Font Library

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superfly.pngLooking for some fancy new fonts to use in your new Blender project? Jacob Randal sent in a link to a really nice font library.

Jacob wrote:

Tired of using the same boring system fonts with Blender? Well check this site out: http://neatfonts.com. Truly amazing fonts from all over the web can be found here. Many of them will inspire you. You might even find yourself starting a whole Blender project because of one font. Enjoy!

I took a look, tested a few fonts and everything works fine. I also looked around for more font sites but I think that this one is better organised and easier to use than many others, so thanks for a great find, Jacob!

Oh, there is one catch (there always is one, isn’t there?): the site states that to the best of their knowledge, all their fonts are either freeware, demo versions or shareware. No 100% guarantee, or Open Licenses here, sorry!

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    • http://mke3.net Matt

      http://fontleech.com/ has also been reasonably good in the past. The problem with those huge 10001 free fonts sites is that the vast majority of them are crap and it takes a long time to wade through them all.

      Also for reference, which is useful to know when looking for fonts, Blender supports all the major fonts supported by the freetype library, including PostScript Type1 and Type3, TrueType, and OpenType. However fancy OpenType features such as automatic ligatures aren’t supported, and it seems Blender doesn’t even support things like built-in kerning metrics either, but I digress :)

    • http://www.jagarts.com jagarts

      Thanks for the link :)

      The site I like for free fonts is http://www.dafont.com/

    • http://www.myspace.com/5555785rizzo Chit

      Thanks a bunch!!!!!

    • http://www.p3d-service.de crossmaker

      Thanks a lot!

      regards

    • http://www.kxs.pl kxs

      great links. thanks

    • Peter

      Thanks!

      My personal favorite free font site is 1001freefonts.com

    • john

      >> to the best of their knowledge, all their fonts are either freeware, demo versions or shareware.

      I think this is pretty much standard on free font sites. Guess there is no way of knowing when they have that many fonts, but for non-commercial projects it really shouldn’t be a problem. I would double-check the font before using it in a commercial one.

    • npickle

      blambot.com has a bunch of comic related fonts. Some are free some are not but they are all good.

    • Robin

      Another nice font site is http://www.themeworld.com. They got organised and good fonts + some other stuff like desktop backgrounds.

    • Jedrzej_s

      Somebody know free fonts for commercial use ???

    • http://omarmodesto.tripod.com Omar Modesto

      http://www.getfreefonts.info/ is a nice little font resource that I’ve been using for my graphic design projects.

    • Alden

      Dafont is definitely the best font resource out there, but most of the fonts are licensed and you need permission to use them in your project…

    • http://www.rock.sannet.ne.jp/lab1092/ Manda

      Thanks Jacob.

      There are cool alphabet/hiragana/katakana fonts.
      http://www.flopdesign.com/

      and Some Japanese pages about (TrueType) fonts;
      http://www.fontfontfont.com/
      http://www.aboutfont.com/

    • http://www.osysi.net Bmud

      Dafont is the bomb.

    • rpgsimmaster
    • Coby (Jacob Randal)

      I’ve found many of the fonts on neatfonts.com contain a readme file stating whether or not the font is free to use in commercial projects. But some don’t even have a readme, that must mean they’re free right? :P I wouldn’t risk it though… the most beneficial thing would be to only collect fonts that are free for commercial use. I’m glad dafont.com shows whether or not the font file is free. It’s a real time saver. Now if you guys will excuse me, I’ve got some shareware fonts I need to delete…

    • SephirothTBM
    • Jedrzej_s

      Coby (Jacob Randal):

      “the most beneficial thing would be to only collect fonts that are free for commercial use.”

      YES !!! Maybe somebody will collect link / fonts – only free for commercial use… This would be GREAT…