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Playtype | Typographer's Glossary
Serif: Serif's are semi-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols.
A Vintage or retro style design is meant to transport it’s audience decades into the past. Designers try to do this by using various design elements such as textures and patterns from a certain time period. But it’s also important to use accurate typography from the time period you are trying to represent. In this post, we’ve rounded up 30 excellent vintage and retro fonts that you can use in your designs. You’ll notice that these font’s range from a 1920′s look all the way up to the retro typography style of the 50′s.
30 Fonts Perfect for Vintage and Retro Style Design | Freebies
It has been long since we posted our last free font collection (see: 20 Free Handwritten Fonts and 21 Incredible Fonts That Shouldn’t Be Free ), so we decided it’s a high time to do one more. The use of retro and vintage themes in design is still very popular, so it’s always good to have a big font collection. That’s why we handpicked 26 beautiful and stylish free retro fonts .
26 Beautiful Free Retro Fonts
50 Fresh Free Fonts of 2010
Though there’s a broad variety of fonts available for download online, designers keep on tracing the fresh ones to enhance their design copy, a website, brochure, or even an advertisement in a brand new an’ awesome way. Still, the free stuff could not always boast of good quality – premium goodies always demand some kind of money investment. However, now it’s possible to find the appropriate font that’s free, clear, beautiful, and effective for design purposes. Many great designers are now offering professional quality fonts completely for free. Today’s round-up actually goes outside the standard font variety. We’ve managed to gather a collection of 50 novelty styled free fonts which you can instantly download and use to add a powerful impact for your designs.