Cool Typography: Font Downloads, Letter Tricks and Typography How-to
Do you love fonts? I like to play with type and lettering. Visit this lens to find the best free font sites plus learn how to do cool things with type. Look good in print and on your blog or web page with free fonts and type tools. Do check Terms of Use for any free fonts you download - be sure they're okay to use without license.
Fun with Fonts
Letterforms - Visual Communication & Type as Art
Type is a way to communicate visually, and to enhance the meaning of displayed text. Letterforms as images are highly compelling and important to communication in all languages.It seems like everyone loves "fonts" - you can find thousands of examples online by surfing the web sea of personal pages, DIY web sites, blog posts, MySpace pages and free "bling" banner maker font toys.
History is filled with examples of typographic embellishment or graffiti on every markable surface - from walls to books, buildings, flags, clothing, jewelry, handbills, print media and packaging.
One of the first things people try their hand at with any publishing tool is to change the typeface to another size, another style, another color ... then they progress to warping and special effects: shadows, curves, stretching, skewing, adding outlines, 3-D, "word art" and animation.
What is it about type that is so compelling and makes us want to play with letters? Who knows, but there are many places to find free fonts and type toys, so read on and have Fun with Fonts.
Big Font Collections on CD
Best Free Font Sites
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dafont.com
Archive of freely downloadable fonts. Browse by al more...2 points
[DIVIDE BY ZERO] Fonts : Free TrueType Fonts
Lots of free, original Truetype Fonts for download more...1 point
UrbanFonts.com
Download free fonts and free dingbats. PC fonts, M more...1 point
Download Free Fonts @ 1001 Fonts .com
Download free fonts for Windows and free fonts for more...0 points
Oliver Conte Design -- FREE Custom Designed Fonts
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Fonts | Smashing Magazine
Free Fonts Of The Month 40+ Excellent Freefonts Fo more...0 points
SimplytheBest Free Fonts
SimplytheBest Free Fonts. A collection of the best more...0 points
Font Paradise
Choose from thousands of free fonts for windows to more...0 points
PCFonts.com - List of Free Font Sites
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MacFonts.com - Free Mac Font Sites
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Typography & Design Books
Type-Heads
If you're really into typography, check out these links
- SOTA : The Society of Typographic Aficionados
- The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) is a non-profit, volunteer-driven organization devoted to type, typography, and the related arts.
- ATypI-Assoiciation Typographique Internationale
- ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) is the premier worldwide organisation dedicated to type and typography. Founded in 1957, ATypI provides the structure for communication, information and action amongst the international type community.
- The Right Typeface for Text
- PDF article from Before & After magazine - sharing its practical approach to graphic design since 1990.
- Typofile Magazine - Home
- Almost everything we know in the world can be described in just 26 letters--isn't that amazing? Yet this most visible
art--which we all see all around us each day--has long been invisible in most people's minds. Part of this was intentional - because the content, not the type, is the message. - EsperFonto - Type Face Selector
- Typeface / Font selection system - choose the most appropriate FONT for your job with the help of this nifty online tool.
Heyyy Abbott
Visualisizing Humor
Who's on First? Typography
Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?" routine using typography only. Demo Reel: http://web.mac.com/james_zito/JimZito/Jim_Zito.html
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Font Tools
Bend me, shape me, glitter me, convert me ...
Free Font Warping Tools - Make 3D Text, Glittering Banners, Signs, Magazine Covers ...What the Font - put a name to a face when you know what it looks like but not the font name.
Mac Font Converter - convert TrueType fonts to Mac fonts with this share ware tool
Font Toys
- Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
- Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide.
Dover Font & Type Books
Specialized Typography, Lettering & Calligraphy
Drop Caps & Manuscript Initials
Illuminata and Attention Grabbers
This drop cap example utilizes HTML style controls - check out HTML Squidoo Tricks to find out how to add this feature to your blog, lens or web page.
- HTML Squidoo Tricks
- HTML Squidoo tricks how to lens with sample codes & step-by-step instructions to change fonts, make drop caps, alter background colors, add images and lots more.
- How To Article: Drop Cap
- Use the Microsoft Word Drop Cap feature to make the first letter of a paragraph stand out.
- Easy Magazine Style CSS Drop Cap Tutorial
- Copy and paste CSS drop caps. Tutorial for drop caps including magazine and novel style big first letters in a paragraph.
Specialty Font Sources
- Font Diner
- Retro style fonts and type history - cool, hip fun site.
- Free Scrapbooking Fonts
- The Best Scrap You can Find... Online!
- MusicEffect Band Fonts
- Fonts from band logos-band fonts, music fonts, metal fonts, different fonts. Indexed by band name, with cool mouse-over previewer.
- ENIGMA FONTS
- All of the Fonts on this site are made by Brian Kent, and all are Freeware. You can use them any way you want (Personal use, Commercial use, or whatever).
- Kat's Fun Fonts!
- Free original alpha ding and pictorial fun fonts!
Funky Font Video
Tramp Typography
Tramp Typography
Animated typography to music (Tramp by Lowell Fulson)
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Ding Bats, Glyphs, Symbols
Type a key, get a picture ...
Tom 7/Divide by Zero Hand drawn and grungy dings
FontGarden Dingbats - many categories of unusual dings including borders, dividers, tags and buttons useful for scrapbooking
Specialized Font Sets on CD-ROM
Hard to find type collections
Typography & Font Lenses
Learn about type and design from these lensmasters
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Typography in a jiffy
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What is typography ? is it the art of miss-spelling? Come here to learn the art of typography..
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Resources for Graphic Designers
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A comprehensive listing of great links and resources for Graphic Designers. Feel free to add to these lists, and leave a comment in the guestbook.
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6 Easy Steps to Basic Typography in Any Document
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This guide can also be found here, at JoshCanHelp.com. This guide is for anyone and everyone who knows little about fonts, typefaces, and document design. This small primer serves as either an introduction to typography or all the information you'll...
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Free Fonts to Download and Use
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Whether you use them for newsletters, designing great CafePress gear, or just fooling around with your website, fonts are FUN. Find out where to get the best free fonts, learn more about typography, and see some of our favorites. Fonts ar...
Graphics Lenses
Free graphics resources on Squidoo
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Vintage Graphics & Antique Clip Art
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Old-time photos, vintage, greeting cards, sheet music, antique advertising, posters, handbills, newspaper cuts, magazine clippings and book pages add a warm and nostalgic feeling to handmade gifts, trading cards, paper crafts, gift tags and scrapbook...
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Clip Art and Graphics - Free For All
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This lens features the best free clip art collections online - links that take you to sites with many free graphics in sizes large enough to be useful for many crafts and general printed projects. You'll find top quality bitmap clip art and photos PL...
Letter Art - Flickr Photos
Calligraphy, graffiti, lettering, typographica
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Fonts-Del.icio.us bookmarks
Why reinvent the wheel? Someone found these free fonts for you.
Word Music - Kinetic Typography
Live Out Loud
Kinetic Typography - Live Out Loud
Example of Kinetic Typography created by Johnny Lee
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What's Your Type?
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Nice lens. I love different types of fonts. Great links here! 5 *'s !!!! Posted July 02, 2008 |
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