Saturday, January 16, 2010

Kristy: Fonts, fonts, and more fonts

To those that know me, it’s no secret that I like using alternate fonts to the standards. Due to that, I love the following websites: http://www.dafont.com/ and http://www.kevinandamanda.com/fonts/ which offer a plethora of free fonts for download and no account needed. (There are many free font websites out there. These are just a few of my favorites.)

Thanks to http://www.kevinandamanda.com/whatsnew/tutorials/how-to-use-a-cute-font-for-your-blogger-post-titles.html I was able to use a favorite font of mine as my new Blogger post title font.

For those of you that don’t know offhand how to install a new font, the process is actually pretty easy (but also easy to forget). There are many web resources out there if you search for “How to install a font”, but here is a pretty good tutorial with some screen shots of the process: http://www.kevinandamanda.com/scrapbook/fonts/download-and-install/.

There are also resources out there that allow you to create your own font. I was able to create one for free back in early December, but that company has changed domains and now charges $10 to make your own handwriting font. Even if you pay though, it’s still fun to have your own font. It costs $9 to do it at http://www.fontifier.com/.

The font I made using fontcapture.com


There is also http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/. FontStruct lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks. Even if you don’t want to make one, you can still download these fonts.

Happy Fonting.

(Yes, I realize that font isn’t intended to be a verb.)

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