For When You HAVE to Have the Font From “Sliders”
First of all, thanks to everyone who helped make yesterday’s launch such a huge success! We’ve received a pretty staggering amount of traffic in the past 24 hours and taken over del.icio.us. Of course, this is all pretty much due to the link on Lifehacker. Thanks, Gina!
So by now, everyone’s already seen, bookmarked and forgotten about the RockRage Music Fonts, but it’s not the only site featuring purloined and repurposed free fonts masquerading as original typefaces.
Typenow.net’s Themed page offers a ton of fonts not only from the music world, but TV, movies, video games and more.
There are about a billion other sites like this on the web, but most of them feature the same crappy fonts over and over again. Sites like this are pretty strange: they’ll take a free font with only a negligible resemblance to a typeface from an album cover or movie, rename it and then host it off their own site. For instance, RockRage has my old font Uptown listed as their Sepultura font. WTF?
7 Comments
Stephen / February 22, 2005 @ 12:59 pm
That’s just the sort of quality you can expect from amateur type makers. That’s why this place is so vital. Help us weed out the crap from the good in the freebie realm!
Mat / February 22, 2005 @ 1:07 pm
Why aren’t the post complete on the categorized pages? I was about to bookmark your feed with bloglines, but I’m having second thoughts now :s
example: http://fontleech.com/?cat=6
joey / February 22, 2005 @ 1:18 pm
Stephen:
I agree, but each of those sites have a few intersting faces at least (especially TypeNow). I like Debussy, which they use as the Dunkin Donuts font.
Mat:
Those are just excerpts. In the near future those pages will be so bloated with incredible posts that the full text would make them unwieldy.
Stephen / February 22, 2005 @ 1:51 pm
The problem with Debussy and some of the other fonts hosted at Dafont and other archives is that it’s likely someone took VAG Rounded (a commercial font) and added some weight to it.
High quality free fonts that are also truly original (not copies or digital derivations of other fonts) are few and far between.
joey / February 22, 2005 @ 2:02 pm
This is why it’s handy to have someone with Stephen’s encyclopedic knowledge keeping an eye on us.
The sad truth is that most of the original free fonts on the web are really awful handwriting fonts.
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