While all you Apple nerds are still going retarded over Tiger, I thought I’d throw you a bone with these Mac exclusives:
Pixelyn has a bunch of good-looking Mac-only pixel faces.
Feltron has a few nice fonts, including Remove (thanks to Jason Fields for the link).
Hopefully everyone will get with the program soon and start using OpenType so I can work with my free fonts on any computer I want (like that sweet CIA computer in Mission: Impossible).
Feel free to answer this one anonymously: Have you ever downloaded pirated commercial fonts?
And some speculation: What kind of impact does this have on the commercial type design industry? Where are these pirated fonts coming from? Who shot J.R.?
Heinrich Lischka’s Font Boutique only has a couple of free fonts available but it’s definitely worth checking out. I like Neo Retro, but the real gem here is clearly Samba.
Glashaus Design is a (German?) graphic design studio that has a few free fonts available for download on their site. One of them happens to be the excellent sans serif “Lacuna”. Once you enter their site, just click on the “Glashaus-Fonts” link at the top of the page to check out Lacuna and Catherine, a nice serif typeface. Then pat yourself on the back for following instructions soooooo well, kiddo!
I wouldn’t attempt to pronounce it, but Polenimschaufenster is “the free font foundry by Hannes Siengalewicz, student of MultiMediaArt.” Hannes says:
Driven by serbian Sljivovic I create typefaces out of found footage like money, old magazines, boardgames from the 60ies or lables on bottles of liguor. Kyrillic characters rock.
Of course that quote needs a pounding from my giant [sic] stamp, but Hannes makes some pretty interesting fonts. Dinarjev Republika and Union Argochemicals are grungy without being obnoxious and Zwiefalter Klosterbräu is a useful script face. I really like fonts like this that have just the right touch of sloppiness.
These Hebrew fonts look awesome, but they’re of no real use to this goy.
I think the name says it all: Pirates & Fonts.
This has to be the dumbest collection of fonts ever (possibly NSFW?).
Sorry for the dearth of updates lately. Stupid real life!
Do you enjoy navigating absurdly undersized interfaces to download your free fonts? Then I’ve got just the site for you: Shamrocking! Get your eyes an inch or two from the monitor and check out their free font page (that’s the entire page pictured above).
I actually like the fonts a lot, and a little squinting doesn’t bother me. YMMV (IIRC, IANAL, LOL).
Update: Uh, so apparently it’s the right size in IE. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
This weekend I started plowing through the backlog of Fontleech email. Buried under all the Cialias and mortgage offers, I found some pretty sweet sites that you guys sent me. Nick Botner tipped me off to Fontscape, the work of Hiroki Tanaka. Hiroki’s got some nice work, especially MW Code. Check it out. And if you guys are looking a good source prescription drug source, just let me know.