Free Premium Fonts is a website presenting 1000s of free fonts for download.
Fonts are very well-grouped into categories like futuristic, handwritten, 3D & more.
Once you view the details of a font, you can customize the text to have a better opinion about how it will look on your project.
Also, a magnifier helps you to zoom every letter & a "Top 50" list helps seeing what are the most downloaded fonts.
For every designer, Free Premium Fonts is a must-bookmark for reaching to a huge library of free fonts.
There are 1000s of free TrueType or OpenType fonts that can be used in design projects. On the other hand, there are very few free fonts in vector formats.
Fonts in vector formats like .AI, .EPS or PDF are great, specially when we want to modify or add an extra twist to them. As every layer of them are under our hands, this is easily possible.
Here is a collection of 19 creative, quality & free fonts in vector formats (.AI, .EPS or PDF) that you’ll like:
The font’s download link exists in the information section of the page.
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Open Font Library is a community for finding & sharing non-proprietary typeface designs.
Fonts shared can be downloaded for free or you can upload a font you created to share with others.
Although there are 10+ fonts presented in the website, this is the new face of Open Font Library where there are 150+ fonts to be transferred from the old website.
The website also hosts the fonts for free that you can include them to your webpages with @font-face rules (more details).
And, besides the free fonts, you can find information on how to design fonts, or how to earn money by designing them.
Fonts 500 is a website presenting the most popular fonts of all times and offering them as a free download.
The list is calculated according to the download counts of popular font download websites.
The fonts are already displayed with the names of them but any text can be mentioned for a customized look of the fonts.
P.S. There are some shareware or demo downloads in the list.
If you want to add a personal twist to the text that is used in your websites or designs then you will like this.
YourFonts is a free service that turns a handwriting into a font.
Process is very simple: you print a template>fill>scan>upload it. The font is auto-generated & you can download your font.
Some examples of the fonts generated can be found here.
Want to win a free copy of MainType (a professional font manager)?
YourFonts is giving a free license of MainType who writes a review about the service.
If WRD gets the free license with this post, then it will be given away to a WRD reader.
Just comment to this post, I’ll be running a random query between the commenters to select the winner (when the license arrives - no earlier than 24 hours).
Update 02.06.2009: Just ran the random query and the winner is: Chomik (comment #35920). Congratulations.
sIFR, the widely-used solution for using any font in websites has various alternatives which were also mentioned at WRD:
Cufón is a new one that only requires JavaScript & once configured, so easy to use.
The process for using Cufón is slightly different. Font to be used must be uploaded to a web-based generator, which converts the file to SVG and then VML automatically.
After that, include the generated .js file into your webpage and use it just like any font.
More technical info about Cufón can be found here.
Requirements: No Requirements
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
Font Squirrel is a fresh website presenting free fonts which can be used in commercial work.
They are well grouped under categories like:
- Blackletter
- Calligraphic
- Comic
- Dingbat
- Grunge & more..
And, new ones added daily.
P.S. Thanks to Ethan from Font Squirrel for the suggestion.
sIFR is one of the most popular solutions for using any font on websites.
There is now another similar solution named sIFR Lite which has some new features but specially much lighter (3.7kb rather than 22kb).
Here are the other differences:
- It auto-detects the text color of the elements (they are entered manually in sIFR).
- It is completely object-oriented.
- It no longer uses CSS selectors. Elements are targeted by tag name and class (a slight loss in ease of use, but faster, lighter, and more maintainable).
The original sIFR is well-tested & widely used but sIFR-Lite is not. So, it would be great to hear your experiences about sIFR-Lite.
Requirements: No Requirements
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
The grid, which helps designers to organize text & images in a rational way, is hard to get used to, but after that, it makes most design related problems disappear.
The Grid System is a resource on grid based designs.
It covers:
- articles
- tools
- books
- templates & more on grids.
It is a very fresh website but already presents handy InDesign & Photoshop grid templates, interesting tools like Syncotype, Phiculator & more.
As the fonts that can be used in websites are limited, there are several solutions to this problem like sIFR or FLIR.
typeface.js is another open source solution which uses JavaSript.
Usage is very simple:
After inserting the typeface.js file to the code a usage like:
<div class="myclass typeface-js" style="font-family: Helvetiker">
Text here in Helvetiker font…
</div>
is enough.
When used with titles or relatively less-texted parts of a website the performance is good but when used with the whole body, it can work slower.
Requirements: No Requirements
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
