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Skriven 2007-01-26 17:09:03 av Charles Scaglione (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 27511 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Fonts ?
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On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:48:02 -0500, "Alan Zisman -> Charles Scaglione"
<alan@zisman.ca> wrote:

 CS>> BTW, most of the free fonts that are found floating around on the net
 CS>> are usually very basic or a copy of the good sets.  Adobe fonts are
 CS>> the best IMO but they're not inexpensive.

 AZ> Just got a copy of Brian Livingston/Paul Thurrott's new Windows Vista
 AZ> Secrets book. (Not a free review copy- I actually spent money on it
 AZ> because I've respected both of these guy's work over the years).

 AZ> Brian, some may recall, published a series of Windows Secrets volumes
 AZ> dating back at least to Win 3.0... but skipped XP. I think he was in a
 AZ> snit over Product Activation, but I may be mis-remembering. (Can anyone
 AZ> enlighten me)?

You remember correctly, Brian was quite upset over product activation
but I'm glad to see he's back in form with his new book about Vista.

BTW, was strolling through CompUSA this afternoon (store sits across
the highway from our new ministry) and saw a whole new line of HP
machines loaded with Vista.  Copies of all 5 editions of Vista were
likewise stacked up and ready to be sold starting Jan 31st.  Price
differences in the particular version of Vista pre-loaded were
reflected in the final price of the HP machine.

 AZ> Anyway, the connection to this thread is the book's recommendations
 AZ> about free fonts. In the whole, the authors (and I) agree with you that
 AZ> most of the online free fonts are  not very good-- they note "... if you
 AZ> query a search engine for free fonts, you're likely to get a huge list
 AZ> of web sites that have truly horrible products".

 AZ> They recommend Vitaly Friedman's free font list:

 AZ> www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts

 AZ> It includes 'Delicious', a font they describe as "graceful and
 AZ> professionally drawn".

 AZ> Other collections of free fonts recommended by Livingston & Thurrott
 AZ> include:

 AZ> Fonteria: http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/klein03

This site is loaded with lots of unusual fonts.  Great for web design.

 AZ> Designer in Action: www.designerinaction.de/fonts/show.php?art=fonts

Even includes fonts for the Mac.

 AZ> Typemotion: www.typemotion.de/_typographie/lacuna.php

Helps if you understand German.  But not difficult to navigate and
download.

 AZ> Apostrophic Laboratories: http://apostrophiclab.pedroreina.net/

Great collection!   But brush up on your Spanish first.  <g>

 AZ> Identifont: http://www.identifont.com/free-fonts.html

Very nice handwriting fonts included.  Jean, take note.

Thanks.  Good sites, all.

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