Fonts

[Quirkafleeg]

Anyone recommend any decent free fonts websites?

[longmanshort]

1001 Fonts is a good one

[Art]

Some good "novelty" fonts here...

Link: http://www.larabiefonts.com/" target="_blank">http://www.larabiefonts.com/

[Art]

Anything look familiar?

Link: http://www.1001fonts.com/font_details.html?font_id=150" target="_blank">http://www.1001fonts.com/font_details.html?font_id

[Bico]

/slow golf clap.

[Art]

more here...

Link: http://www.abstractfonts.com/" target="_blank">http://www.abstractfonts.com/

[Art]

and here...

Link: http://www.fontface.com/fotd/" target="_blank">http://www.fontface.com/fotd/

[Art]

/slow golf clap.

Careful there, people will think you've got some kind of motor control problem.

[pauljholden]

If you're looking for decent free fonts for use in small press titles, Blambot have a bunch of good ones (http://www.blambot.com) which they'll let you use.

Link: http://www.blambot.com" target="_blank">http://www.blambot.com

[Quirkafleeg]

Thanks for those... of course the second I posted it I found a list of recommended font sites but it all helps.


/slow golf clap.

I might give a damn if I actually understood what the hell you are on about here

[Pete Wells]

Loadsa nice familliar looking fonts here.

Pete.

Link: http://www.typenow.net/themed.htm" target="_blank">Film, music, telly and game fonts.

[Bico]

Hurrah!  Cheers, Pete.

Not that I've been looking for that Catwoman font for *that* long, mind.

[Art]

Anime Ace seems to be the most popular (and probably the best) for small press lettering.

Verbotten for small press: Comics Sans, just using a regular sans serif font for dialogue, going overboard and using too many "novelty" fonts on one page.

[Bico]

Anime Ace is fine if all you want is upper-case, but useless if the writer has pointed out words in the script that need highlighting or emphasis.
AA is also pretty boring, as every bugger seems to be using it these days, but not fiddling with it to get any effects or owt, which to me says that most lettering is viewed as a sort of "I get this out of the way and I can start printing"-type task, which shouldn't really be the case.  Experimentation is the name of the game - if you're stuck doing the job, you may as well excercise a bit of creative thinking with the tools you've got, rather than forcing yourself to go through the motions to produce the usual 'so-so' and never getting any enjoyment out of it.
It's only small press, after all - it's not like it'll amount to anything.

[Bico]

/hopes no-one notices Comic Sans is about all he ever uses