Museo Slab 500 – Free Font Download from Exljbris - imjustcreative logo design & brand identity designer | creative logo designer The Museo family of fonts from font foundry, Exljbris, have earned a well used place in my font collection, purchasing the entire Museo and Museo Sans family was a no-brainer. Seeing Museo Slab come along is just the icing on the cake. As with the other Museo fonts, Jos kindly makes the 500 and 500 italic style available as a free download. Download Download Museo 500 & Museo 500 Italic direct from MyFonts. You need to register with MyFonts, then add the 500 and 500 Italic to your shopping basket and proceed as you would usually do when buying something. Download More Free Fonts via IJC Over the last few months I have been amassing a neat collection of quality free and open source fonts for download. Categories: Free Fonts, Typography This post written by Graham Smith Follow @thelogosmith
45 Outstanding Free Vintage Fonts « Noupe Oct 11 2009 In his famous 1908 essay, ‘Ornament and Crime,’ modern architect Adolf Loos wrote: “The evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects.” This pronouncement banished many of the frilly, decorative fonts of centuries past from the realm of High Design. Fast forward to the present day: Web 3.0 is awash in enough sleek sans serif and classic roman typefaces to make designers long for the typographic indulgences of yesteryear. Harness the power of the antique and make your graphics pop with one of these vintage-inspired fonts, which have returned to the spotlight both in print and online. From the Wild West and Victoriana to the Avant Garde and Calligraphy, there are plenty of styles to choose from. Wood Type and Display Fonts Carnivalee Freakshow This distressed, wood-type-inspired font has the shabby charm of an old sideshow banner. Dirty Ames This is another beautiful distressed font that draws inspiration from 19th century display types.
Fonts Used In Logos of Popular Websites This roundup was gathered through a combination of top notch Google-ing and What the Font?-ing. Midway through my travels across the internet, I stumbled upon a Web 2.0 logo font roundup, which is worth a look as well. You’ve seen these fonts, now you get to learn their names: Twitter – Pico Alphabet (Modified) Digg – FFF Forward (Modified) Cork’d – Triplex Vimeo – Black Rose Grooveshark – FF Nuvo Envato – Agenda Italic Tuts+ Network – Lubalin Graph Last.fm – National (Modified) Technorati – Neo Sans Medium Flickr – Frutiger Black Purevolume – Avenir Book Youtube – Alternate Gothic No. 2 Basecamp – Whitney Facebook – Klavika (Modified) Engadget – Engadget Font (Close Match) Google – Catull BQ Yahoo – Yahoo Font Hulu – Futura MDd BT (Modified) Bebo – Neuropol (Modified) TMZ – Amelia The ONION – Eagle Bold Mapquest – Cheap Motel Linkedin – Myriad Pro Bold Skype – Helvetica Rounded Bold Revision 3 – VAG Rounded Black Hunted, Tagged and Released Back Into the Wild Want more famous fonts? Google+
How to use @font-face A quick guide on how to use CSS @font-face in order to get custom fonts on any web page. Firstly, you’ll need to find a nice-looking, free font in order to use it on your web page. Graublau Sans Web by Georg Seifert is a perfect font for our example since it’s free and supports many languages. In order to support as many as possible browsers and devices, we first need to create and then use different formats of our font (.ttf/.otf, .eot, .woff, .svg etc.). After you convert the font in all formats, create a directory named “fonts” and copy all the fonts formats inside it. @font-face loads all necessary formats and we set the font-family the same way we would do normally. It’s best not to use the original font name (e.g. Next, we insert our simple markup: <h1>This is a heading with some custom font. That’s about it!
30 Free Fonts Which Are Perfect For Professional Logo Designs FreebiesBy TimothyBlake · On September 7, 2009 A Great compilation of Creative Nerds favourite Free Fonts Which Are Perfect and suitable For creating Professional Logo Designs. A great collections of fonts which are perfect for designers who are designing on a small budget. 2. Sapir 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. squaretypeB 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. font kravitz 17. zagfont 18. 19. 20. 21. delicious 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. file 28. surrounding 29. 30. Share 63
25 New Free High-Quality Fonts - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Every now and then we look around, select fresh free high-quality 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 projects. We search for them and find them so that you don’t have to. In this selection, we’re pleased to present Pompadour Numeral Set, Lato, Crimson Text, Espinosa Nova, Musa Ornata, Spatha Sans, ColorLines, Roke1984, Neuton, Avro, Baurete and other fonts. New High-Quality Free Fonts Pompadour Numeral Set1 (.eps, released under Creative Commons) A beautiful numeral font released by Andy Mangold under a Creative Commons license. Lato2 (open-source sans serif) Lato is a san-serif typeface family. Crimson Text3 “Crimson Text is a font family for book production in the tradition of beautiful old-style typefaces. Color Lines5 This decorative font can be used for a variety of products, such as posters, packaging and label design. Further Resources Last Click
20 Free Fonts Just Perfect for Retro and Vintage Designs Awww, vintage and retro style designes are simply awesome. By using various design elements such as textures, patterns and brushes to add an aged or used appearance designers can easily pull of timeless look. To compliment retro/vintage appearance it’s also important to use proper typography from the time period you are trying to represent. To help you out, I’ve rounded up 20 perfect retro and vintage fonts to use in your designs. I’m hoping that you found at least one new font to add to your collection.
Design Informer - 25 of the Best Free Fonts from Deviant Art 104 Free Fonts for Web Designers and Logo Artists | Fonts It’s very essential for Designers to have an good understanding of typography and selection as the importance of typography in design can’t be neglected. The proper selection of typography can convert your normal design into very attractive piece of art. Among other things, effective typography manages to achieve three necessary objectives of web designing are Look, Appearance and Outcome which helps you to keep apart from normal wave. As we know that typography can be used as a way of mutual understanding between you and your users. Below you’ll find Over 100 Free Downloadable Fonts for Web Designers and Logo Artists by which you can save money and focus on making great applications. The basic purpose behind this post is to show you Popular, Professional and most importantly Free Downloadable font types to save your time searching them online. You can also find some related free references at the end of the post. You may be interested in the following related articles as well. 02. 04.