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Cufon Font Replacement
Cufón aims to become a "worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use." How cufon is... (Posted February 2, 2009)
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sIFR Vault: repository of sIFR fonts
Fans of the flash image replacement technique sIFR have a great place to grab sIFR -ready fonts. sIFR fonts has a ton of fonts... (Posted January 24, 2009)
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Font Picker: Visual Font Picker
Font Picker lets you input your text and see it displayed in a lot of different font faces. A nice way to see test... (Posted January 19, 2009)
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Font Squirrel: Free Fonts for commercial use
Font Squirrel features free, quality fonts that are licesnsed for commercial work. Font Squirrel | Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses.... (Posted January 17, 2009)
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8 Definitive Web Font Stacks
Sitepoint has a nice article today, exploring the idea of font stacks. I’ve been considering the idea of font stacks—using the well-known font-family CSS property—to... (Posted January 7, 2009)
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Bold Typography Uses, Inspiration and Free Fonts
Site PSDFan takes a look at the use of bold typography in web design, how to uses it, showcase of sites that use it... (Posted December 22, 2008)
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20 Typefaces to Start a Designer's Career
JustCreativeDesign.com has a great article, looking at the 20 best fonts to buy for a design career. Even if you're not a professional designer,... (Posted November 12, 2008)
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Clean Font Showcase
From 350designs.com, a nice showcase of clean, legible fonts, complete with download links. 350 Designs - Examples of clean, legible fonts with download links... (Posted November 10, 2008)
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20+ Beautiful Free Serif Fonts
From site Think Design a round-up of some nice and free serif fonts that is worth a browse. Font Resources - 20 Beautiful Free... (Posted November 4, 2008)
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Designers Favorite Fonts
The DesignO'Blog looks at which fonts designers love and why and demonstrates each font through images of their work. A great read for a look... (Posted October 7, 2008)
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Weekend Link Round-up
Scripts and Coding 1. From Bulletproof Box35 Essential jQuery Tutorials, Code Chunks and Plugins for Designers. 2. From devSnippets, 22 JavaScript Frameworks. Web Design and... (Posted October 5, 2008)
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Top 7 Fonts Used by Professionals
Just Creative Design has collected the top seven fonts that are used by professionals in graphic design. The fonts are all classics and are not... (Posted September 24, 2008)
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Typechart: Browse Web Type then Grab the CSS
Typechart lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography (as it appears on Windows and Mac) and then grab the CSS for the type... (Posted September 2, 2008)
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Veerle's 10 Favorite Typefaces
When Veerle talks fonts, I'm sure going to pop over and have a look and she has some nice fonts on her top 10 lists.... (Posted August 4, 2008)
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40+ Extremely Beautiful Fonts from deviantART
Noupe.com has a great round-up of hand-picked fonts from the pages of deviantART. Well worth browsing! 40 Extremely Beautiful FONTS Hand-picked from deviantART... (Posted July 21, 2008)
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101 Awesome Downloadable Fonts for Designers
Website Free Geekery has a nice list of free fonts all nicely categorized by font style. Well worth browsing for some new font finds. 101... (Posted April 17, 2008)
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5 Fonts I Wish Would Die
Well not me, but the author of the article. I do agree on the first four for sure. I'm not sure about sending Times... (Posted April 15, 2008)
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Top 15 Inspirational Typography and Font Blogs
Website Specky Boy has a nice round-up of 15 Typography and Font blogs. Well worth browsing for some type inspiration. It is very easy... (Posted April 6, 2008)
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10 Nice (and Free) Grunge Fonts
I was looking around for some grunge fonts recently and found a nice selection, so I thought I'd round-up a few of my favourites, all... (Posted March 20, 2008)
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Favorite Typefaces of 2007
The font lovers over at Typographica have rounded up their favorite typefaces of 2007. A nice list worth browsing for some font inspiration. Our... (Posted March 8, 2008)
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30 Fonts That All Designers Must Own
From website Just Creative Design, a nice list of great fonts, that makes for a nice font shopping list for anyone interested in building... (Posted March 3, 2008)
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Dingbat Fonts Roundup
