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Font-tastic free fonts and dingbats!
Thursday, December 28, 2006
There's hundreds of times that you could use different typefaces in your documents and projects - my sister for example at Christmas, made placecards for the whole family each member with a different font to reflect their hobby or job - and they looked fantastic.
Urban Fonts is a great looking site which offers free fonts and dingbats to download. They have a distinct 'web 2.0' look and feel - curvy corners, slight 3D effect on the logo and bright colours. The site is well laid out and easy to navigate with features such as the top searches shown as a word cloud, featured free font of the day, useful font articles, categorised fonts and a blog.
One feature that I did like? No pop-ups! There are ads on the site but they don't obscure or obstruct your view, and with providing over 8000 free fonts, I think they're probably entitled to try and earn some money!
When you've chosen a font category or are viewing your search results, you can select whether to view both free and commercial fonts or just free ones or just commercial ones. From these results you can download the font directly for both windows and macintosh, or if you click for further details, you can then see the full range of letters available or even better, type in your own text and font colour to see what it will look like in a range of sizes which is a really nifty feature.
A 'dingbat' in case you've not come across the term, is used to describe a font with symbols and shapes rather than alphabetical or numeric characters - common examples are wingdings and webdings in Windows.
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