Maybe this web font thing has a chance. It's nice to see some movement forward anyway. Maybe Google can unite the divided clans and forge one clear path ahead so everyone can work on making more fonts available instead of everyone trying to invent a different technology to deliver them.
Totally forgot a friends dad, Keith Bates, is a type designer, he's a few free ones on his site. Buy local, that's what I say (not had much of a look yet)...
...ah, bless, he's done a type for her too Anna's font
"The Lost Type Co-Op is a Pay-What-You-Want Type foundry, the first of its kind.
Founded by Riley Cran and Tyler Galpin, originally in a whirlwind 24 hour adventure to distribute a single typeface, Lost Type has blossomed into a full fledged foundry, distributing fonts from designers all over the world, with its unique model.
Users have the opportunity to pay whatever they like for a font, you can even type in '$0' for a free download.
100% of funds from these sales go directly to the designers of the fonts, respectively.
Lost Type takes no cut of sales, and holds no funds."
this is so lovely. i used it for a wedding announcement.
Valentina is a classic didone that follows some of the canons proposed by Bodoni in the eighteenth century but incorporates many of the characteristics of the antique Spanish punches of the time. It is a complete font of 457 glyphs, in which there are 125 alternative lower cases or the 46 ligatures.
"Pissjar Sans is a free typeface evoking the unique letterforms of urine on cotton fabric. What's remarkable about it is the fastidious attention to detail and workmanship evinced by type designers in pursuit of what could easily have been something dashed off and doomed to dafont.com obscurity. They really put their backs into it.
HOW WAS IT DONE? We built a custom frame and tried out loads of different fabrics, using some good pieces of worn bed sheets with the perfect absorbency to cover the frame. Then we just started to pee a lot, one letter per pee session. When the bladder was empty we had like 5 seconds to photograph the frame before it bled out. After that we vectorized the photo and edited it with a font software.
HOW LONG TIME DID IT TAKE? The peeing took approximately six months, plus about a month or so to finish up the font.
DID YOU CHEAT? Well, we worked on the R for like two weeks until we gave up and had to recreate it from three different peeing sessions.
Perfect for wedding invitations and children's birthdays."
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st. marie thin (otf and webfont) free download from stereotypes
Garton
or.... Go.
...ah, bless, he's done a type for her too Anna's font
Bosko Block - by FontSpring
some nice, some not so much
New freebie from my favourite library, Font Fabric.
/me downloads
http://fontfabric.com/null-free-font/
It's a pay what you can model:
http://losttype.com/browse/
Some beautiful faces on there.
"The Lost Type Co-Op is a Pay-What-You-Want Type foundry, the first of its kind.
Founded by Riley Cran and Tyler Galpin, originally in a whirlwind 24 hour adventure to distribute a single typeface, Lost Type has blossomed into a full fledged foundry, distributing fonts from designers all over the world, with its unique model.
Users have the opportunity to pay whatever they like for a font, you can even type in '$0' for a free download.
100% of funds from these sales go directly to the designers of the fonts, respectively.
Lost Type takes no cut of sales, and holds no funds."
check it out and download (free).
Valentina
linotype rebrands to monotype, brings you a couple of free font packs to celebrate!
http://www.linotype.com/cart/1188375/MonotypeCelebrationFreeFontPromo1ValuePack-product.html
http://twelvetwenty.nl/goodies/bigmouth
http://twelvetwenty.nl/goodies/albatross-free-font/
http://www.simonstratford.com/airbag/
there're some good ones in there, too!
Pissjar Sans
"Pissjar Sans is a free typeface evoking the unique letterforms of urine on cotton fabric. What's remarkable about it is the fastidious attention to detail and workmanship evinced by type designers in pursuit of what could easily have been something dashed off and doomed to dafont.com obscurity. They really put their backs into it.
HOW WAS IT DONE?
We built a custom frame and tried out loads of different fabrics, using some good pieces of worn bed sheets with the perfect absorbency to cover the frame. Then we just started to pee a lot, one letter per pee session. When the bladder was empty we had like 5 seconds to photograph the frame before it bled out. After that we vectorized the photo and edited it with a font software.
HOW LONG TIME DID IT TAKE?
The peeing took approximately six months, plus about a month or so to finish up the font.
DID YOU CHEAT?
Well, we worked on the R for like two weeks until we gave up and had to recreate it from three different peeing sessions.
Perfect for wedding invitations and children's birthdays."
https://www.pissjar.com/
DSE Typewriter Font
https://webonastick.com/fonts/dse-typewriter/