Fonts for Scrapbooks
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Last Updated: July 18th 2009
An Introduction
Purists scorn at the very word - 'font'. The appropriate technical term is 'typeface' - but Microsoft and Apple have succeeded in changing the rules. So it's 'font', as of now!
Digitization of fonts has caused a revolution of sorts - anyone with basic design knowledge and access to a font editor can create them. Even something as omnipresent as CorelDRAW allows you to create elementary fonts!
Font Foundries And Stores
Ascender's Scrapbook Font Pack includes 10 scrapbook fonts and scrapbook layouts in Microsoft Word.
The Adobe Type Library is a great source for many classic and contemporary typefaces.
Matton offers a wide selection of both PC and MAC fonts available for immediate purchase and download.
Agfa MonoType has a huge library - visit their Type-It section to preview their online real-time typesetter.
The Linotype Library has developed into a great font portal.
Bitstream is a leading source for quality fonts. Online purchases can be made at their subsidiary - MyFonts, the best font site ever!
Identifont has a font identifier that enables you to identify a font from a sample by answering a series of simple questions
Free Fonts
Divide By Zero is a collection of high quality free fonts designed by Tom Murphy.
Urban Fonts has a large archive of free fonts and dingbats for both PC and Macintosh.
FreewareFonts.com has lists of exhaustive links to free font sites - and they are all rated as well.
Free Font of the Day from MediaBuilder has a new free font five days a week.
1001FreeFonts provides over 1001 free fonts to choose.
FontFreak is the largest freeware/shareware font archive online - with fonts from over 400 different designers.
Font-a-licious is a well designed repository of interesting fonts.
Yamada Language Guide is the definitive guide to language resources.
Coron's Sources of Fonts is a storehouse of fonts, links and information.
Famous Fonts is another great resource for fonts from television, movies, food and drink, publications, games, automobiles, sports, companies/organizations and more...
Creative Impressions is an excellently catalogued font resource.
SimplytheBest Fonts allows you to browse through alphabetical font listings or font categories to view and download free fonts.
Fonts N Things has a treasure trove of free unusual fonts displayed alphabetically available for download.
Webpage Publicity has around 6500 free fonts that can be used for free.
Dingbats
There's a great dingbats section at the Dingbat Pages site.
Font Garden is a great repository of over 400 dingbats - it has regular fonts as well.
DingbatDepot has the largest collection of free dingbat fonts on the Internet.
Altemus is a collection of dingbats available for online sale.
Font Creation Tutorials
Divide By Zero has a tutorial on creating fonts with Photoshop, Fontographer and a Wacom tablet.
Chank Diesel shows you ways to create fonts with Adobe Streamline and Macromedia Fontographer.
Laurie McCanna's site has a tutorial on Creating Type.
Font Information
TrueType Typography is a veritable encyclopedia of font information.
Michael's Dilemma is one of the best font-related sites.
Apple has a great knowledgebase of font related information.
Laurie McCanna's site has links to commercial and shareware type resources.
Font Embedding
Microsoft Font Properties Extension lets you view font properties including embedding abilities.
Microsoft Font Properties Editor lets you edit certain font information.
Bitstream offers TrueDoc - a SDK which solves the problem of associating fonts in portable documents.
Microsoft WEFT allows embedding of fonts into web pages.
Font Managers
Extensis Suitcase is a cross platform solution to manage fonts.
Typograf is an excellent utility to preview, install and manage fonts.
Printer's Apprentice is another useful font preview and manage application.
MyFonts is a flexible font manager.
Font Creators And Utilities
To use Type 1 or Adobe PostScript fonts, you will first need to install the basic version of Adobe Type Manager.
Fontographer is the de facto standard in font creation.
Pyrus creates a range of font creation tools including FontLab, TypeTool and ScanFont.
Brother Soft is a freeware font creation tool.
Font Creator is a simple, easy way to create your own fonts.
Symbol Selector is a better replacement for the Character Map which comes with Windows.
Crossfont allows you to convert fonts between the PC and Mac platforms.
Newsgroups
The Usenet has many font groups - alt.binaries.fonts is among the most popular. comp.fonts is another popular font newsgroup.
The Google Groups (earlier Deja) archive is a treasure trove of searchable information posted across a huge number of newsgroups.
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