Tag: FONTS

OK, look. I can think of a thousand better ways to organize fonts than by creating a spoof of the Periodic Table of Elements. But none of them are quite as cool. The Periodic Table of Typefaces covers a number of major fonts and includes information about the family and classification of each, the designer, the year the font was designed, and a ranking as cribbed from a number of internet ...

Reading articles online can be a huge pain. Some sites have no sense of type design, or just have too much clutter to give you a pleasant reading experience. Readability is at least a partial solution to the problem. It's a customizable bookmarklet for all major browsers that lets you load a site in a text-only mode to make it easier on the eyes. Readability offers modes for everyone who reads ...

If you're a big typography nerd, FontShop's FontShuffle app for iPhone will be right up your alley. FontShuffle lets you carry samples of the typefaces in FontShop's extensive catalog around in your pocket, ready for those on-the-go font identification situations. If you ever need to settle an argument about what font the restaurant used for the dinner menu, just whip out your iPhone or iPod Touch ...

What the font from My Fonts is a web site designed to help you figure out the name of a font from a JPG file submission. For example, if you want to know what font DLS uses, capture a screen shot of some text, upload it on What the font and see what you find out. It's pretty simple to use, just upload the image, fill in any missing letters and let the site do the work for you. I submitted ...

We love free fonts, but sometimes the process of finding half-decent ones can be pretty annoying. Fontspace.com tries to smooth out the rough spots for free font junkies. Instead of simply categorizing fonts, Fontspace uses the good ol' tagging system - which provides easier access to similar fonts. The broad categories on some other sites (sorry DaFont) often lead to large, tiresome lists that ...

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. Have you ever wondered what Comic Sans, Times New Romans, or Futura fonts would look, sound, and act like if they were people? Yeah, neither have we. But after watching the video above, we can't believe the thought had never occurred to us. This video from College Humor probably qualifies as the funniest thing we've ever seen. At least ...

Are you constantly struggling to remember the difference between Arial, Times New Roman and Palatino Linotype? Sure, you could just keep changing fonts from the drop-down menus in your word processor, or you could use FontEXPRO to preview all the fonts stored on your computer and choose the right one for the job. When you first run FontEXPRO, there's a chance the main window will just be blank. ...

The more fonts you have installed on your Windows computer, the slower it boots. It's one of those basic facts of life. It's not fair, but it's true. Because Windows needs to read each and every font while it's loading, it can take 30 seconds longer to boot a system with 1000 fonts installed than one with 100. It turns out Windows XP installs just 44 fonts. All the other fonts on your system were ...

One weakness many users discover when switching to Linux is typography. Fonts are a lot more important to your computing experience than you might think, and although Ubuntu does a good job of providing some pretty core fonts, and the Microsoft font core pack can add greatly to that, Red Hat offers the Liberation Font package which in a lot of ways is superior to even Microsoft's tried and true ...

Free fonts are everywhere online, but in most cases you get what you pay for. While many people are happy using hacked together fonts, discerning viewers notice the little things that set a well-made font apart from the wannabes. Freelance web designer Vitaly Friedman has put together a listing of his choice of the best 25 free fonts available online, and it's very hard to argue with his choices. ...

Ubuntu comes with loads of fonts pre-installed, and if you've goosed the power of your Ubuntu install with Automatix, you've already added several more. For the casual graphic designer though, more fonts are always welcome. Ubuntu Blog has compiled an incredible roundup of easily installable and freely available fonts for Ubuntu; all of which can be downloaded and installed with just a quick cut ...

Flipping through free font sites is not an ideal way to spend time (hate those pop-up ads) however, you can go to Fonts 500 which provides the top 500 fonts from some of the web's biggest free font archives. Here you can cull through your favorites and know that users like you found these the best to download. Btw, the two fonts used in the Download Squad graphic are Heartland (for "Download" and ...

BetterFonts.com has 10,000 fonts. All freeware or shareware, and available for download. Their site is well organized and makes it quick to find a bunch of new fonts. There are a lot of sites out there offering free fonts, and you come to find out that free doesn't always mean free. Betterfonts.com is free to use, the fonts are free and you are merely two clicks from having any fonts on your PC. ...

Another in line of web apps with URLs that go straight to the point, FontTester does just that - tests fonts. You get up to three columns, and therefore three different fonts can be displayed on-screen at the same time. It also includes a bunch of other cool typesetting features, like a full-featured character map, and advanced options like line-height and text-transforms (for example, SmallCaps). ...

1001freefonts.com gives you some fo the best fonts out there, for free. Go check out one of the best font sites on the web (in my pompous opinion). The site has many excellent fonts. I often peruse the site when I need font-ular inspiration for a design project. They have many spoof fonts for major brands like Subway, Batman, Star Wars, and many others. Most (if not all) fonts are in TTF ...