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- patbenatar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+72You'd be surprised as to how much non-free stuff you can find when the first word in your search is "free"
- Daniel591992, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22You'll get ugly fonts when you do that :(
- 0x0000ff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12paranoid about .de domains?? Uh.... you know there is a rather large portion of the world based OUTSIDE of the USA, right?
You know that .DE is for deutschland, right?
Lay off the green, you're freakin out. - AndrewJC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9You obviously aren't a publisher or graphic designer. Nobody uses those fonts in print. When you're designing a company's logo or an advertisement, you have to use other stuff.
- Daniel591992, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10http://duggmirror.com/design/25_Best_Free_Quality_Fonts/
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@understudy
Actually, yes. About.com has a whole section on font look-a-likes. You can find it here:
http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/fonts/a/lookalikefonts.htm
And I agree, Gotham is one of the nicest looking fonts ever made. I've used similar ones in MANY projects. Always a huge success. :)
@felchdonkey
Read before you post. He said nothing about stealing fonts. And who said he's a professional graphic designer? A freelancer can't afford paying $400 left and right for fonts they may only use once. This is why free fonts are so great. - Daniel591992, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7If using firefox, right click on the image and select view image. The image was shruck, so it lost quality ;)
- brotherfranciz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@stuffhappens: The keyword being "quality", not "free"...
This website actually offers USABLE fonts that you can use for projects and essays - unlike the 'cool ones' like coca cola and disney that you won't ever use, unless you're a coca cola or disney fanboy that is... - macman81, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The problem that I've experienced with dafont is that though all of the font files are free and look nice, a great portion of them are either locked down so you can't use them in professional print design, missing common characters (@#$*&(^%@ etc.) or so corrupt that high-end printers will actually refuse to use them. I have spent countless hours troubleshooting fonts from dafont in my school newspaper and I can tell you that it is FAR wiser to either buy fonts or make sure that the fonts you download for free are of excellent quality, before you go on a clicking spree like I did.
- ZaNkY, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Point taken. I'm not, and I guess that affects my judgment. Still dugg for a handy resource.
Like the Digg font is a special font? You have a good point, thanks for pointing that out :) - Artemis11, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Yes. o.O no, really.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You are obviously not a graphic artist. These fonts are great.
"Good fonts" aren't just those with a cheeky theme or crazy looks.
Good fonts withstand the test of time. - BionicPimp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5They all seem to be very good copies of Adobe fonts. I'm sure it's just they way the screenshots were taken, but they all look a little blocky...like there is no anti-aliasing on them. That being said, I'm sure they all look fine when used locally.
- TinyClanger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I generally use http://www.abstractfonts.com/
- squarehappy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This one was on the front page not long ago:
http://betterfonts.com/
The interface kicks ass, you can preview any text you want, and it's free. - gatorsrule21, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I think you must be using IE too.
- Jawshy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8dafont.com
- understudy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3One of my favorite fonts is Gotham ( http://typography.com/catalog/gotham/index.html ). But it is priced at $200-$500. Why is this? Is there some other way to find this font or something similar to it?
_ - gatorsrule21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The thing that sets Dafont above the rest for me is the ability to narrow your search down to a certain type of font.
If anyone knows of a higher quality site (many out there) that gives me the options to narrow like Dafont (not many out there).
Of course it would be handy if the reccomendations were free. : ) - aristotle1990, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yeah. When searching for something free, never use "free" in your search. "open source" followed" by your desired piece of software followed by your OS name usually produces free results, even if they're not open source. "open source" is relatively rare as a consumer keyword, so advertisers don't bother spamming Google with results for "open source."
- Daniel591992, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.dafont.com/top.php
- slackerbox, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7Free quality? Free of quality?
- speedyrev, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5It's already dead... R.I.P.
- understudy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@everyone
I meant under a reduced license, like a sliding scale, or perhaps individual licenses. Sackers Gothic looks extremely similar for a tenth of the price though. I agree that designers deserve compensation.
And yes, if I were to "acquire it" for free, I would play around with it. But I wouldn't use it in any commerical aspect unless it were licensed first.
_ - anonym41414, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Computer programmers seem to think that what they do is easy. And they tend to get irritated when it doesn't come as easily to other people.
Artists tend to work very, very hard to create what they create, and they seem to realize that not just anybody can do it. They sometimes take great pride from this.
That's why computer programmers are sometimes so willing to give away their work for free, while artists expect others to value their work as much as they do. - bash, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3O.o
Waiiit, did you just say that because you got a lot of attempted attacks from Germany and Australia on your site, you won't visit German and Australian websites?
