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by Geetesh
Bajaj - updated March 11th, 2008
An Introduction
Font Foundries And Stores
Free Fonts
Dingbats
Font Creation Tutorials
Font Information
Font Embedding
Font Managers
Font Creators And Utilities
Newsgroups
An Introduction
Purists scorn at the very word - 'font'. The appropriate
technical term is 'typeface' - but Microsoft and Apple have
succeeded in changing the rules. So it's 'font', as of now!
Digitization of fonts has caused a revolution of sorts -
anyone with basic design knowledge and access to a font editor
can create them. Even something as omnipresent as CorelDRAW
allows you to create elementary fonts!
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Font Foundries And Stores
The Adobe
Type Library is a great source for many classic and contemporary
typefaces.
Matton
offers a wide selection of both PC and MAC fonts available
for immediate purchase and download.
Agfa
MonoType has a huge library - visit their Type-It section
to preview their online real-time typesetter.
The Linotype
Library has developed into a great font portal.
Bitstream
is a leading source for quality fonts. Online purchases can
be made at their subsidiary - MyFonts,
the best font site ever!
Identifont
has a font identifier that enables you to identify a font
from a sample by answering a series of simple questions
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Free Fonts
Divide
By Zero is a collection of high quality free fonts designed
by Tom Murphy.
Urban Fonts has a large archive of free fonts and dingbats for both PC and Macintosh.
FreewareFonts.com has lists of exhaustive links to free
font sites - and they are all rated as well.
Free Font of the Day from MediaBuilder has a new free
font five days a week.
1001FreeFonts
provides over 1001 free fonts to choose.
FontFreak
is the largest freeware/shareware font archive online - with
fonts from over 400 different designers.
Font-a-licious
is a well designed repository of interesting fonts.
Yamada
Language Guide is the definitive guide to language resources.
Coron's Sources of Fonts is a storehouse of fonts, links
and information.
Famous
Fonts is another great resource for fonts from television,
movies, food and drink, publications, games, automobiles,
sports, companies/organizations and more...
Creative Impressions is an excellently catalogued font
resource.
SimplytheBest
Fonts allows you to browse through alphabetical font listings
or font categories to view and download free fonts.
Fonts
N Things has a treasure trove of free unusual fonts displayed
alphabetically available for download.
Webpage
Publicity has around 6500 free fonts that can be used
for free.
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Dingbats
There's a great dingbats section at the Dingbat
Pages site.
Font
Garden is a great repository of over 400 dingbats - it
has regular fonts as well.
DingbatDepot
has the largest collection of free dingbat fonts on the Internet.
Altemus
is a collection of dingbats available for online sale.
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Font Creation Tutorials
Divide
By Zero has a tutorial on creating fonts with Photoshop,
Fontographer and a Wacom tablet.
Chank
Diesel shows you ways to create fonts with Adobe Streamline
and Macromedia Fontographer.
Laurie McCanna's site has a tutorial on Creating
Type.
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Font Information
TrueType
Typography is a veritable encyclopedia of font information.
Michael's
Dilemma is one of the best font-related sites.
Apple
has a great knowledgebase of font related information.
Laurie
McCanna's site has links to commercial and shareware type
resources.
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Font Embedding
Microsoft
Font Properties Extension lets you view font properties
including embedding abilities.
Microsoft
Font Properties Editor lets you edit certain font
information.
Bitstream offers TrueDoc -
a SDK which solves the problem of associating fonts in portable
documents.
Microsoft
WEFT allows embedding of fonts into web pages.
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Font Managers
Extensis
Suitcase is a cross platform solution to manage fonts.
Typograf is
an excellent utility to preview, install and manage fonts.
Printer's
Apprentice is another useful font preview and manage
application.
MyFonts is
a flexible font manager.
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Font Creators And Utilities
To use Type 1 or Adobe PostScript fonts, you will first need
to install the basic version of Adobe
Type Manager.
Fontographer is
the de facto standard in font creation.
Pyrus creates
a range of font creation tools including FontLab, TypeTool
and ScanFont.
Brother
Soft is a freeware font creation tool.
Font
Creator is a simple, easy way to create your own fonts.
Symbol
Selector is a better replacement for the Character
Map which comes with Windows.
Crossfont allows
you to convert fonts between the PC and Mac platforms.
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Newsgroups
The Usenet has many font groups - alt.binaries.fonts
is among the most popular. comp.fonts
is another popular font newsgroup.
The Google
Groups (earlier Deja) archive is a treasure trove of searchable
information posted across a huge number of newsgroups.
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