My love for fonts goes back to my childhood when my mother would hand letter everything. She still does when she's not on the computer Skyping friends in the UK or designing spots for the local paper. She even has a degree in 'Sign Making', which admittedly is almost entirely a thing of the past now having been rolled over by vinyl cutting machines and printers that are capable of printing to outdoor canvas. But there is a beautiful truth in the hand-painted letter that I still tip my hat too.
Here's to you "BONELESS CHICKEN ON SALE!" on the grocery store window.
Here's to you "SPRINGSATIONAL BLOW OUT!" car sale.
Here's to you "Orange County Fire Fighters, Station 18" - in golf leaf no less ;)
Here's to you Rock-A-Billy pinstriping dude!
All that being said I began and continue my obsession with fonts, signage & lettering. I hope the following lists comes as a blessed resource to you and your future designs. I've tried to weed this like of online font sites that just loop you from one to another only then to sell you porn and real estate along the way. If you find on here, tell me, I'll kill it.
Smashing Magazine Articles:
Font Portals:
- My Fonts
- Font Space
- Fawnt
- Font River
- Tree House Fonts
- Font Haus
- FontCo
- Font Girl
- Font Shop
- Font Reactor
- Adbstract Fonts
- Da Font
- Fonts.com
- 1001 Free Fonts
- Fontscape
- Urban Fonts
- FFonts
- Type Now
- Font Styles
- Search Free Fonts
Font Blogs:
- Typotheque
- Nym Font
- Free Typography
- Font Sugar
- Peter Weigel
- Fresh Bump
- Simply The Best
- I love typography
- Font Lover
- Typeneu
- Typographica
- Font Leech
- Nice Web Type
- Type For you
- Mark Simonson
- Re-Type
- Font Blog
- Letritas
- Typography For Headlines
- Swiss Legacy
Designers & Foundries (Courtesy of FontShop.com):
- 2Rebels
- Alphabet Soup
- Altered Ego
- ARS Type
- Ascender
- B&P Type Foundry
- Baseline
- Betatype
- Bitstream
- Bold Monday
- Borges Lettering
- Büro Dunst
- Carter & Cone
- CastleType
- Club-21
- Comicraft
- Creative Alliance
- Dalton Maag
- Device Fonts
- DSType
- DynaComware
- Electric Typographer
- Elsner+Flake
- Emigre
- Emtype
- Flat-it Type Foundry
- Font Bureau
- FontFont
- Fontpartners
- FontShop AG
- Fontsmith
- Fountain
- G-Type
- GarageFonts
- Gestalten
- Hiba Studio
- Holland Fonts
- Hubert Jocham
- HVD Fonts
- Identikal
- IHOF
- ITC
- Jan Fromm
- Jarno Lukkarila Type Foundry
- Kapitza
- Lanston Type Co.
- Letter Perfect
- Letterbox
- Linotype
- LucasFonts
- MacCampus
- Mark Simonson Studio
- Mecanorma
- Monotype
- Moretype
- MvB Fonts
- NeubauLaden
- Neufville
- Norwegian Fonts
- OurType
- P22
- PampaType
- ParaType
- Parkinson Type Design
- Porchez Typofonderie
- Présence Typo
- primetype
- Process Type Foundry
- PsyOps Type Foundry
- Red Rooster
- ReType
- Richard Beatty
- Rimmer Type Foundry
- Samuelstype
- Scangraphic
- Schiavi Design
- Sherwood
- ShinnType
- SOTA
- Stylus
- Sudtipos
- Suitcase
- Suomi Type Foundry
- Three Islands Press
- Tipo
- Type-Ø-Tones
- Typebox
- Typejockeys
- Typerepublic
- TypeTogether
- TypeTrust
- Typonine
- Typotheque
- Underware
- URW
- Virus Fonts
- Wiescher
Font Styles:
- Greek/Fraternity
- Tattoo Fonts
- Mini Fonts
- Western Fonts
- Gothic Fonts
- English Fonts (.exe files)
- Old English
- Eroded Fonts
Grunge Fonts:
Graffiti Fonts:
Font Creators/Software:
Font Lab:
Web Ready:
Logos:
Font Tools:
Fun Tools: