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Post number 7626

FPN — Fri, 11 May 2001 09:34:43 -0800

Everyone knows Chank, but there are literally thousands of indie font producers out there, many of whom offer amazing fonts for free. Any MeFi denizens care to share their favorites? The more obscure the better, but I'll start with a relatively well known house of Test Pilot Collective.

By: hobbes

hobbes — Fri, 11 May 2001 09:37:13 -0800

fuelfonts

By: Reggie452

Reggie452 — Fri, 11 May 2001 09:39:19 -0800

Try Font 42. It's a one-man site with fonts like "Carson Daly is Evil," "Janet Reno Lapdance," "Britney in a Blender" and "Sam Brown is My Hero."

By: dogwelder

dogwelder — Fri, 11 May 2001 09:44:20 -0800

Larabie Fonts has a whole mess of fonts - lots of freeware and shareware.

By: greensweater

greensweater — Fri, 11 May 2001 10:00:03 -0800

I lost the best font site I ever saw, along the lines of Chris Ware's retro-print stylings, and I couldn't find it again! I remember it was brown, with woodcut ornaments for forward & back, with many pages of old poster & ad typefaces. If anyone could help me retrieve it, well, I think I'd kiss them.

By: Dreama

Dreama — Fri, 11 May 2001 10:07:13 -0800

Typearound has a nice bunch of fun fonts, all freeware. I especially like the site because it's the brainchild of Stephen Deken of Diary-X fame.

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Fri, 11 May 2001 10:09:31 -0800

Great post! I love the fonts at ChannelZero. They've only got about 20 fonts, but I've used them all at one time or another.

By: neuroshred

neuroshred — Fri, 11 May 2001 10:16:07 -0800

fontomas. They put up one free font a week. It's only available until the next font is up. They'll email you when there's a new font, and they are going to publish a CD with all their fonts later this year.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Fri, 11 May 2001 10:19:55 -0800

i like nofont. not only does andreas have cool fonts, he experiments with text in ways that amaze me. plus, he's very personable. he offered me all of his fonts as they became available via email written directly to me. i'm a sucker for a nice person on the web.

By: Erendadus

Erendadus — Fri, 11 May 2001 10:21:30 -0800

Are there any great, undiscovered display and print fonts? Is there something cool for the default in Word or the Variable and Fixed-width setting in IE or Netscape?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 11 May 2001 10:47:27 -0800

Lots of font links in today's Gleanings.

By: ewwgene

ewwgene — Fri, 11 May 2001 11:11:17 -0800

ok i got a few. free: gl:tch freeware fonts Pay: scanjam lineto letterheadfonts

By: howa2396

howa2396 — Fri, 11 May 2001 11:12:59 -0800

I've always liked Divide by Zero fonts, disturbed.com, and Toxic Type by Dobi.

By: howa2396

howa2396 — Fri, 11 May 2001 11:18:26 -0800

WOW. that gl:tch freeware fonts site is awesome. It lets you type in any sample text and generates an example of the fonts with that text. Very cool.

By: iceberg273

iceberg273 — Fri, 11 May 2001 12:00:15 -0800

I've been known to make my own fonts. Are there any other amateur fontographers (alphabetician, whatever) on MeFi?

By: sonofsamiam

sonofsamiam — Fri, 11 May 2001 12:06:26 -0800

I made a lil' truetype font a couple years ago. It's not very good, but hey. It was fun.

By: Gilbert

Gilbert — Fri, 11 May 2001 12:12:58 -0800

Not really obscure, but I've always liked fontalicious.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 11 May 2001 12:32:23 -0800

iceberg, Jo makes fonts on her site.

By: iceberg273

iceberg273 — Fri, 11 May 2001 12:32:57 -0800

Hey sonofsamiam - there are umlauts on the n! :) You are right; it is fun! I always find the lowercase s to be the most enjoyable to draw. Well, that, and the lowercase i and the lowercase k. I keep waiting and waiting for the world to adopt CSS-2, so that I can use my fonts on my weblog.
(Here are the fonts that I've made available publicly: karlfont and Neuromuscular Junction. Like 'em or not, they're free.)

