Free Fonts over at Urbanfonts
Are you tired of the same old fonts available to you through your word processor?
Do you want to make a logo but need a font with a little more edge or pizzazz?
Do you balk at paying stiff prices for the fonts you REALLY want?
Enter Urbanfonts.
Urbanfonts provides free fonts that are available for download. No membership. No cost. Free!
Free fonts are organized by category. For example, Futuristic, Handwritten and Gothic contains a number of fonts that fit that description (more or less; some fonts are hard to throw into any category). Hovering over a category will provide a mini-preview of the a font that belongs in that category. Once inside a category all fonts are provided in a very large type size that make the font easy to read. Hovering over a font provides an alphabetical list of all letters in both upper and lower case. Font are available for both Windows and Mac.
How many free fonts are there to choose from? Well, when viewing the Random category at 12 fonts per page, there are 539 pages. Doing the rough math approximates 6438 fonts.
Urbanfonts also offers a catalog of commercial fonts that are available for purchase.
The beginner can feast not only on the free fonts, but the free font education via the Urbanfont blog. I am not a graphic designer (I did take two classes in college though). So the article on the Scourge of Arial I found fascinating and the post on Typography 101 is essential reading for the graphic design beginner.
If your looking for font ideas for your new website logo, check out Urbanfonts first. There is plenty of selection there to satisfy most font needs.
Disclosure: Paid Review
Posted by Paul Flyer on Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 in Graphic Design
Tinsley Says:
July 29th, 2007 at 9:45 am
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Paul Flyer Says:
September 26th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Thanks for the resource…and its ok…i’ll let you plug your own site