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Quirky Lunchbox Typeface (1,500+ glyphs) - only $17. Have you ever had to eat your words? Well, if you're using the right font, that can be easier than you'd think. Take a look at the scrumptious Lunchbox Typeface by Kimmy Design! This tasty morsel of a font offers over 1,500 different characters to build an unlimited number of letter combinations. Hand-drawn and somewhat sketchy, Lunchbox is a true delight for all the senses.

Lunchbox TypeFace Highlights: Fun, Quirky Hand-Drawn FontLooking for a different typeface to really make your next project stand out? Check Out What Lunchbox Brings to the Table: Pricing: You'd normally pay $60 for full Lunchbox Family (for either the Desktop or Web fonts), but for a limited time only, your bill comes to just $17 for the complete family of this tasty typeface! Click the BUY NOW button to choose your preference and deliver the goods to your typeface today! Deal terms: Delivered as an instant download after completing your purchase.Includes updates. Buy now $17. 10 Great Google Font Combinations You Can Copy. The average man considers which flavor of Doritos will taste good with his Heineken. The sophisticated man considers which cheese will pair well with his choice of wine.

The designer of course considers which two fonts will look great on the same page. Today we’re going to use the Google Font API as a playground for mixing fonts and finding ideal pairings. You’ll be able to skim through and instantly grab out selections that you think are appropriate for your projects. A couple of times each month, we re-publish one of our popular posts from the archives. Why Google Fonts? The web font game was up in the air a few years ago. Here’s why @font-face wins. Now, within the @font-face world there are many competitors. However, I’ve used this solution several times on Design Shack before so I wanted to switch things up today and use something else. Quick Tips for Combining Fonts Before we get started, there are a few basic rules that you can keep in mind when combining fonts. Use Font Families. 19 More Free Quality Fonts.

Advertisement Over the last days we’ve decided to take a look at new fonts and choose the most beautiful ones. In fact, many new fonts occured – some of them just weren’t available for download one year ago, some of them were created over the last 12 months. The results are listed below – the most beautiful fonts, created by the open-source community and free for personal, academic and (sometimes) commercial use. The disclaimers are changing from time to time, so you better first take a close look at disclaimer before using the font in a commercial project. “19 More Best Free Quality Fonts” contains only new fonts. Links checked: May/20 2008 – 3 Fonts deleted). 16 More Best Free Quality Fonts 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. mgOpen Cosmetica20 (freeware): Description21, Download 9. mgOpen Moderna22 (freeware): Description23, Download 10. jGaramond24 (freeware): Description25, Download 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 17.

Links for further visiting and reading: It's done. Ubuwaits/beautiful-web-type. Beautiful web type — the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory. Lucius Annaeus Seneca60 AD Among the numerous faults of those who pass their lives recklessly and without due reflexion, my good friend Liberalis, I should say that there is hardly any one so hurtful to society as this, that we neither know how to bestow or how to receive a benefit. It follows from this that benefits are badly invested, and become bad debts: in these cases it is too late to complain of their not being returned, for they were thrown away when we bestowed them. Nor need we wonder that while the greatest vices are common, none is more common than ingratitude: for this I see is brought about by various causes. The first of these is, that we do not choose worthy persons upon whom to bestow our bounty, but although when we are about to lend money we first make a careful enquiry into the means and habits of life of our debtor, and avoid sowing seed in a worn-out or unfruitful soil, yet without any discrimination we scatter our benefits at random rather than bestow them.

Best 20 webfonts from Google Web Fonts and @font-face embedding. At the moment there are several ways to use non-system fonts on a website. We will focus on the two least complicated, least expensive systems, Google Web Fonts and the @font-face rule. Fear not, we have not ruled out other paid methods such as Typekit, Fonts.com Web Fonts, Fontdeck, Webtype, WebINK or Fontspring for future posts as they certainly offer high quality typefaces and deserve to be considered.

It’s important to be aware that web fonts can generate inadequate visualizations on operating systems which have subpixel rendering turned off in the case of Windows XP. They can also be represented differently depending on the browser used to visualize them. The aim of this post is to facilitate the choice of a series of fonts (out of the hundreds available) whose technical and visual characteristics make them more readable and compatible with a wide variety of devices, browsers and operating systems. Basically, there are two implementation models: 1. 2. Web font embedding services 1. Fonts. Foundation Icon Fonts 3. Use 283 icons with 1 font A custom collection of 283 icons that are stored in a handy web font. View All Icons » Style 'em with CSS A couple lines of CSS and the right markup will get you going in no time. How to Use Them » Create infinite variations Easily customize these icons to be any size, color and style in CSS.

How these were built Here at ZURB, we created these icons with specific standards which gives a cohesive voice and style to develop an amazing font set for everyone to love, enjoy and use on their website. Geometric All icons are made with basic shapes like triangles, squares, rectangles and circles. After converting these vector icons into a font, we’ve given you the ability to have an endless number of sizes, colors and styles for the icons that you need which could be customized and stylized via CSS. How to use them We've made it super easy for you to get going with these icons! Merge in the styles Write your markup We've used an <i> for icon elements. Style away! Thoughts? 10 Great Google Font Combinations You Can Copy.