By: iceberg273

iceberg273 — Fri, 11 May 2001 12:36:25 -0800

Thanks, Matt.

By: iceberg273

iceberg273 — Fri, 11 May 2001 12:37:59 -0800

Of course, Jo's page lead to the Lego Font Creator. Yay!

By: jga

jga — Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:11 -0800

dincTYPE has long been a favorite and not only because they've sent me tons of free junk. The site's down for remodeling at the moment, but they link to their equally sexy side projects and should be back soon.

By: dogwelder

dogwelder — Fri, 11 May 2001 13:49:04 -0800

Iceberg- like sonofsamiam, I've made a few fonts (evil self-link here). It really helped me appreciate how difficult it is to make a good font. God bless those folks who do it for free!

By: doggbreath

doggbreath — Fri, 11 May 2001 14:08:37 -0800

Hi guys, another cool font page you gotta visit is www.pizzadude.dk - This "dude" has got (I think) about 200 fonts! And a great way of showing them! - Johnny

By: modofo

modofo — Fri, 11 May 2001 14:19:27 -0800

Circuitously through Textism, see Typoasis.

By: doggbreath

doggbreath — Fri, 11 May 2001 14:36:30 -0800

Uhm...It was my intention that it should've been a clickable link. Sorry, see if this helps: www.pizzadude.dk

By: patricking

patricking — Fri, 11 May 2001 15:38:54 -0800

i'm represented by thirstype and in europe. but the coolest stuff around is at fontalicious. that guy cranks out the best candypop fonts you've ever seen. well-crafted stuff produced in record quantities (considering it's a single person).

By: patricking

patricking — Fri, 11 May 2001 15:42:07 -0800

woop. there's supposed to be a fontshop germany link in there to make that sentence make sense. my bad.

By: patricking

patricking — Fri, 11 May 2001 15:55:31 -0800

ooo, and i totally forgot about eyesaw. this guy's amazing. (that was me making penance for an accidental doublepost)

By: crunchland

crunchland — Fri, 11 May 2001 16:08:43 -0800

ShyFonts makes several very cool fonts that I use often. The bad news is that they've apparently closed up shop... (you can still download all of their great fonts, though.) The good news is that it looks like the brains (?) behind ShyFonts has moved on to Apostrophic Laboratories, another font foundry.

By: gamera

gamera — Fri, 11 May 2001 17:28:56 -0800

04 has some nice bitmap-style fonts, if you like that sort of thing.

By: timothompson

timothompson — Fri, 11 May 2001 17:56:29 -0800

I like Bureau Destruct, makers of Plakatbau from Radiohead Kid A.

By: aniretac

aniretac — Fri, 11 May 2001 18:01:32 -0800

Closefonts has a freebie or two.

By: dsandl

dsandl — Fri, 11 May 2001 23:07:48 -0800

Don't forget the venerable fonthead designs, home of RedFive (hint: it was released at roughly the same time The Phantom Menace came out), Holstein, GoodDog, and other freefont classics.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Sat, 12 May 2001 01:45:45 -0800

i'm not sure what sort of reaction this will garner, but i'm gonna talk more about nofont, just 'cause i like it so much. nofont does neat-o graffiti-like fonts. however, nofont also goes beyond a typical font and creates fonts like this, recording a character set in different tones of voice, then creating a font out of it. other 'experiments' include a font for when you read on your side (you know, can't read opposite page), architecture in typeography (and the possibilities of the reverse), and more! man, i dont know. i just think this is way cool. oh, and the site design is grand.

By: davidgentle

davidgentle — Sat, 12 May 2001 04:46:40 -0800

Do any of you font experts have any idea what the font used on the cover of The Smasing Pumpkins Machina 2 is (as seen here)? And where I might be able to download it? Or something like it?

By: webchick

webchick — Sat, 12 May 2001 10:15:11 -0800

Hi, greensweater... Could you be thinking of the fonts of the amazing Pat Broderick of Rotodesign/Modern Humorist fame? ...or perhaps the luverly type stylings of the font diner? webchick

By: silusGROK

silusGROK — Mon, 14 May 2001 10:26:47 -0800

A suggestion for all those font lovers out there, a blog on typography! Lines & Splines.