Shapecatcher.com: Unicode Character Recognition. Modern magazine for web-designers and developers. 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.
Identifont - Identify fonts by appearance, find fonts by name. WhatTheFont! " MyFonts. Twenty-Six Types of Animals by Jeremy Pettis. The Font-Face Rule and Useful Web Font Tricks - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement The possibility of embedding any font you like into websites via @font-face is an additional stylistic device which promises to abolish the monotony of the usual system fonts.
It surely would be all too easy if there was only one Web font format out there. Instead, there’s quite a variety, as you will get to know in this article. This quick introduction to @font-face will lead you towards a guide through the @font-face kit generator. If you want to make Web use of your already licensed desktop fonts, read up on how to embed them from your own server. Web Font Formats EOT, TTF, OTF, CFF, AFM, LWFN, FFIL, FON, PFM, PFB, WOFF, SVG, STD, PRO, XSF, and the list goes on. TrueType This format was developed in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe’s Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. OpenType Microsoft and Adobe teamed up in developing this font format. OpenType fonts with TrueType Outlines (OpenType TT) and OpenType fonts with PostScript Outlines (OpenType PS) @font-face Revolution. ALPHABET. Alphabet: An Exhibition of Hand-Drawn Lettering and Experimental Typography ALPHABET GALLERY Below are selected samples of some of the alphabets shown in the exhibition.
Complete character sets (A-Z) of each alphabet in the show can be seen in the exhibition catalog. ANDREW BYROM / INTERIORS / 2003 A set of 26 table and chair frames built from steel tubing, Interiors forms a lowercase alphabet when viewed from certain angles. While some of the letters such as the h, m, and b look like basic chairs or tables, others like the e, t, and x become abstract, rather than functional, furniture. Fabrication: Joel Wolter LUKE RAMSEY AND A. APIRAT INFAHSAENG / SEVEN BOARD OF CUNNING / 2004 Constructed with Chinese Tangram puzzle tiles, Seven Board of Cunning takes the concept of Tangrams--that the tiles may be arranged into a variety of shapes--and applies it to typography, creating multiple versions of each letter. THEO A. 30 New Free High-Quality Fonts - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Every now and then we look around, select fresh high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview.
The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and find them so that you don’t have to. In this selection, we’re pleased to present Piron, Nobile, St Marie, Code, Arcus, Crimson Text, Quadranta, Juice, Prociono, Mr Jones, Ibarra Real and various useful symbol fonts. Please note that some fonts are for personal use only and are clearly marked as such. New Free High-Quality Fonts Piron1 Piron is a highly legible typeface, very well suited to any display or text usage: Web, print (especially magazines), brochures, logos, posters, flyers, motion graphics.
St Ryde Regular2 (Registration required, PDF Specimen3) St Ryde is a sans-serif, very casual typeface, that works perfect in your bodycopy within the regular weights. Installing TTF Fonts in GNOME Linux. ModernMantra. ...t.y.p.o.r.g.a.n.i.s.m... Mezzoblue § design, typography, and the web: live from vancouver, b.c., canada. Information design.