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Featured Fab Font
Envision the cover of a Dr. Suess book and you might imagine SuessFont from the Font Mart. It's a playful serif font with varying sizes of letters that look as if they're seen through a distorted magnifying glass. Great poster font.
Download: Windows [TrueType] | Macintosh [TrueType] | Macintosh [Type 1]
Web site: Font Mart - a few more free Mac and PC fonts.
Commercial Picks
CastleType says they are "one of the few foundries developing well-designed display typefaces for languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet." Pick up a few nice Cyrillic fonts for typesetting in Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian and Croatian.
U&lc | Mac/PC | Postscript/TrueType | Online ordering available with immediate downloads
Font Factoid
According to Laurie McCanna, "Anything that you can create an outline with can become a typeface.
You can start with either:
• Original art you've drawn, or another source like a very old book (remember, it's not copyright free in the US unless it's older than 75 years old!)
• A bitmap, preferably in high resolution, or
• Vector art, such as a Corel Draw, .EPS, or Adobe Illustrator file."
How to make type
An About Desktop Publishing How to Make Fonts link
Favorite Fonts
Let's look at the top 10 font favorites the first week of February 2001:
Exmouth -- Handwriting/Script
Bridgnorth -- Decorative/Calligraphy
CommScript -- Handwriting/Script
Loki Cola -- Handwriting/Script
Learning Curve -- Handwriting/School Fonts
Alison -- Handwriting/Script
4YEO Stamp -- Decorative/Stencils/Distressed
Coolvetica -- Text/Sans Serif
SF Americana Dreams -- Decorative/Retro: Neon Chrome
Blood of Dracula -- Decorative/Halloween
Font Library
TypeTalk
Looking for a specific font or font-related software? Have a problem with font installation or looking for ideas for your next project? There's a forum just for you: About Type & Fonts.
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