Linktastic Friday: Free Fonts

Here are some free font websites:

Dingbat Depot
Search Free Fonts
Abstract Fonts
Better Fonts
dafont
25 geekiest free fonts
1001 Free Fonts
Urban Fonts
Free at MyFonts


Enjoy! And, remember, not more than two fonts per project!

A note for MS Word Users...

Simply put your message in big, bold letters—use colors and all caps if you must. Just please, please leave Word Art alone.

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Never put a script font in all caps. It makes your message hard to read, looks inelegant, and, of course, all caps can read like you are YELLING. Also, it is rarely a good idea to mix two script fonts.

Free font for Halloween

Skull Font from Skull-a-day.
Saw it first on BoingBoing.

Other great fonts for Halloween include: Artistamp Medium, ReneLouis, Blood, Dead Ringer, Nosferatu, Scurlock, Vitriol, Mother Goose, Hellfire, Zombique, Spike Regular, Ogilvie, Cenobyte, Claw, A Lolita Scorned, Rothenburg Decorative, Bleeding Cowboys, and Fashyon.

...not to mention any blackletter font.

Name that font

It's happened to all of us designers. We are the third person to work on a project, and for some reason or another, the files on a brochure, etc. are not available. But, we still have to match that font. Now, maybe you are more gifted/attentive than I, but I can only identify about 30 typefaces by sight. So, what to do about those other 3 billion typefaces? Let identifont do it for you. They even have the font ready to purchase, after you have figured out which one it is.