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- anteyekon4myst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35Is it just me..or are there too many web design sites that look like ***** themselves?
- Joyrex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20This is misleading because you cannot just use any font (for text) on a webpage unless your end users also have that font... this is going to get many uninformed beginning web page creators to use clever or cool fonts, and then scratch their heads when they see their site on another computer and wonder why their font is Times New Roman instead of FoShizzleMyDrizzle, that they got off of SnoopFonts or some other lame free font site.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16who needs to download new fonts when you can just use comic sans!
- RaulMontana, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10www.dafont.com
That's where I go - bleutuna, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Ugh. Crap. Buried as LAME-O.
- rense, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7This is a crap sponsored post.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I think they are referring to fonts for use in images (banners, navigation, etc.) because what you said is 100% correct.
- GalacticCmdr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6So you should take advice from a site using ugly-ass fonts about where the best fonts are located.
- praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -0/+5Yeah...the header totally kills this site. It looks...dirty.
- greymarketbrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3cannot agree more.
- davoudk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Better free font management for Mac is Linotype's FontXplorer:
http://www.linotype.com/fontexplorerX - Ezku, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yes. What the hell is it with the compressed-to-hell-and-beyond header and menu?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4http://www.dafont.com which is COMPLETELY free unlike this link which only offers a few crappy fonts for free. The rest you have to pay for. Buried as lame
- gnlnx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I agree with you Joyrex but I think it is also a great opportunity to lend a helping hand to "uninformed beginning web page creators" by giving them options or direction. There are ways to use custom fonts (although not bulletproof as far as I know) like sIFR... http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/. Hopefully, if these "web page creators" are serious about "web page [creating]" they will look into other options on their own. I know when I started it was always the comments/emails/responses that provided an explanation that helped me more than just stating something that I already knew. I am in no way trying to slam your comment rather I would like to extend it with at least this one option.
- ignorantcow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Maybe he's using a CRT- compression defects are way more noticeable on a LCD.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6*****.. jpeg compression... must... look away!!
- kingkool68, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Wow, look at all of those cool fonts that none of my website viewers will have. So why would I want to use them? This post is more for graphic designers not web designers. Buried!
- CircleFusion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Seriously, you're joking about asking if he's joking, right?
;-) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I love that site, I have gotten so many great fonts from there.
- joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"You're never going to find great fonts for free."
I disagree. There are some great free/open source ones out there. Granted, I can count the total of them on my two hands, but they are out there.
"I would plan on buying some fonts if you're serious about being a web designer."
I would agree with that. - assassinave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sorry i'm gonna be the a-hole here, but apparently there are very few DESIGNERS who have commented. Not only was the site that was linked to crap, but his recommendations are even worse for Urban Fonts.com. You do realize that most of these people co-opt these crappy free fonts from some of the original folks who had them like 1001freefonts, etc...and then reposted them displayed in their own site. So a big finger goes out to the link and to the people that link this stuff.
Typeface design is no different than being an architect. For the architect, the building must stand while for a typeface designer the typeface and its characters must be legible so that you can READ them. What they do is very purposeful and has affected every person on this planet in some way. Not that I expect much existential thought out of common web users, but you wouldn't be able to read nor interpret written language if it wasn't for typeface designers.
As odd as it sounds as you read this from a tough day laboring at the local electronics store or IT position you are in, creating type is much harder and more labor intensive than most of your jobs put together.
If you want to be a respectable outsider on typography i suggest you start looking at these sites.
www.typophile.com
www.typography.com
www.fontshop.com
www.processtype.com
www.chank.com
www.vllg.com
www.lineto.com
Site of the Day for usage of real type:
www.muccadesign.com
AND PAY FOR TYPE(if you can afford it)! You'd tip a crappy bartender, but you won't pay for hand crafted unique typefaces? - ifonly, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7I uploaded some *cough* Commercial *cough* fonts.
Download: http://www.rarhost.com/download-2zqtf9.html
List: http://www.rarhost.com/full.php?f=2zqtf9
Shh and enjoy ;) - bouche, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Yep, TOTALLY LAME
- Veign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cfont Pro (free):
http://cfontpro.com - spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1One of my favourite websites of all time is www.cooltext.com which lets you create free titles and buttons with a huge array of fonts and effects. I've used the site for web design, school projects, greeting cards, and all kinds of other reasons.
