The League of Moveable Type. Lost Type Co-op | Browse Fonts. Taking A Second Look At Free Fonts. Advertisement Once thought of as amateurish by professional designers, free and open-source fonts have gone through something of a renaissance in just the last few years. The quality of available free fonts has increased dramatically. To be frank, free fonts don’t have a good reputation, and often they are knock-offs of thoroughly crafted, already established typefaces.
So is it time for professional designers to take a second look? First, A Story Early in my design career, around 2003, I wanted to purchase the font DIN for a project at work. I popped the CD in my computer and found a collection of the most horrendous fonts you could imagine. Nowhere to be found was DIN or, for that matter, any font that a professional designer would actually use.
Fast-forward to 2014. Where Do Free Fonts Come From? Why Is Having Multiple Weights With Italics So Important? To set body copy properly, a font family requires four variants: normal, italic, bold and bold italic. Alegreya Websites using Alegreya. Home | Design in the browser with web fonts and real content — Typecast.
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