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BONUS: Previously seen only on the Mac platform, "Sumdumgoi" was created by Mike Allard and is now available for the PC platform in true type format. Created by Jonathan Smith, "Hirosh" is also a fan favorite with a Japanese theme. HOW TO GET THE ABOVE FONTS: (1) Click the banner at the very top of this page, (2) select & copy (from edit menu) any paragraph of the web site you are directed to, (3) then e-mail us at Chi-International@Prodigy.net with the subject "Bonus Fonts" and tell us what you've seen (paste from edit menu to e-mail). We'll send you the following complimentary fonts!


Pamela
Chi International Font columnist Pamela Sarne provides her graphic design tips in the far right column.

Freeware & Shareware Classics

Fashioned after ballons, this detailed font even has tie stubs at the bottom of each balloon. Use it for festive occasions like party flyers and invitations.

Reminiscent of the 70's "bell bottom" pants comes Bell Bottom, the font. Before hitting the discos, use this font to type up messages to your totally groovy friends.

From ABCTech, this font appears to be bodini bold but with a twist. Well, actually it's more like a wave. Guess what; it's Freeware too.

Creating this font to save time and for a more controlled look to his designs, author Dave Greenawalt recalls, "I got the idea for this font after working as a T-shirt designer for some time. Many of the design I created had a distressed look to them. Basicly I'd take a laser print of the type and crumple it up so the toner would pop off in some areas. I'd then stick it in the camera and shoot it."

Containing complete upper & lower case numbers, punctuation, and kerning pairs, Elbjorg is an unusual artistic font that makes a good headline font, or for strings of text.

"Hey lttle buddy!" Gilligan's Island is a font based on the show of the same name (duh). Best at larger point sizes, author Mark Riddle states, "It was created from scratch by recreating the letters of the opening credits and the main title logo. This font is also perfect for giving your documents that fun and tropical look.

Spending his whole summer working on this typeface, author Marty Snyder professes, "I contemplated quiting, but didnt. Heres why: This is an exact copy of a hand-penned example made by Frederick Goudy, himself; it contains, as a result, beautiful nuances and subtle curves."

Designed by David Rakowski, Nixon In China is a font designed to look like display printing on many Chinese restaurant menus. Remember to bring your chopsticks.

Nirvana Roman has a very design oriented feel to it that makes it quite striking and original. Creating the font for a comic, author Donnie Lee states, "I named the font Nirvana not after the rock band, but for the project that it was designed for: the story of a disenchanted vampire's search for her nirvana.

Named for the person that wanted this Gothic font, creator Mike Allard states, "I think it kind of looks like it came off an imported beer bottle label!"

An all-caps font resembling Torino. It has Victorian-type pointing fingers, pointing right, superimposed so that the hands look like they are grasping the letters as well as pointing rightward.

Created by Steven J. Lundeen, "pookie" a slightly-depressed typewriter font inspired by a pony-tailed, 1962 volkswagen bus driving, 8-track and thriftstore vinyl loving knucklehead of a kid brother.

Created by Chris Bowman and Jason Thorpe, this is a font inspired by the handwriting on the Temple of the Dog, Pearl Jam, and Mother Love Bone album covers. It is belived to be Jeff Ament's handwriting.

Aligned to the left with a touch of class, Voco Script has an appeal that reminds one of a French caffe without the rude waiters.

Spacing & Legibility

The balance of line spacing ("leading") and word spacing is one of the most important factors affecting the legibility of type. If the amount of space between lines of type is equal to or less than the amount of space between words, the line of type begin to lose their visual integrity and become difficult to read.

The Anatomy of Type

The structure of the letters in the Roman, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets are based on ancient stone-carving techniques. This is the main factor that differentiates these alphabets from Asian and Middle-Eastern writing systems, which are based on brush strokes.

Letters carved in stone could not have strokes that started and ended abruptly, so craftsmen allowed the strokes to taper at the ends. These were the first serif (embellished) letterforms, and serifs are still a common element in type design. Sans serif, or unembellished, type styles didn't come along until the mid-1800's and were considered to be quite unusual at the time.

Because the earliest typefaces were carved or punched into solid blocks of wood or metal, all type measurement systems historically relate to these three-dimensional objects, although with today's technology typesetting is, for intents and purposes, a two-dimensional process.

Type is measured in points, with each point being equal to approximately 1/72nd of an inch. The reason 72-point type is much less than an inch in height is because the point measurement refers not to the printed letter itself, but to the measurement of the block of wood or metal on which it was originally carved!

Pamela Sarne




Font Links

A huge archive of over 250 fonts can be found at Acid Fonts from funky & formal to outrageous.

If you're having trouble installing your fonts, Font Maniac tells you how to unzip and load downloaded fonts and it also has a nice selection of true type fonts.

Fontaholics Anonymous understands your problem of needing a font fix and encourages it with some great links to feed your addiction.

Anton's World has shareware and freeware fonts categorized in an organized manner. This site shows you the creativity of a font lover across the world in Munich, Germany.

The Red Sun has around 200 fonts for preview and download. Need we say more?

Font Mania has one shareware font per week plus some good links.

Ray Larabie's Freeware Typeface of the Week provides you with a different font each week along with a nice archive as well.

A site that should impress any Gen-X'er, Cheops Fonts has some retro-tech fonts that should set you in gear into the next century.



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