- Schnep97, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2... are you kidding?
- damienhe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Old news is old....
- UglieJosh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What a horrible resolution (word?) to use building a website.
Did anyone else have to side scroll a half mile to read the whole damn thing? Normally I wouldn't mention it, but being a website to help design good web-pages............. It is like how the glass shop down the street from me has cracks in their windows, lol.
The fonts that everyone is complaining about, IMO, looked basic and fine though. - Ezku, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The free selection in UrbanFonts is quite similar to that of DaFont, and it's not like DaFont doesn't have commercial fonts either. Actually, given the similarities in their features one'd be inclined to think there's some relation between the two sites. It's like UrbanFonts was a web2.0-ified version of DaFont with its nifty rollover previews, bright colours, gradients and tagcloud-like "top searches" box.
Dugg as useful. - joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yea, anyone giving advice on picking fonts should probably skip the 'free fonts' bit, as most of them are utter crap.
Not that that is a bad thing, as there some really nice free and open source options out there. But that urbanfonts site...blech. - marinist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"They keep out the dross"
Personally, I see a lot of mediocre fonts that won't scale well for Web apps, and that's as embed or raster. Hardly the "recommended" list I would give.
I'd suggest FontHaus or Linotype for a better range of styles (and well-designed fonts). - kampod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I spice up my graphics, add a dash of pizzazz to my projects with huge assortment of free fonts located here: http://www.fontriver.com/most_popular_fonts/
- armbar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It can't really be "better", because the article doesn't talk about font managers, just font previewers. Thanks anyway.
- armbar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1No, we should obviously take advice from GalacticCmdr.
P.S. the fonts this site uses are fine. - darkfate, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You're never going to find great fonts for free. They always cost something. I would plan on buying some fonts if you're serious about being a web designer. The Windows default fonts aren't going to get you that far.
- zx2ms, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why can't people just post the link to the site directly in digg. I don't feel like clicking a billion times just to get to another damn site. If I have to read another damn blog about some website that then links me to the actual site I might have to off a smurf.
- muhadeeb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0www.dafont.com is soo much more uncomplicated
- authortitle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0so true, it's actually a good site, i've found the content very interesting but that header has always bugged me. surely better suited to gif..?
- TurboStar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"As odd as it sounds as you read this from a tough day laboring at the local electronics store or IT position you are in, creating type is much harder and more labor intensive than most of your jobs put together."
As someone who's not only created fonts, but written software to allow that to even be possible, I take offense at your comment. Yes, labor intensive. No, not very hard. You've obviously never held an IT position with significant responsibility. - owensbofe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0dafont is way better than the blog spam. I like WDFS, but not this post.
"Sponsored post" - cresquin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Dear Designer:
Please don't use JPGs for a GIF or PNGs job! also learn to look for compression artifacts.. PLEASE!!! - kingofpenguins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The fonts that come with Ubuntu are all free and some are very, very nice (although some are copies, there licensed)
Here's a list of my favorites:
+ Nimbus Roman No9 L (Copy of Times (Not Times New Roman))
+ Nimbus Sans L (Copy of Helvetica)
+ Gentium (Original)
+ Bitstream's Vera (Original)
+ URW Palladio (Copy of Palladio/Book Antiqua, although it's more of an original than a copy, and Book Antiqua is the true copy. Read about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatino )
+ URW Bookman (Copy of Bookman)
I don't think you can download an archive of the Ubuntu fonts, but you can download and install Ubuntu and copy the fonts to your PC or Mac. - jummy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not all free fonts are crap - take a look at http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts
- fearofcorners, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The problem with this site is it has no sense of rhythm and proportion. It's got all the trendy "web 2.0"-isms down and mechanically is on the money, but it doesn't flow. It would improve significantly if they added maybe 30% more padding/margin between elements, increased line spacing and tried to create a sense of proportion between the boxes they're using.
- edcheng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As a web developer + designer myself, i find myself at a loss of good fonts to match websites very often!
- Malovech, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I think they intend the designer to use these in images or via some font-replacement technique with Flash. Either way, its useless.
- UGM2099, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Dugg for linking to Typeset. I will definitely buy it.
- Spr0k3t, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Comic sans is not a very good reading font in my opinion. Yours may vary.
- Malovech, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Dirty like a dirty bird.
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