We’ve been around long enough to know that a majority you love graphics and fonts. The trouble with great fonts is they’re getting harder and harder to find; they are either ugly-looking fonts, or they’re bundled with malware. Who wants to scroll through 1000 crappy fonts to find a few good ones? Not me.
We’ve found a site where almost every font is nicely done, and all are free. And before you write and tell me they’re not free, listen up. Each font you download asks for a donation — if you enter the number 0 (as in zero), you will find you can download all the fonts you want for zero dollars. Now, this to me means free. If you really, really like the fonts, and you download a good percentage of the fifty free fonts, you might want to make a small donation, but you’re not required to.
Enough of this, let me get pictorial:
Do they automatically install in my word processing programs? What do I have to do to be able to use them?
I love Lost Type and have used them for years. Thank you for posting this, I just got a new computer and had forgotten about them. Now I can download the fonts I had from them on my other computer. Perfect timing 🙂
Ozark Mtn Nana – No they aren’t automatically installed. They download as a zip file usually. You will need to unzip it, and then you can either right click on the font itself and then click on install or your can drag and drop it into your font folder and it will install that way. Then you’ll be able to use it in any programs that access your fonts.
Love fonts! THANKS!
From what I understand if you send suff over the internet the receiving end won’t see the font unless they have the same font installed. Just saying.
I have no idea how this pertains to the article, but it’s true…in order for a person to see a font they must have a font installed — there are exceptions. There are web services which make fonts viewable on the web that are not installed on (at least not permanently on the computer. But for email, the font used must be installed on the recipient’s computer for it to be view correctly, otherwise the recipient will see whatever their default font is — so sending fancy fonts in email does not work well. However, many people use fonts in graphics, which of course can be seen by everyone.
I forgot to add that they take up memory for your computer also.