Typography Using Web 2.0 – Search or Make Your Own Fonts
There is no doubt about how important good fonts are for graphic designers. Good Fonts are always in high demand. There are free fonts available all over the Internet. But, Are they any good? How does Web 2.0 play in Fonts Domain? Well, fear not, there are some amazing font applications that are cheap (mostly free) and also let you create your own fonts. Here we feature few of them.
Fontstruct
Fontstruct is a free web based font application that lets you build your own fonts, share them, download fonts created by others. Fontstruct provides a grid based font editor where you can quickly construct high-quality True Type fonts. Fontstruct gives you pixel level control while designing your font style, adds shape options to each pixel which can be rounded, triangular, partial blocks etc. Editor gives adjacent character designs tot he designer so that the flow of design is not affected. once you are done, you can very well share your creation with others.
You need not worry, If you don’t have time to create your own font. Fontstruct lets you explore already created fonts, gives preview of your textand so on. It makes your life simple while you search for your perfect font.
DaFont
DaFont is a categorised archive of downloadable fonts. There are comprehensive set of categories to choose from. DaFont lets you preview the text. Fonts can be downloaded in PC or Mac format. DaFont is easy wweb site for fonts and finding the right font is very easy.
MyFonts
Again, MyFonts lets you search and find fonts for your needs, and depending on the font, at a lower cost than design services offer.
Fawnt
Fawnt is a font resource for designers, developers, and anyone that appreciates the web’s highest quality fonts.
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I highly recommend Your Fonts. It is an online font generator that produces high quality fonts.
YourFonts.com
Thanks Mary, for your suggestion. However, we didn’t cover YourFonts as it is basically for converting your own handwriting into font. There are other similar services like http://www.fontifier.com/ etc. We wanted to cover generic font search and creation services.
Thanks for your time again.