April 28, 2005 at 12:09 pm / Single fonts
It’s easy to hate on free fonts. The average free font is hideous. The average free dingbat font, however, is not only hideous, but also completely useless. Sure it might look cute on his site, but when are you every actually going to need 100 of some Swedish guy’s drawings of pastries?
Christian Ghirardi’s Fleur de Wee at Chank is a great collection of those fancy French dingbats on French stuff.
Kenn Munk’s Karmaflage isn’t so much a dingbat as a “system for building ornamental camouflage patterns.” From the readme:
Numerals produce one type of camouflage, upper case letters another type and lower case letters a third. For best results, set leading to 0 and use two or more layers, keeping each type of camouflage-ornament in its own layer.
Anyone else got some dingbats that don’t suck?
(Thanks to Coles, and a couple other chumps who were too slow, for the Kenn Munk link).
April 25, 2005 at 11:42 am / Time wasters, Novelties
Even if you haven’t played the games, surely you can respect the greatness of this insane archive of Sega fonts.
My First Font is a site that’s been getting a lot of hits on del.icio.us today. Which is awesome, because what the web really needs is a million more crappy handwriting fonts, right?
A detailed explanation of why Arial sucks.
April 22, 2005 at 11:48 am / Time wasters
This question is for the font designers out there:
Do you give any of your fonts away for free? Why or why not? Discuss.
April 20, 2005 at 12:32 pm / Novelties
The Roadgeek fonts are Michael Adams’ obsessively-detailed clones of highway signage typefaces used in America, Germany and the UK. The package even includes a cloned family of Clearview, the new font popping up on American highway signs. Texas began using Clearview on their highway signs before I moved to California, and although I’m not sure if it was significantly more legible, at least it looked nicer.
April 19, 2005 at 1:14 pm / Single fonts
Jefferson Gothic Oblique is a great font, but it’ll take you a little bit of work to get it. When you sign up for P22’s mailing list, they’ll send you the URL where you can download Jefferson and a couple other (far less interesting) faces. Thanks to my new buddy Jon Hicks for the link.
Thanks for visiting Fontleech, the only graphic design related site on the web that won’t bore you to tears with endless speculation and commentary on the Adobe/Macromedia thing.
April 18, 2005 at 10:40 am / Foundries, Europe
Heinrich Lischka’s Font Boutique only has a couple of free fonts available but it’s definitely worth checking out. I like Neo Retro, but the real gem here is clearly Samba.
April 15, 2005 at 11:06 am / Fontleech
What is the best free font you’ve ever found (and you’d better include links!)?
April 15, 2005 at 8:38 am / Time wasters
This list of the most common fonts installed on Windows machines is kind of weird. The only reason people would be missing any of the top dozen or so is because they uninstalled them, right? Who uninstalls Arial but leaves Arial Black? WTF?
The 10 Most Widely Used Fonts for Newspapers. Is it me or is this is just completely made up?
I don’t think these 300 Essential Fonts for Designers are actually essential (or in most cases even good), but I figure if I post this link people will stop emailing it to me. Snarkiness aside, there are some good fonts in this collection, but be prepared for some monumentally bad ones.
