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MGFonts Table of Contents
- My Fonts
- What you will find in my fonts
- My Font Use
- Love Shining Store
- What is a FONT?
- New to Free Fonts and Licenses?
- Great Stuff on CafePress
- FREE FONT WEBSITES
- Best Free Font Website
- AWESOME FREE FONTS
- Fonts on Amazon
- FONT CREATOR
- Software on Amazon
- Free Font Generator
- Visit my store
- CatCrypt Zazzle Store
- Font Feedback
My Fonts
- CatCrypt
- A dingbat of cats.
What you will find in my fonts
- Licensing Information (MOST UP TO DATE)
- How I created it
- See it on a design
My Font Use
My fonts are basically free for both personal and commercial use. I do stipulate ways the fonts cannot be used because I would just cringe if I ever saw them used in that manner.
I also think if you make a killer amount of money off of it, then the least you can do is give back to your community. Basically, instead of paying me for my share of the work it took for you to make some dough, I would like to see my share go to good use.
Here's my favorite link:
What is a FONT?
In typography, a font (also fount) is traditionally defined as a complete character set of a single size and style of a particular typeface. For example, the set of all characters for 9-point Bulmer italic is a font, and the 10-point size would be a separate font, as would the 9 point upright.
After the introduction of computer fonts based on fully scalable outlines, a broader definition evolved. Font is no longer size-specific, but still refers to a single style. Bulmer regular, Bulmer italic, Bulmer bold and Bulmer bold italic are four fonts, but one typeface.
However, the term font is also often used as a metonym for typeface.
New to Free Fonts and Licenses?
Generally, if you are looking for something to use as PERSONAL USE, if it's free, that means it is usually free for those purposes.
However, if you are looking for something to use as COMMERCIAL USE, i.e. on t-shirts you re-sell, your logo, advertising, etc., then you will need to read through the licenses to find ones that stipulate it is free for that use.
THE LICENSE AGREEMENT should (not all do if you are lucky to find the agreement) stipulate how you can use the font (creative uses) and how you can distribute the font (providing the font on a different website or a CD compilation, etc.). MANY AGREEMENTS are attached to the font in a zip file. It's usually titled something like "Read Me." And it is usually a text document of some sort; however, some fontographers have an html document in there. If there is no license attached to the font, using it would be taking a chance, especially for commercial purposes. Sometimes, the readme gets lost in between websites, so another free font site may have it with the font. Some sites offer links to the fontographer's website where they may have a basic agreement for all of their fonts. At the very least, they may have a way to contact them.
When you purchase a program from the store that contains fonts, usually those fonts are only free for personal use. Some are, however, free for commercial use, but the best way to know for sure would be to research the font. It's similar to clip art which works in a similar fashion.
If you are looking for commercial free clipart, consider looking for "dingbat" fonts.
Great Stuff on CafePress
FREE FONT WEBSITES
- DAFONT
- Where you can find Michelle Grewe's Fonts as well as many other free fonts.
- 1001 Free Fonts
- Free Fonts
- Urban Fonts
- Free Fonts
- Abstract Fonts
- Free Fonts
- Simply The Best Fonts
- Free Fonts
- My Fonts
- Not all are free, but some are. Also has "What the font?" feature to help identify unknown fonts you'd like to find.
Best Free Font Website
AWESOME FREE FONTS
COMMERCIAL FREE or ALMOST
- Larabie Fonts
- Ray Larabie is one of the most awesome fontographers on the web. He has many fonts available for free, and free for commercial use. He also has a site for fonts one can purchase, and you can become a fan on facebook.
- Blue Vinyl Fonts
- Some fonts are free for commercial use, however, it is requested that you purchase a font out of gratitude for using a free font for commercial purposes. Not a bad deal when you see how awesome the fonts are.
- Aenigma Fonts
- The license agreement attached to one of his fonts state that all his fonts are free for commercial use; however, keep in mind he is allowed to trump that anytime with a new license, so read his information.
- Nicks Fonts
- His fonts can be found at dafont among other places. His license agreement is not attached as a read me to his fonts. It is on his website. It is probably one of the most laid back agreements out there.
- Vic Fieger Fonts
- His old ones are free. His new ones, he links to. He has some of the best fonts the web has to offer, especially for military type fonts. You can donate to him on dafont.
Fonts on Amazon
ClickArt Fonts 3 (Jewel Case)
Amazon Price: $7.00 (as of 11/29/2009) 
Font. The SourceBook
Amazon Price: $34.20 (as of 11/29/2009)
Print Perfect Fonts Deluxe
Amazon Price: (as of 11/29/2009)
FONT CREATOR
What I use to make fonts
- One of many sites to purchase font creator
- Provides a free trial.
Software on Amazon
Ability is an office suite and includes a generic type photoshop (Ability Photopaint Studio) that allows you to work with images in layers. It has, one of my favorite features, a smart select tool to make it easy to select all the white outside of the image and delete it (so when you use it, you won't have the white box surrounding it).
Printmaster is a publishing software that allows you to work with images, text, text art, and so forth and save it as a Printmaster Document. Out of all the publishing software I've used, I find this one to be the perfect medium between being user friendly for novice users and being capable of doing a lot with it. It's better than, but as user friendly as, Print Shop and Publisher, but it's more user friendly (not quite as good) as Pagemaker.
Ability Office Standard
Amazon Price: $99.99 (as of 11/29/2009)
![Printmaster Gold Version 18 [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41rIwC9-mHL._SL75_.jpg)
Printmaster Gold Version 18 [OLD VERSION]
Amazon Price: $15.49 (as of 11/29/2009)
Free Font Generator
- Fontstruct
- I could not do this personally. It was just too difficult. However, it is fun to try sometimes to build a font off of basic shapes on a grid.
Visit my store
CatCrypt Zazzle Store
Font Feedback
You can leave feedback regarding my font specifically on the font squidoo page or on dafont.com. But if you have any feedback pertaining to the links on this page, or if you are providing free fonts and want a link to you, or if you found some really awesome fonts, then this is a great place for it.
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