Free fonts?

alexgeek · September 2nd, 2007, 07:09 PM

anyone know a really good place for free fonts?
i don't mean go google "free fonts" for me,
i mean does anyone here use a site for free fonts that they would recommend
thanks

Pádraig · September 2nd, 2007, 07:30 PM

Here's a list of useful sites.

alexgeek · September 2nd, 2007, 07:38 PM

Great link cheers

pa007 · September 2nd, 2007, 07:39 PM

Urban fonts have some nice ones (and a great site). However I'd encourage you to pay for your fonts. You don't have to pay Veer's prices to get excellent quality fonts. A lot of free fonts are very, very poor and require a lot of tweaking to get right.

Pete.

alexgeek · September 2nd, 2007, 07:59 PM

i'm skint

Ross · September 3rd, 2007, 05:27 AM

I get most of the ones I use from http://www.dafont.com/. It then just takes a small amount of time to change them to how I want them to look.

Lchad · September 3rd, 2007, 08:55 AM

I download free fonts all the time and have never had a problem with quality.

alexgeek · September 3rd, 2007, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Lchad

I download free fonts all the time and have never had a problem with quality.

Ditto

the fonts that came with adobe creative suite premium were quite good aswell

pa007 · September 3rd, 2007, 01:39 PM

I think that there are some great free-fonts knocking around and some very poor paid-for fonts but if you buy your fonts from a good font foundry they don't just work, they stand out. A font is a means of displaying text but it is also much more than that in my opinion. People obsess about the colours, the layout, graphic elements and people will pay for stock photography. I believe if people took a similar attitude towards typography then the quality would be so much higher. I also believe we should support budding typographers. I noticed a thread about 'should we work for free, or whatever yet people, from a similar field, are unwillling to offer the financial support that they demand. It can take years to perfect a font, which then may only sell for 30-40 dollars. I believe this sort of work should be rewarded. I understand if people have little money, professionally created fonts can be expensive but if you are being payed for what you are doing then I don't think there is any excuse for not buying high-quality fonts or at least donating something to the designer of your free font.

Head over to somewhere like Veer and tell me if you still think the majority of free fonts match up to their quality.

Pete.

Lchad · September 3rd, 2007, 07:46 PM

I hear you, but I'm not interested in that position. I will use all the free fonts I want so that I keep my overhead down, which in turn keeps costs down for my clients.

alexgeek · September 3rd, 2007, 07:52 PM

If people want to give free fonts,
i'll take them

pa007 · September 3rd, 2007, 09:40 PM

I do understand people using free fonts as there are some good free ones and paid for ones can be expensive. They can be very expensive.

Pete.

alexgeek · September 3rd, 2007, 09:56 PM

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Originally Posted by pa007

very expensive.

Pete.

jesus christ
who in their right mind would pay almost $700 for that crap?

pa007 · September 3rd, 2007, 10:07 PM

That is a fabulous font and you get 25 different faces with it but it is expensive, I agree.

I love this one though, it may not seem anything special but I've struggled to find a really good classic font, like this. I just bought it I like it so much.

Pete.

alexgeek · September 3rd, 2007, 10:20 PM

i just couldn't pay that much for a font.
i'd kill myself

do they like a really really curly handwriting one on there?

pa007 · September 3rd, 2007, 10:36 PM

Do you mean do they have a curly handwriting one?

Pete.

alexgeek · September 3rd, 2007, 10:40 PM

yeah but like over the top curly

Lchad · September 3rd, 2007, 10:47 PM

Quote:

They can be very expensive.

Switching back to the paid photography sites.. that is similar to Getty Images. I just wouldn't pay their prices when I can find some that do the trick for just a little cost.

I don't mind buying good quality fonts but I usually won't pay more than $20-40. I did buy a complete package recently of over 200 fonts for around $200. But honestly the funnest ones are the free ones.

pa007 · September 3rd, 2007, 10:49 PM

How about these:

Valentine
Marmalade
Buffet Script
Debonair
P22 Zaner Two Pro
P22 Zaner Three Pro
Burgues Script

Check those out, the last few are pretty over-the-top.

Pete.

alexgeek · September 3rd, 2007, 10:51 PM

thanks for that

ones like those i think would actually be worth the money