UrbanFonts.com Creates Community For Font Fanatics
UrbanFonts.com provides a ready source to download fonts for free as well as commercial fonts for both Macs and Windows. And the special touches, like articles, a font blog and a message board, mean users don't have to just stop by and stock up on fonts. Rather, users can learn about fonts and participate in an online community dedicated to the art and craft of typography.
The site houses thousands of free fonts and free dingbats in a variety of categories, grouped by use, alphabetically, by author and by popularity. There's even a list of UrbanFonts favorite fonts. Fonts can be displayed with custom colors and custom text to ensure the font would be suitable in a project before downloading and installing it. Some are serif fonts, some are fun and stylish and still others are in the style of foreign languages. The dingbat section contains symbols to fit a wide variety of needs, from transportation and flowers to smilies and sports.
The blog section contains articles with a whole series of ideas for the best way to deploy fonts in a design, including the ideal number to use and the best way to choose a correct font.
DaFont.com offers free downloadable pixel fonts and TrueType fonts for Mac and Windows. Read our interview with site owner Rodolphe Milan.
Pixel Font Silkscreen — Silkscreen is a four member type family for your Web graphics created by Jason Kottke. Silkscreen, with both Mac and Windows versions, is free for personal and corporate use.
Tim Burton Fonts — You'll find a collection of free fonts from Tim Burton movies, including Mars Attacks!, Nightmare Before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow, and Willy Wonka.
Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute offers free Mac and Windows fonts. On the top menu click on the "Free Fonts" button and you'll be taken to a page where the free fonts are listed alphabetically. Look for Chicken Scratch, Fishy Print, Lovesick, PopMuzik Family, Skinner and Wild Monkeys.
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Blue Vinyl Fonts offers free Mac fonts, free Windows fonts and free TrueType fonts. On the main page look for their menu on the left and click on the first link "Freeware Fonts" and you'll be greeted with a quick Terms of use. Read through and then enter. You'll find page after page of good free fonts. Look for Dance Craze and Blue Melody.
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When you get to Chank Fonts you'll find a button on the top right that says Free Fonts. The free fonts they offer (for both Mac and PC) were created by designers from all over the world. Chank has been around a long time and you may find that some of the fonts look familiar, as they've been used by a lot of web designers over the years.
Have a look at these classics: Collateral Damage by Chris Hunt, El Hombre by Alex Gonzalez, Cowboy Rhumbahut by Matt Frost, Dresden Firestorm by Fontosaurus Text, b.j's Halloween Fontpak by b.j. harvey, Fallen Thyme by Fontosaurus Text, Sandra Oh by Michael Piercey, Fresh by Ben Balvanz, Newveau by Ben Sandstrom, Westsac by Sacramento Fontmaking Workshop Participants, Schwinger by The Chank Company, and Cafe Noir by Andrea Heikens.
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DaFont.com offers free downloadable pixel fonts and TrueType fonts for Mac and Windows. This is an amazing warehouse of free fonts - over 450 pages of them! Some beauties include Allegro, Marcelle, Anarchy, Matrix, Les Desastreuses Aventures, Alias and Dali.
DaFont.com also has some great free pixel fonts. Just do a search (top right of screen) for "pixel" to find them. A favorite one is Snoot.org px10 by Divide by Zero.
Another way to find good free fonts is to view their Top 100 Fonts.
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Divide By Zero offers free pixel fonts and TrueType fonts for Mac and Windows. You'll find a great collection here. There's also some good info about how to make your own fonts on the FAQ page, and a great tutorial on font making. There's an outstanding font there, Douglas Adams Hand - made from a handwriting sample Douglas Adams gave to the site owner and fontographer, Tom Murphy.
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Font Diner offers free TrueType fonts for Mac and Windows, and specializes in retro fonts. Enter on the front page and look for the menu at the bottom of the main page. There's a link titled "Free Silverware" which will bring you to their large collection of wonderful free fonts.
Also check out the "Homemade Specialties" section for some examples of good looking work using these fonts.
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HighFonts.com has a substantial library of free Mac and Windows pixel fonts and TrueType fonts you can download. Look for Dali, Kid Print, Loki-Cola, Punk Ass Bitch, Microgramma, Broadway, Amerika Sans, Alien League, and Adler.
NOTE: All of the fonts on the site are in PC format, but Mac users can download a font convertor available at the site and convert all of the fonts into Mac format.
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Misprinted Type 3.0, a site by Eduardo Recife, has some of the most beautiful, professional-looking fonts we could find. Look for Astonished, Broken 15, Dirty Ego (nice stencil effect), Disgusting Behavior, Downcome, Max Rhodes (great handwriting feel), Nail Scratch, Porcelain (nice cursive), Print Error (nice smudge), Rochester (messy typewriter), and Selfish (stylish cursive).
They also offer samples of font/image combinations that go along with the free fonts. Many of these samples are absolutely genius, and very, very inspiring.
(Mac / Windows / True Type)
go to Misprinted Tyoe 3.0 - Free Fonts
RockRage Music Fonts offers fonts that are all connected in one way or another to the look of a "band" and there are lots of them. For fonts that could be used in other projects besides music and bands, look at the fronts listed for The Cult, Deftones, Everlast, Papa Roach, Smashing Pumpkins, Temple Of The Dog, and Weezer.
(Mac / Windows / True Type)
go to RockRage Music Fonts
This is the place to find Movie fonts, the ones used on posters for big Hollywood films, as well as fonts for TV shows. Find free fonts for Alien, Austin Powers, Batman, Blade Runner, Brady Bunch, Buffy, A Clockwork Orange, CNN, ESPN, Flintstones, Frankenstein, Friends, Gilligan's Island, The Godfather, Godzilla, The Grinch, Hellraiser, Indiana Jones, Jeopardy, Jurassic Park, Looney Tunes, Lord Of The Rings, The Matrix, Roswell (a favorite), The Simpsons, South Park, Star Trek, Star Wars, Survivor, Terminator, Walt Disney, and the X-Files.
Keep scrolling down the page and you'll also find music and band fonts, as well as some corporate fonts, including Converse Allstars, Dodge, Ferrari, Holiday Inn, Honda, IBM (by the great Paul Rand), and Universal Studios.
NOTE TO MAC USERS: Do not download the ZIP files, they are for Windows only and will send your unstuffing software into a freeze. The MAC-compatible fonts are designated by a Finder Icon to the right of the font name.
go to TypeNow.net - Free TV & Movie Fonts
Wanted Fonts offers lots of free fonts. On left side navigation use the search, browse by alphabetical listing, or browse by one of the following categories: adult, asian, casual, dingbats, entertainment, famous, fire and ice, funtastic, futuristic, gothic, graffiti, grunge, handwriting, holiday, horror, miscellaneous, pixelated, primitive, retro, romance, sans serif, script, serif, shadowed, stencil, typewriter, unsorted, and western.
Site also lists the most popular free fonts and recent additions.
(Mac / Windows / pixel fonts / TrueType)
go to Wanted Fonts
On the front page of 04 click on "extra" and then you'll see "bitmap font" and "font ps.tt" - which are free downloads. This is a very nice collection of pixel fonts.
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