Since when did users == websites?
(You use IE? -1 cookie for you.) - kippie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3there are millions of tutorials by designers on the net, i don't think its fair to say that designers aren't as generous as anybody else.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Why isn't Deja Vu there?
- garyh84, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3beat your ass?
- digital1, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Here is a question. Why is that software engineers are willing to work all night to make every type of software needed for free and yet seems no "Graphic Designer" is willing to release a set of good icons, fonts, css or templates?
Now I remember, I went to college with a bunch of "Graphic Designer", and they .... - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The Digg logo is not a font, it is a hand-drawn logo. For that matter, you won't find any professionally designed logo using an off-the-shelf typeface. You might find a lot of so-called logos that were tossed together in a week for a few hundred bucks or less incorporating standard fonts, but those are from people that know Photoshop, which is not the same as a professional graphic designer.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Very good question...
- porkstacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yaaay!!! Postscript Type 1 fonts!!! Further proof that Vitaly Friedman is THE man!
- LR2_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1These are great, thanks. Does anyone else know of any other 'top 10 type' font lists which are license free?
- freudianslipper, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1I didn't take his comment to mean he wanted to steal it. But as a professional designer, I agree with you.
- d1on1x, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2403 Forbidden - "You don't have permission ... "
Seems like they did not survive all the attention .. - shard42, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1meh. they're ok fonts. the best I've seen are from http://blambot.com/ they make all their own fonts, thought not all of them are free.
- veryboring, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yeah
- woteva2neva, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0uh.....well i recently downloaded a coca cola font called "loki cola" but when i try and use it on microsoft word.......the font shows as a font similar to ariel rather than the coca cola font......is there anyone that can help me with why that happens??
- anudeglory, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
It's so nice, I use it for everything now! Default in all programs across Win/Linux and Mac :) - JohnH, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2It's because it's a lot easier to find a job as a programmer than as a graphic designer. Guy's gotta eat....
- tw0bit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Is there a direct download?
- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2or you could try searching for "free as in beer" or "free as in speech" for things under which the open source blanket doesn't cover.
Perhaps these keywords could be taken up by anyone offering anything free as in fonts... - Soulhuntre, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1The flaw there is with the programmers, not the artists.
Personally? I think it's because artists have accepted that it is OK and moral to insist on gettign paid for your talent. Most programmers (at least on Digg and in OSS) have expended huge amounts of effort convincing themselves that the fruit of their labor is supposed to be free to all. I think this is so they can claim that there is no problem copying stuff they don't want to pay for.
Let's face it - when your willign to steal the work of others in yoru profession (software piracy) and claim it as a moral battle against evil how can you really respect your own work? - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4You mean steal it? It costs what it costs because it's a professionally designed typeface, meant for professional use.
I just checked the price on the link you provided, and you can get all 24 fonts in the Gotham family for $400. That's a very fair price, considering that it's meant as a tool for professional designers.
If you're a building contractor, you pay for your tools - why shouldn't a graphic designer do the same? - slashdotislame, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1half the links dont work or you need to contact the owner or the fonts have been revoked because they were commercial.
one of the sites tried to get to to sign up and pay $0.
one site led me in circles and back to a preview, no file to download.
one site was dead
one was a wayback link that was unavailable, non-working.
by 'quality' they mean 'complete character set of letters you will never use'.
and the examples are fuzzy.
this is lame. - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Actually, adamsucks, I read pretty carefully. He wanted "some other way to find this font" that is supposed to cost $200-$400. Sounds to me like he wants it cheap or free.
If it's for a freelance job, then the client can pay for the typeface as an expense. If they're not willing to pay for it, then find another font family.
Not a professional designer at all? Well, then, sorry. It's an expensive typeface. That's just the way it is. I'm not a professional mechanic, but I don't expect anyone to let me have a full set of Snap-On tools for free... - Soulhuntre, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Remember... here on Digg it woudln;t be "stealing" because the font author would still have the font. Oh, and he wasn't goign to pay for it anyway. So he'll just, you know, download it for free and use it.
That's different somehow. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1pretty much.
- rlh68, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0Actually I use both IE and FireFox, IE for the sites I frequent and trust and Firefox for the sites that I am unsure of (I prefer IE, guess I'll flamed for this). I started avoiding sites in .de and .au after looking at my web servers logs and finding that most of the IP's trying to do 'bad' things to it originated from those countries.
Thanks for the serious replies. No green here... Straight Edge. -
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