Friday 18th of May 2012
LINKS
This section carries useful links to information about fonts and font technologies.(These links are provided by us out of courtesy. These web sites are in no way related to our company and these links do not imply any endorsement.)
ABOUT FONTS
Fonts Explained
Frequently asked questions about fonts A thorough compilation of information about fonts. Produced by Norman Walsh in August 1996.Typeface classification Classifications of type, what they look like and how they evolved.
FREE FONTS
1001fonts Download free fontsAbstract Fonts 10,000 Free Fonts for Download
Acid Fonts Home to over 4700 fonts for all you free fontaholics
All 4 Free Fonts Fantastic Freeware Fonts
DaFont Download free and shareware fonts
FontFreak Thousands of free fonts from over 300 different authors
Free Fonts Free Fonts search and download. Searchable database of 55,000 OpenType, TrueType and PostScript Type 1 fonts from Adobe, Linotype, Monotype, URW and free fonts archives.
Killer Fontz Twenty-four categories of free fonts
Macfonts.com Listing of 17 font sites
Master Fonts Cool fonts... and a lot more
Mike's Sketchpad Free fonts archive and graphics tutorials
COMMERCIAL FONTS
The Adobe Type Library offers an outstanding selection of more than 2,200 innovative fonts and classic styles.
Alias David James and Gareth Hague met in 1990, working together designing record sleeves for bands such as Soul ii Soul (Club Classics Volume 1), Neneh Cherry (Buffalo Stance) and Boy George (Tense Nervous Headache). Alias was formed in 1996 to design and market their typefaces. Alias also undertakes commissions for custom typeface and logotype design, services include designing custom type and digitising and amending existing typefaces.
Ascender® Corporation is a highly specialized enterprise supporting multilingual and custom font development, licensing and intellectual property consulting. This portfolio demonstrates the wide range of artistic and technical challenges.
Bitstream Fonts and Font Technology
CastleType CastleType is where you can browse, buy and securely download expertly crafted text, display and script fonts. Featuring more than 70 fonts for Mac and Windows computers in True Type, PostScript and OpenType formats. CastleType also provides custom type design services.
Comic Book Fonts Specialized digital font foundry for comic book fonts
Elsner + Flake The designers Veronika Elsner and Günther Flake represent two concepts and company departments. They see themselves primarily as the link between typeface design and font production technology. Founded in 1985, this German foundry's library contains some 2,500 fonts for Macintosh and PC.
The Font Bureau Founded in 1989 by noted publications designer and consultant Roger Black and type designer David Berlow to serve the emerging needs of microcomputer-based magazine and newspaper publishers seeking unique typographic identities.
FontCraft The Scriptorium Font Library is a collection of original typefaces, unusual display fonts, unique calligraphy and extraordinary adaptatios of hard to find antique typefaces from the early modern period to the start of the 20th century. We have over 250 fonts, and they are very different from what you've seen in other font collections.
All of our fonts are available for both the PC and the Macintosh and come in both Postscript and TrueType format.
FontHaus Secure ordering and delivery for more than 35,000 fonts from ITC Anna and Adobe Caslon to Linotype Zapfino. Macintosh and Windows fonts are available in PostScript and True Type font formats.
FontShop gives you the opportunity to search for, view and purchase over 30,000 typefaces, many of them available in up to 4 formats (Mac and PC PostScript, PC TrueType, Mac TrueType).
Fountain Fountain is an independent one-man foundry, owned and operated by Peter Bruhn.
The company is located in the heart of Malmö, a beautiful cityport in southwestern Sweden, known as the Scandinavian Ibiza.
Galapagos Design Group the highest quality type products and font customization services
House Industries House Industries has purchased one of the largest collections of film based display typography from New York-based Photo-Lettering, Inc. Photo-Lettering employed such design luminaries as Ed Benguiat and sold type drawn by the likes of Herb Lubalin, Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast.
Identifont A website designed to find a particular font. This link is a portal to over 150 publishers and foundries.
International Typeface Corporation (ITC) A library of more than 1,000 classic typefaces and innovative new designs
Larabie Fonts offers 384 free fonts for personal and commercial use in TrueType format. We display our fonts at www.MyFonts.com. If you need the same font in PostScript or OpenType format, you will find them offered at very low prices. Larabie Fonts are compatible with both Windows and Mac.
Letraset Creative opportunities
Linotype Fonts from classic to cool. Find and download over 5,500 high quality fonts at Linotype.com
Stone Type Foundry Fonts for text and display
T.26 Digital Type Foundry
RoosterTypes (International Typefounders Inc.) Steve Jackaman, a type and graphic arts expert with 30 years experience, started Red Rooster Typefounders (RRT) foundry in 1990 with a team of highly-skilled type designers, typographers and software experts. Over the next four years, this team designed and produced nearly 200 original and exclusive typestyles.
ShinnType ShinnType was founded in 1999 by Toronto-based, London-born art director and type designer Nick Shinn (1952). Prior to this, his type designs had been published by a number of companies, most notably in the FontFont library.
Typodermic In 1996, Ray Larabie began creating freeware fonts for Larabie Fonts. In the autumn of 2001, more than 300 fonts later, Ray quit the freeware scene and established Typodermic. Typodermic is available for custom work.
URW++ Development and marketing innovative font and software products
TYPOGRAPHY ORGANIZATIONS
TypeRight promotes typefaces as creative works and advocates their legal protection as intellectual propertyAssociation Typographique Internationale The premier worldwide organisation dedicated to type and typography. Founded in 1957, ATypI provides the structure for communication, information and action amongst the international type community
SOTA: The Society of Typographic Aficionados A non-profit organization devoted to type, typography, and the related arts
Type Directors Club To raise the standards of typography and related fields of the graphic arts, and to provide inspiration, simulate research, further education, and disseminate information relating to the typographic arts
Typophile Typophile is a free and open typographic community. They make available resources for type design, theory and technique. Typophile's aim is to foster greater awareness and provide a forum for designers and users.
Typographica. A Journal of Typography A daily journal of typography featuring news, observations, and open commentary on fonts and typographic design.
About OpenType OpenType® is a new cross-platform font file format developed jointly by Adobe and Microsoft.
NEWS GROUPS
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FONT DESIGNERS
Jim Parkinson Designed famous typographic logos and many fontsFont Designers Samples of the work of over 400 font designers
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