Design site Bittbox.com has a nice roundup of Dingbat Fonts that can be really useful in design, especially when converted to vector images in... (Posted February 18, 2008)
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Fawnt: a font resource for anyone
Fawnt is a font resource for designers, developers and "anyone that appreciates the web's highest quality fonts". The very visual layout makes it easy to... (Posted November 5, 2007)
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Font Sugar: only the totally awesomest fonts
Font Sugar promises only the most totally awesomest fonts and delivers them in both free and pay fonts. A worthy bookmark for fontaholocs.... (Posted October 31, 2007)
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54 Typography Resources Every Designer Should Bookmark
54 Typography Resources Every Designer Should Bookmark is a nice list which has some great typography article links as well as links to some great... (Posted October 28, 2007)
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15 Excellent Examples of Web Typography
Typography lovers site "i love typography" offers up a nice collection of website typography inspiration in their article 15 Excellent Examples of Web Typography.... (Posted September 20, 2007)
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I Love Typography
i love typography - is a great website for type lovers, with liniks to articles, resources, font foundries and much more. A worthwhile bookmark... (Posted August 21, 2007)
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ddfont: all the fonts you'll ever want
Download fonts | ddfont.com - all the fonts you'll ever want. - a nice new (to me) font site. I like that all the fonts... (Posted July 27, 2007)
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16 Best Loved Fonts in Web Design
16 Best-Loved Font Bits In Web Design is based an an article from Smashing Magazine, which rounds up the fonts most web designers reach... (Posted July 8, 2007)
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Some really nice fonts for download
Peter Saville Graphic Design - fonts - scroll down to see the fonts and note that there are several pages. Just scroll down more to... (Posted June 21, 2007)
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TypeWiki: Fonts used by large commercial sites
TypoWiki has compiled an extensive list of large commercial sites with the fonts they use. It's interesting on an individual level (McDonald's uses the Akzidenz... (Posted June 4, 2007)
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Favorite Free Fonts
My Favorite Free Fonts - 25 of them and sure to be a new one in there for just about everyone. Worth a look.... (Posted April 28, 2007)
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Fonts 500: The web's top 500 free fonts
Fonts 500 displays what is says are the web's top 500 free fonts. You can view the fonts using their font names for preview... (Posted April 7, 2007)
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Chosing the right font for the job
DesignersMind: Choosing the right font for the job!, a great read on chosing fonts. "Designers spend a large portion of their work time contemplating the... (Posted April 2, 2007)
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Getting Started with sIFR
Dynamic text replacement - .net magazine walks through how easy it is to implement rich text fonts into your web pages using sIFR, giving headings... (Posted March 20, 2007)
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5 really great grunge fonts
5 Excellent Free Grunge Fonts | Bittbox "These are 5 of the (in my opinion) best free “grunge” or “eroded” typefaces of late." They... (Posted March 20, 2007)
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Better Font Management Tips
Got fonts? Got lots of fonts? Digital Web Magazine offers up some suggestions for getting control of them, whether on Windows or Mac, using the... (Posted March 6, 2007)
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Collection of Stencil Fonts
Resources - Stencil Revolution - a nice selection of stencil fonts, free to download for PC or Mac. Be sure to check out the... (Posted February 21, 2007)
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Handy tool to convert TrueType Fonts to sIFR Flash files
sIFR is a great script that allows web developers to move beyond basic web fonts and replace html fonts with a Flash replacement of any... (Posted February 7, 2007)
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Best Fonts of 2006
Best Fonts of 2006 and some fine fonts they are! Worth a look for some font inspiration.... (Posted February 7, 2007)
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Fontshop's 100 Best Fonts
The 100 Best Fonts (Die 100 Besten Schriften) - the site may be in German? but font names are universal. There are a lot of... (Posted January 24, 2007)
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15 Tips to Choose a Good Font
Typies: 15 tips to choose a good text type - a look at what to look at in type to make usage decisions for various... (Posted December 30, 2006)
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A look at popular web 2.0 fonts
Great Fonts for Web 2.0 takes a look at the font choices of some popular web 2.0 sites. I tend to think of web... (Posted November 13, 2006)
