Typography Resources

[wizard509]

I agree Frances. I also had in mind freebie fonts also. The Letterhead fonts site is just an example for showcasing a font. Granted their fonts are very elegant but I think font play could be showcasing a particular font each month maybe like a challenge to see what can be done by the members using that particular font in some way. The theme should be the font itself and what it might suggest to the contributor. For instance look at the elegance Psaumure puts into his designs. I think he could make a cat box look good. I noticed you are setting a theme of mans best friend or something like that in another thread and letting whomever pick a font to fit the theme. To me it should be the other way round. Contributors pick a theme of their choice to fit the particular font of the month. But maybe I'm all wet here.

[wizard509]

Thanks for that information Gare.
I have used that font to make my own screen saver and my startup in X3D.

[Gare]

I think in addition to font recommendations, folks, that Font Unrecommendations should qualify for posting, too.

IOW, places that vend pirate typefaces, broken, ones, who have unreasonable practices such as spamming sign-up members, and so on.

But I don't want to whack a site without giving a reason.

I think a "Font Unrecommendation" that fits my critea for posting is:

•Fontspace.com-Although this site has a good collection, many of the typefaces are rip-offs, some have only been renamed from the original files from Corel Corp. and other sources. If you have a doubt about one of their typefaces, download it and right-click then choose Properties to see the copyright, if any. FontSpace requires an account, which can be overridden if you're clever about it, but if you do sign up, expect your email address to be sold to spammers.

I have never found a resource for high-quality commercial typefaces that have been created free and clear of commercial copyright issues, and I've been trolling the web for fonts for more than a decade. Because I'm a fontaholic and I need a fix regularly.

FontShop and Dafont usually have good knock-offs of classics such as Kabel, Aachen Bold, perhaps even Garamond, but if you want quality fonts for free, forget the notion that you can get commercial knock-offs, and just settle for original cottage industry typefaces.

Hey, there are some fresh new creative authors who offer interesting stuff all the time. Stay tuned to Smashing magazine who does a round-up of free fonts about once a month.

—Gary

[wizard509]

Here is a really nice looking font called overlock and a little of what I found out about it.

Copyright (c) 2011, Dario Manuel Muhafara
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. - 26 February 2007

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/overlock

The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves.

[Gare]

It's an attractive, fresh face!

Generally, the FontSquirrel offerings are intented, although not always, as Font Face (Web Font) media. If anyone looks carefully at the Xara Xone, Barbara and I use three Web Font-enabled typefaces, so the text can always be copied and reading machines can read it for the visually impaired.

I think if the Web Font thing picks up some stream, it will be another renaissance for font creators, who have been in the dumps for a decade because Microsoft and Apple trashed the price of typefaces with the TrueType file format.

Anyone recall paying $40-$60 in 1994 for a cheap font family?

-g-

[angelize]

I featured the Overlock font (actually there is a whole family of about 8 styles) in the January Freebie Friday post, and I agree it is a nice fresh face, and a very generous offering too.

[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.

[Emilycarl]

Thanks for listing up the font identification tool. One of my client need to identify his website's font style!

[Jaydenwhite]

Thanks for information, really good option available i use it when i need.
but really thanks to increase my knowledge.