts, sometimes you want to create your own. Maybe there's a special project like a family cookbook or class assignment that requires a personal touch.Whatever the reason, here's how to make your own font.

How to Make Your Own Handwriting Font
A good tutorial on how to convert your handwriting to a font for free.

Chank's Font-Making Tutorial
Chank say: "This tutorial explains my personal font-making technique. It may not be the academically approved typographic design process, but it works for me, and it can be done on any Mac or PC with the proper software installed. You've been working with the alphabet since you were a small child. Now you can make a font of your own."

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