djohn Posted January 25, 2005 Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 Not quite sure where to put this thread but I think you'll find it very useful. Just found this excellent site via a link from GANDALF <|:-)>Hundreds of free fonts to suit every occasion, just spent the last 20 minutes looking and downloading several examples, so if your looking for some new fonts give this site a try.datafont :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 25, 2005 Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 Perhaps I'm being a bit unfair but I would be somewhat apprehensive about downloading anything form this hypercritical being. Or perhaps he's changed since my days at the other place (I doubt it though :( ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djohn Posted January 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 I think you have every right to be cynical –pops- its not often that the old wizard shares anything with the forum (except his sarcasm) but the site looks OK, I’ve download quite a few fonts to a separate folder and will be trying some out later on today.I managed to find Park Avenue, a font I had been using in the past, but lost in removing some software, also some very useful Brush-stroke fonts for poster making. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 25, 2005 Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 Just downloaded and installed a few rather nice ones thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D4\/!d Posted January 25, 2005 Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 most useful - thanks for that.all I need now is a nice little app to display them (I'm esp interested in the numerals) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 There are quite a lot that I have not seen elsewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Welcome as these fonts may be, take care that you only download ones that are going to be useful to you and also, be aware that effects of a fancy font may be totally useless on another machine that doesn't have it installed. In other words, only use them on finished pieces of work - printed on paper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Welcome as these fonts may be, take care that you only download ones that are going to be useful to you and also, be aware that effects of a fancy font may be totally useless on another machine that doesn't have it installed. In other words, only use them on finished pieces of work - printed on paper.I use them on greetings cards. So I like to get some different ones that the recipients may not have seen before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djohn Posted January 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 I thought you might find a few nice ones there andsome, especially the Christmas ones. :)PS: Don't forget you can always download as many as you want but keep them in a separate folder, just move over to the fonts folder when you want to use them, then place them back in the storage folder. I do it this way and have over a thousand fonts on the PC but less than 200 hundred in the fonts folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 I thought you might find a few nice ones there andsome, especially the Christmas ones. :)PS: Don't forget you can always download as many as you want but keep them in a separate folder, just move over to the fonts folder when you want to use them, then place them back in the storage folder. I do it this way and have over a thousand fonts on the PC but less than 200 hundred in the fonts folder.Good point. I have installed them so far in the normal fonts folder. If I put them into a separate folder how do I make them available for use when I want them, in say Power Point, Word or Publisher? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Place a folder, say, on your desktop. When you wish to use them, put the file in C:\WINNT\FontsWhen you're through, move it back to the folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 How do you move it back? Can you just drag it back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 How do you move it back? Can you just drag it back?Yup. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 Cheers. I will make a folder and label it Extra fonts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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