3 Great Places To Download Free Fonts And 1 Free Font Manager To Rule Them All
Oh god, I’m so cheese with that title. Anyhow, on with the article.
I usually start a design out by opening a new document and adding all the required text and elements I need, such headlines, details, legal and logos. Depending on the images, I need a font that will work well with the overall theme or vice versa. More often than not, people can work with a limited pool of fonts on unlimited projects. Such is the case with people I work with, and I wonder how they get on with it. Their prevailing argument is that too much time can be wasted going through the font list, which is true. Taking into account that I have 1200+ fonts at the moment, I do spend a fair amount of time trying to find that perfect font.
At this point, I have so many fonts that I haven’t had the need or inclination to find more. Whenever I’m looking for something different I pop on over to 2 great sites that offer free downloads of fonts. Granted the majority will be free but the fonts available can be freeware, shareware, demos or public domain depending on the use. The downloads often include readme files with details on what you can do with the font. SearchFreeFonts.com has a huge library of 13,000+ free fonts and 23,000+ commercial fonts. And DaFont.com offers over 7,000+ fonts which are sometimes available in both Windows and MAC. Each site has their own features with articles and tips sections, so check them out. Either way, that’s a whole lot of free fonts.
I prefer to have a variety when it comes to fonts and a great way to manage them all is to use a font manager. The Font Thing is a fantastic app that allows you to browse, install, uninstall, view, print, copy, and delete multiple TrueType fonts at once. You can also write notes for each font, categorize them by serif, sans serif, script and whatnot, preview and save sample text, and even place them collections. The best part is that it’s FREE.
Update: I have come across another site where you can download even more free fonts at UrbanFonts.com
Then, use this to manage them: The Font Thing