Archive for Fontleech

Weekend Discussion Questions 3

I get tons of email on this subject and I never have any answers. So I’ll turn it over to you guys as suggested:

What’s the best software package for managing a huge collection of leeched fonts? In OS X? In Windows?

Weekend Discussion Questions 2

How many fonts do you have on your computer?
How many of those fonts have you actually used?

Pug Attack

If you’ve noticed a dovetail in the frequency of posts lately, it probably has something to do with the newest member of the family. I’ll be back up to speed soon.

Weekend Discussion Questions

Have you ever purcased a font? Why or why not?
Which foundry do you wish would offer their fonts for free?

Greatest Hits

If you missed any of these amazing posts over the past three weeks, you might want to give them a look (or live to regret it):

How To: Install Fonts in Windows
Pixel Font Blowout Part 3
STC fontBrowser
Manfred Klein
Pixel Font Hero: Sven Stüber
District Thin
Kontrapunkt Light
BitFontMaker
Three International Favorites

Show Me What You’re Working With

So we’ve been diligently pointing you to some good fonts for two weeks now. That’s long enough for the results to start showing up on the web, right? Leave a comment and show us how you’ve used one of the fonts you found through Fontleech. And check it out, we’re using Kontrapunkt in our header now.

Our Ears Are Burning

Well, it’s been five days since we got started and it’s pretty clear that we set the web on fire this week. We love people talking about us! Check it out:

Fraise dissects a great Kanji font she found on Maniackers after visiting our site.

Some professional font designers discuss Fontleech on the Typophile forums.

Metafilter comments on Fontleech.

Big Ups

Wow. Thanks to MetaFilter we got a crapload of new visitors and a million new blogs linking us. Show these people some love: 4rthur, Airbag, Brilliant Corners, little. yellow. different., MacMerc, Newstoday, Whitehotnow.

And most importantly, to my lovely girlfriend Emily who’s put up with me obsessively reloading the stats page for 3 days straight.