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TreeTwista10
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If theres already a thread for this, I apologize, but basically list free fonts / websites with free fonts here. Hopefully everyone can use this as some type of source. Here are a few:

http://www.davidpye.com/index.php?page=fontvault

http://911fonts.com/

12/16/2008 1:33:40 PM

qntmfred
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you got something against Times New Roman?

12/16/2008 1:40:42 PM

TreeTwista10
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no but sometimes people who send me Illustrator or InDesign documents do

I just do what I can

TWW uses arial, correct?

12/16/2008 1:41:38 PM

Ernie
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http://www.dafont.com > *

12/16/2008 1:42:49 PM

Aficionado
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and really, those people (^^) are just pompous assholes



[Edited on December 16, 2008 at 1:43 PM. Reason :

12/16/2008 1:43:04 PM

Ernie
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Quote :
"TWW uses arial, correct?"


body	{
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}


http://www.brentroad.com/style.css

12/16/2008 1:45:22 PM

TreeTwista10
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but the default text is arial

12/16/2008 1:49:11 PM

Ernie
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No, the default text is verdana

12/16/2008 1:50:14 PM

TreeTwista10
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Test
Test

gotcha


[Edited on December 16, 2008 at 1:51 PM. Reason : i knew it wasnt times new roman]

12/16/2008 1:51:00 PM

Ernie
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Dude, look at the CSS snippet I posted above

12/16/2008 1:51:29 PM

0EPII1
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Times New Roman

Garamond

12/17/2008 5:08:22 PM

TreeTwista10
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Oh you like Garamond, do you?

I prefer sans-serif fonts myself

I wish some of these sites had huge batch downloads that you could just copy right into your windows\fonts directory instead of having to individually download the fonts, and in some cases, individually unzip each file

[Edited on December 17, 2008 at 5:12 PM. Reason : .]

12/17/2008 5:10:55 PM

OmarBadu
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calibri for windows mobile

12/17/2008 5:13:09 PM

Prospero
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i'm not sure if any of these are valid anymore, but here's a list i put together 1-1/2 years ago:

free fonts:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/category/fonts/
http://www.betterfonts.com/
http://www.dafont.com/
http://www.urbanfonts.com/
http://neatfonts.com/
http://creamundo.com/ (9800 fonts)
http://www.1001freefonts.com/
http://www.abstractfonts.com/
http://simplythebest.net/fonts/
http://openfontlibrary.org/
http://www.typenow.net/themed.htm (themed)
http://www.searchfreefonts.com/

free font managers:
http://www.adobe.com/products/atmlight/download.html (Adobe Type Manager Light)
http://www.linotype.com/fontexplorerX
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~scef/tft.html (The Font Thing)

identify a font:
http://www.identifont.com/
http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

type tester:
http://typetester.maratz.com/

brand names:
http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/

create your own font:
http://www.fontifier.com/

[Edited on December 17, 2008 at 5:30 PM. Reason : .]

12/17/2008 5:20:01 PM

TreeTwista10
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sweet

i mean

SWEET

12/17/2008 5:23:09 PM

Prospero
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garamond, helvetica, swiss 721 light are my fav's

an opentype my firm uses which i really like is called Kievit - http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/fontfont/kievit/

12/17/2008 5:23:23 PM

TreeTwista10
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wow that create your own font thing could be pretty neat

12/17/2008 5:24:39 PM

kiljadn
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I <3 georgia for websites

and segoe for most other shit

12/17/2008 5:53:29 PM

TreeTwista10
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whats a program i can use to turn off most of my 8,000 fonts? cause illustrator takes like 5 minutes to load now lol

12/24/2008 10:04:10 AM

dFshadow
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i use extensis suitcase

12/24/2008 10:35:31 AM

BigMan157
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i've taken to using Calibri on websites since it looks really nice and degrades to Arial really really well

12/24/2008 10:51:40 AM

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