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COM4t

March 17, 2005 at 11:56 am / Foundries, Japan

COM4t is yet another Japanese foundry. They’ve got a bunch of clean, professional free fonts like Spirequal Light, Oldnew and the Familian family. I probably don’t have to tell you how rare it is to find practical, useful fonts for free.

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logotypes.ru

March 16, 2005 at 1:30 pm / Time wasters

It’s not exactly a font site, but Jason Fields points out logotypes.ru, an amazing repository of 4,999 (as of this minute) corporate logos in Illustrator format. Download away while the cease-and-desist orders work their way through the Rube Goldbergian Russian postal system.

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K-Type

March 16, 2005 at 9:00 am / Foundries, Europe

K-Type is an independent British foundry with several very inexpensive commercial fonts–and three completely free ones! Mandatory is based on the font used on England’s license plates and Lexia Readable is an interesting sans serif. Strangely enough, dafont.com has Roadway, which is a great street sign font that I can’t find anywhere on K-Type’s website.

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Typotek

March 15, 2005 at 1:00 pm / Foundries, Europe

It seems like I see the same half dozen grunge fonts over and over again. Not just on the web, but on crappy album covers, t-shirts and in video games. And the thing is, they suck. And believe me, I should know, I designed one of them (Uptown, which I apologize for. I was young.).

So how come I’ve never seen anyone use Cagna, by Typotek? It’s actually good. And it’s perfect for your roommate’s friend’s ~~band’s~~ non-profit organization’s website that you’ve been working on.

Those guys rock, by the way.

Update: For those of you who don’t speak French, you can head straight to Typotek’s download page.

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GAU+

March 14, 2005 at 12:34 pm / Foundries, Japan

GAU+ (Graphic Arts Unit) is a nice Japanese site with several cool, usable free fonts. While a lot of sites have only one or two decent fonts and dozens of crappy ones, GAU has a pretty good ratio of quality fonts despite their limited selection. I downloaded Milk Choco and Pop Magic.

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Lovedesign

March 14, 2005 at 8:44 am / Foundries, Japan

If it seems like you’re seeing a lot of Japanese sites here lately, well, you are. Lovedesign is a Japanese foundry offering just short of 50 free fonts. I heartily recommend Poo3 and Gameboy Gamegirl.