Something Different
This week instead of presenting one or two featured fonts, let's explore hundreds of them. Sound good? Keep reading to find where all those fabulous fonts are hiding.

Featured Fab Fonts #1
On the forum someone asked where they could find free Postscript (Type 1) fonts. It's true that the vast majority of free fonts are TrueType (and most for the PC). But our members turned up some locations that have those elusive free Postscript fonts - and that includes PC and Mac versions. The best, in my opinion, is Apostropic Laboratories where you'll find free fonts in multiple versions from designers like the ever-prolific Graham Meade, CybaPee, WolfBainX, and Derek Vogelpohl of ShyFonts.

Speaking of ShyFonts, I featured some of Derek's designs last week but was reminded of some news that had slipped my mind at the time. ShyFonts has closed. While Derek does his designing over at The Lab, TypOasis has preserved the entire ShyFonts collection 'for posterity' (or as long the Web lasts).

The Sites: Postscript Fonts | ShyFonts at TypOasis

Featured Fab Fonts #2
Are you passionate about Typewriter-style fonts or want to find every font that even remotely suggests Star Trek? While some large free font sites have sections devoted to specific font themes, there are more treasures found in those sites that specialize in just one or two themes (most free, some for pay). While Typewriter and Sci-Fi are the most prolific themes, you'll also find others such as fonts that mimic the logos or album covers of musical bands or fonts from horror movies.

The Sites: Themed Fonts

Favorite Fonts
Whether you are a teacher or just want to create materials with that schoolwork look, these are the most popular school fonts on the site right now.

• Learning Curve BV


• Jarman


• Print Clearly & Print Clearly Dashed


• Penmanship Print


• Zyia Learns Letters

Font Library

TypeTalk
The About Type & Fonts forum is a great resource for identifying mystery fonts, locating missing fonts, and problem-solving. Look at what we've been talking about lately.

The Price is NOT Right
XAVIANA tells us, "I find the prices of some fonts terribly expensive." Do you? I weighed in with my opinion as did others and then (as often happens in our forum) the thread moved into a discussion of "finding" fonts we already owned and the versatility of some typefaces.
So tell us, would YOU pay $100 for a single font?

Embedding Fonts & the Virtues of Optima
Simon says "I have recently discovered... that Optima cannot be embedded into PDFs due to licencing restrictions." Members discuss this problem with possible solutions and further into the thread R.S. and Max wax poetic over the virtues and shortcomings of various versions of Optima.
Have any font embedding tricks? Or, just pick up some nuggets of type history.

Type Tip
Lost a font with a name that starts with CAC? It came from the Create-a-card program. Check your disks. — a tip from our forum

Lost & Found and a Font Mystery
Post pictures or URLs to get a font ID, share your favorite font resources. Our Forum Font Finders can find almost anything. But we had trouble with this mystery font (A & S are the only letter samples):

Update: It has since been identified as Fleurish Script.