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- sockpuppets, on 11/16/2008, -10/+56COMIC SANS FOREVER!!!!
- L0NER, on 11/16/2008, -2/+40Arial v Helvetica
http://www.iliveonyourvisits.com/helvetica/ - Menoats, on 11/17/2008, -0/+22One rar to rule them all.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XMXGTBFM
I got most of them. Didn't sign up for that site though. - adrian67, on 11/16/2008, -8/+28Yeah some great fonts - thanks jggube.
- NinjaBull, on 11/16/2008, -1/+20I had to make sure I was on Digg for a second there!
- NathanCH, on 11/16/2008, -3/+21Seems like a compilation of free fonts from basic font sites.
Lacking both 'incredible' and 'professional' fonts. - webresources, on 11/16/2008, -8/+25very nice list..
- plaxx, on 11/17/2008, -1/+17The correct term is typeface, not font.
And all those are absolute *****. Pure novelty, and just terrible. - jggube, on 11/16/2008, -4/+20You're welcome adrian67.
- Spanq, on 11/16/2008, -3/+19These are garbage. Buried.
- jamesgoss, on 11/16/2008, -12/+27yeah. feel free to use < all > of these fonts for your web designs.
I personally find it hilarious to know that your webpage typography will look absolutely awful when it defaults. 99% of people don't have these type faces. Granted, most of these are display faces which would be slapped into a jpg, but still, you know someone out there is dumb enough to do it....
Ps. Having fonts isn't going to improve your typography skills. Knowing the correct application of maybe 5-10 fonts will make you look 1000% times more "professional" than throwing a generic freeware font at a problem and hoping it sticks. - jameskachan, on 11/16/2008, -4/+17These are not even close to being "professional" fonts.
try Hoefler & Frere-Jones if you want to see professional stuff. http://www.typography.com/home/index.php - cl2yp71c, on 11/16/2008, -1/+13Rar file please. =]
- FujiwaraTofu, on 11/17/2008, -0/+10If you want to get good at typography, learn how to use fonts like Helvetica, Times, Garamond, and Futura first. THEN you can mess around with these basically decorative, one-time-use fonts.
- streetlamp, on 11/16/2008, -4/+13These are all terrible.
- msflower97, on 11/16/2008, -2/+11Except those aren't free, which kinds of makes it apples and oranges.
- scy1192, on 11/17/2008, -0/+8How does a font improve skill?
- projjalc, on 11/17/2008, -0/+8Truly their incredibleness cannot be overemphasized.
- Jforsyth89, on 11/17/2008, -1/+9What an unfortunate banner image for a font-making tutorial:
http://noupe.com/img/font2-1.jpg - Joshuarr, on 11/16/2008, -2/+9I think most people who would consider using any of these badboys probably have a website that is a jpeg.
- Onideus, on 11/17/2008, -1/+8What's a 1000% times?
- ElBeh, on 11/16/2008, -2/+9Because webpage-design is the only use for fonts.
- inactive, on 11/16/2008, -0/+7same goes for writing, music, art, coding, design, modeling ....etc
- deanau, on 11/16/2008, -2/+9Wheres the RAR file with them all?
//wishfull thinking - inactive, on 11/16/2008, -4/+10Nice list. And making font is incredibly tedious. You have no idea until you try to make one that you can actually use. Most people take fonts for granted :(
- wisefool9, on 11/17/2008, -0/+6These fonts mostly suck ass. Worthless crap that would go along nicely with a free copy of AOL.
- emptyo, on 11/16/2008, -1/+7I don't get how HAVING the fonts can help with someone's typography skills. Thats like saying "this new hammer will make you a better carpenter".
- plaxx, on 11/17/2008, -0/+5Font comes from an early French word which means "molding" or casting".
What this basically means is that a font is the form with which a typeface is created.
"When you talk about how much you like a tune, you don’t say: “That’s a great MP3”. You say: “That’s a great song”. The MP3 is the delivery mechanism, not the creative work; just as in type a font is the delivery mechanism and a typeface is the creative work."
http://fontfeed.com/archives/font-or-typeface/ - yurishoujo, on 11/17/2008, -0/+5A few of these from deviant art and clearly say not for commercial use. I think that will shoot down a lot of professional use. Fail.
- RobotR0b0t, on 11/16/2008, -2/+7Most of these are just awful. Free or not.
If you want to design with typography then you should learn to use it properly. And bad fonts are bad no matter if you know how to use type correctly or not.
That said, there are maybe a few on the list that are OK. Museo is nice, but I don't care for the sans version they chose. - inactive, on 11/16/2008, -7/+12cough*
rar + sharebee = win - Nekiruhs, on 11/16/2008, -2/+7Did #12 just bel-air-roll us?
- SuicideMouse, on 11/17/2008, -1/+5Has nobody else noticed the "KKK" near the bottom of the page?
- soapycub, on 11/17/2008, -0/+4I find a much easier way to explain the difference between font and typeface is
Helvetica (type family) -- typeface
Helvetica Bold -- font - funnygreen, on 11/17/2008, -0/+4i really want to get the digg font.
- newsomer, on 11/17/2008, -0/+4Actually, the terms typeface and font become ambiguous when you are referring to a digital file that contains all the information pertaining to a typeface/font. From many computer "font" files you can construct text using a typeface in a multitude of styles and sizes. Thereby, many "fonts" are contained therein.
In the real world, people don't care if you ask for a Kleenex or tissue. - thurows, on 11/17/2008, -2/+6Want to improve your typography skills? Use less fonts.
- nicksoni, on 11/17/2008, -1/+5those are horrible. please dont use them in your print and web designs. please, please, please dont.
- StinkyJoe, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3 Although there a few good ones, I wouldn't call these "Incredible". Most of them seem amateur-ish and overall "meh", like 99% of the fonts on dafont.com. Fine, there's 1000's of them, but in the end, they're still all mediocre at best.
I know there are exceptions, but "free" and "quality" are two features you'll rarely find together in the same font. - kohl34, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3I saw a guy dressed as comic sans for Halloween.
- lowtolerance, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3that's just poor web design
- liljay2k, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3Are you coming down with something, sir?
- fantasyflamz, on 11/17/2008, -1/+4But once Helevetica was new too... Just because a font is new doesn't mean that it's bad. Everything starts sometime. Although I do agree with you partially: it's not ALL about the typeface, although typeface does have an impact.
- msflower97, on 11/16/2008, -3/+6Killjoy.
- cadmiumpaint, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3None of these fonts are professional. Who needs free knock off fonts when your client can pay for legit ones???
These are just a collection of crappy free fonts that are all over the web like on dafont.com The few decent ones are just cheaply traced knock offs of legit fonts. - Hobo97, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3Yes a good lot of them are novelty, but I don't find anything particularly offensive about Museo Sans, or Fertigo.
- wonderbriefs, on 11/17/2008, -0/+2I strongly disagree. Most people undervalue fonts and think that this list consists of 50 "Incredible" fonts, when there are about four that are usable.
- aprocter, on 11/17/2008, -2/+4He doesn't necessarily mean use them as the font on your website. He could mean to use them in some of the surrounding graphics for instance. Although from the perspective of using it as the actual fonts, your point is valid.
- rossisdead, on 11/17/2008, -0/+2What's a "font" then?
- ultrafez, on 11/17/2008, -1/+3403 Forbidden. Sweet.
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