Graphic designer Dan Noe’s website is pretty slick. But the best part is his free fonts section which features several weights of the Noe Tall & Stout, an excellent techno font for your rave flyers or trance mix CDs.
On another note, please keep sending me your free font links. Don’t hog all the super obscure sites for yourself; share the wealth!
Glashaus Design is a (German?) graphic design studio that has a few free fonts available for download on their site. One of them happens to be the excellent sans serif “Lacuna”. Once you enter their site, just click on the “Glashaus-Fonts” link at the top of the page to check out Lacuna and Catherine, a nice serif typeface. Then pat yourself on the back for following instructions soooooo well, kiddo!
FontForge looks like it might be a decent open-source font editor. Has anyone tried it? A free software package that performed comparably to FontLab would be awesome.
Hrant Papazian is teaching an Introduction to Typeface Design class at Art Center in Pasadena. It looks like a great crash course in type design for only $200 (at a very respected school, no less). I was thinking about it myself, since it’s about 2 blocks from my job, but this working stiff can’t make 4-7pm classes.
That’s it for today, I’m off to opening day at Dodger Stadium!
I wouldn’t attempt to pronounce it, but Polenimschaufenster is “the free font foundry by Hannes Siengalewicz, student of MultiMediaArt.” Hannes says:
Driven by serbian Sljivovic I create typefaces out of found footage like money, old magazines, boardgames from the 60ies or lables on bottles of liguor. Kyrillic characters rock.
Of course that quote needs a pounding from my giant [sic] stamp, but Hannes makes some pretty interesting fonts. Dinarjev Republika and Union Argochemicals are grungy without being obnoxious and Zwiefalter Klosterbräu is a useful script face. I really like fonts like this that have just the right touch of sloppiness.
There’s a lot of great information in the font management software thread, but I’ll break it down for you.
For Windows users, FontHit looks like a pretty good solution. And you can also get Bitstream Font Navigator 5 by downloading the massive CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 Trial.
For Mac users, there’s a few crappy freeware apps and FontAgent Pro, which will set you back $100. But hey, you’re a Mac user so you’ve got money to burn, right?
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?
These Hebrew fonts look awesome, but they’re of no real use to this goy.
I think the name says it all: Pirates & Fonts.
This has to be the dumbest collection of fonts ever (possibly NSFW?).
Sorry for the dearth of updates lately. Stupid real life!
Do you enjoy navigating absurdly undersized interfaces to download your free fonts? Then I’ve got just the site for you: Shamrocking! Get your eyes an inch or two from the monitor and check out their free font page (that’s the entire page pictured above).
I actually like the fonts a lot, and a little squinting doesn’t bother me. YMMV (IIRC, IANAL, LOL).
Update: Uh, so apparently it’s the right size in IE. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.