Typography Resources

[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.

[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

[Emilycarl]

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

[mwenz]

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

Welcome. But seeing how you are digging up a 5 year-old thread, I hope you are not just ...

Just look at the CSS to identify the font, then. Unless it is a graphic, it will be listed there.

[Jaydenwhite]

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

[Gare]

Hi Jaydenwhite—

Can you share with us what you use typography for the most in your work?

Web? Offset printing? PDF documents? Check forging?

TYA,
Gary