Typography Resources

[Gare]

We've had a little discussion on our forum concerning, "What headline font goes with which body copy typeface?", and although we can make recommendations, it might be more fun for you to learn about typographic compatibilities in the form of an online game, like Type Connection.

This is good, interactive stuff, for discovering what san serifs go with serif fonts, about font weights and other educational stuff that might make you a better designer!

My Best,

Gary

[gingerbeardman]

Font Genius is another good tool for font IDentification. It is a Mac OS X app.

http://fontgear.net/fontgenius.html

more info: http://blog.fontgear.net/tag/font-genius/

Apologies if it has been mentioned before, nothing showed up in a quick search.

[angelize]

Hi Gingerbeardman,

Thanks for these links. It's also good to note that this software, as well as the rest of this company's offerings come in both Mac and Windows versions. And while they are not free the pricing seems reasonable.

[Gare]

There are places online that I am loathe to even visit because they flagrantly offer illegal downloads of commercial fonts.

now, I thought fontspace.com fits the pirate profile, but I did a search on "Garamond" on the site and not one commercial font turned up.

And so I can recommend this freeware typeface designed quite a while ago by Nick Curtis: Nick's Deco Dings. There are over 26 little illustrations in the font, and aside from them looking Retro, I think all you'd need to do is add text to make a logo fror yourself or a client.

Nick's Deco Dings at FontSpace



If you can find Nick's fonts legitimately, go for them. They're clean and professionally coded. Nick used to be a charitable guy and I have several dozen of his free fonts, but in the years past, he has de-posted his free stuff because jerks were taking the free fonts and charging for them on their own pathetic websites.

My Best,

Gary