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Neat Fonts
I had a major deja vu moment when I clicked over to Neat fonts - Discover Free fonts from all over the web. Hadn't I... (Posted October 30, 2006)
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Font Table
maratz.com: Table of web-fonts - hows the most common Windows fonts, at different pixel sizes, small, medium, large, bold and italic. Opening the page... (Posted October 22, 2006)
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Free Font Manifesto
Free Font Manifesto - a new movement to encourage more quality fonts in the public domain. This site offers links to some quality fonts... (Posted October 16, 2006)
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The 7 Worst Fonts
LMNOP: America's Most Fonted: The 7 Worst Fonts - I don't normally point to the "worst" stuff, but I loved this. America's most fonted! And... (Posted October 13, 2006)
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17 Free Quality Fonts
Smashing Magazine | 17 More Free Quality Fonts - because good, free fonts are always link-worthy!... (Posted October 11, 2006)
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Mis-printed Type
misprinted type 3.0_ art, design and type (1998-2005) Eduardo Recife - an excellent source for freeware and commercial grunge fonts.... (Posted October 10, 2006)
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Better Fonts: An easier way to find fonts
If you've ever spent time scrolling through pages and pages of font samples, you'll appreciate the one-page simplicity of Better Fonts. Just select the... (Posted September 19, 2006)
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FontFinder Finds Fonts Fast
FontFinder.ws (find fonts fast) is not a font repository, but rather a font search engine. A great way to search a lot of font... (Posted September 7, 2006)
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Online Font Tester
Font Tester - Online Font Comparison Tool - Preview Fonts - Compare Screen Type - not much to say beyond that title! A great resource... (Posted August 19, 2006)
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Urban Fonts
Urban Fonts. Download Free Fonts and Free Dingbats for PC and MAC - another handy font bookmark.... (Posted July 16, 2006)
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OFFSite Free Fonts Site
OFFSite - a worthy addition to your bookmarks for all your font needs.... (Posted June 28, 2006)
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9800 Fonts for Free
I didn't count them, so I have to take their word for it but there are definitely a lot of them. And a handy font... (Posted May 26, 2006)
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Installed Fonts Survey Results
Code Style: Top forty font survey results for Windows, Mac and Unix family fonts combined - recently updated, this survey charts the percentage of users... (Posted May 5, 2006)
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A huge list of Freeware Font Sites
Graphics N Graphic Design Blog Huge List of 200 Freeware Font Sites n Font Types n Formats - really huge. Another site to bookmark for... (Posted January 18, 2006)
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25 Best License-Free Fonts
Vitaly Friedman | Blog: 25 Best License-Free Quality Fonts - a lot of good font choices here, in a variety of styles.... (Posted January 1, 2006)
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Favorite Fonts of 2005
Our Favorite Fonts of 2005 Part 1 | Typographica - a nice list and some I hadn't discovered yet.... (Posted December 27, 2005)
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20 Best License-Free Fonts
Vitaly Friedman | Blog: 20 Best License-Free Official Fonts - nice list!... (Posted October 16, 2005)
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Type Navigator
If you're looking for a font, trying to identify a font or just generally in to fonts, the TypeNavigator is a great bookmark.... (Posted January 16, 2005)
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Free Fonts
Free Fonts search and download engine - a nice way to find fonts.... (Posted December 24, 2004)
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Typewriter Fonts
Typewriter Fonts have a certain charm, if you're looking for something different.... (Posted February 25, 2004)
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Fonts
On snot and fonts - I don't name em, I just bookmark them ; ) A whole lot of font links, nicely categorized. [via Veer:... (Posted November 5, 2003)
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Font Bookmarks
Bitmap Fonts is a nice collection of pixel fonts and Font Garden is just a nice collection. If you find yourself needing to identify a... (Posted January 25, 2003)
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Fonts
Gimmefonts is a great font resource. Unfortunately, some of the cool features have been disabled due to recent misuse. Still a great site though. I... (Posted January 6, 2003)
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Fonts Organized
If you love fonts (and who doesn't ;), check out Kristine's latest project. - Kristine's Font Organization. Very nice, Kristine!. I can highly recommend the... (Posted December 4, 2002)
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