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Posted on 10/02/10 11:22:02 AM |
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josephine harvatt
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Free fonts
I would like to add to my very modest range of fonts, but all the "free" font websites seem to require membership or other payment to download (obviously some new usage of the word "free" that I was hitherto unaware of) - any recommendations/suggestion? _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 10/02/10 11:38:15 AM |
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wayne morton
Master Blender Posts: 97 Reply  |
Re: Free fonts
http://www.dafont.com is my favourite Josephine. No registration required and a huge selection in lots of different categories. A brilliant site. Wayne _________________ Justice for the '96 YNWA |
Posted on 10/02/10 11:43:48 AM |
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redsnapper
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Re: Free fonts
http://www.howtocheatinphotoshop.com/cgi-bin/simpleforum_pro.cgi?fid=07&topic_id=1263395564 _________________ Was auch immer geschieht: Nie dürft ihr so tief sinken, von dem Kakao, durch den man euch zieht, auch noch zu trinken! (e.kästner) |
Posted on 10/02/10 11:46:00 AM |
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wayne morton
Master Blender Posts: 97 Reply |
Re: Free fonts
Forgot to mention that if you ever see a particular font you like either on a website, magazine or even while your out and about with your camera, take a snapshot/scan/photo of the font and goto this website http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont .This website will almost always tell you what font has been used and where you can get it. The search facility is free but some of the fonts you have to pay for. Very useful. Wayne _________________ Justice for the '96 YNWA |
Posted on 10/02/10 11:55:57 AM |
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maiden
Golden Gif Gagster Posts: 471 Reply  |
Re: Free fonts
For comic book style fonts http://www.blambot.com/ is superb plenty of free fonts also some speech bubbles. also http://www.1001fonts.com/index.html has a free downlaod section as does http://www.fontriver.com/ |
Posted on 12/02/10 4:24:29 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply |
Re: Free fonts
Once again thank you all ! Now - where should I save them to if I want to use them in photoshop? _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 12/02/10 5:19:35 PM |
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wayne morton
Master Blender Posts: 97 Reply |
Re: Free fonts
If you are using a PC Josephine you can do it a couple of ways. If you have a new OS like Vista or Windows 7 you can just right click on the font and select install. If you're using Windows XP you will need to go to C:\WINDOWS\FONTS and drop them in there. Once that's done photoshop will automatically recognise the new fonts. Wayne _________________ Justice for the '96 YNWA |
Posted on 14/02/10 4:22:24 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply |
Re: Free fonts
I seem to be struggling - I have downloaded a fontfile directly to fonts, and have also downloaded it to documents, unzipped it and extracted the contents to fonts ... but it does not show up either in the fonts folder or the font menu (even though when I tried to download it again the computer swore blind there was already a copy there.) I have windows xp - what am I doing wrong? _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |