Comments on: Free Fonts http://www.blendernation.com/2008/03/22/free-fonts/ Fresh Blender News, Every Day Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:37:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Diesel http://www.blendernation.com/2008/03/22/free-fonts/#comment-325711 Diesel Sun, 18 May 2008 06:04:19 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2008/03/22/free-fonts/#comment-325711 I have a free font available to download on my blog. Click the link. <a href="http://thinkingdiesel.com/2008/05/free-fixd-station-font" rel="nofollow">VIEW AND DOWNLOAD THIS FONT NOW!</a> Enjoy! I have a free font available to download on my blog. Click the link.

VIEW AND DOWNLOAD THIS FONT NOW!

Enjoy!

]]> By: Freakydude http://www.blendernation.com/2008/03/22/free-fonts/#comment-276200 Freakydude Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:25:17 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2008/03/22/free-fonts/#comment-276200 the vollkorn may be a nice one. Can't type in sampletext anywhere to see if it supports CE to begin with. So far the liberation font also includes central europe, which seems to be rare. that's cool... Bitstream vera sans doesn't support it... Vademecum and vahika support CE, vandania supports it, velvenda, Vera humana, vibrocentric, Volan, acme secret agent. Gentium looks really good too, when it is finished, it states it is still a work in progress. Nevertheless, it looks promising. A lot of other fonts from some of these sites mentioned don't support more than the basic set.... that's why I stay away from these free fonts ussually.... Once I get to redesign a few things around here, I might be authorised to change the default font as well..... Going to look into those open font licensed ones. I love open source and there seem to be at least a few of them with high quality, like gentium... the vollkorn may be a nice one. Can't type in sampletext anywhere to see if it supports CE to begin with.
So far the liberation font also includes central europe, which seems to be rare. that's cool…

Bitstream vera sans doesn't support it…

Vademecum and vahika support CE, vandania supports it, velvenda, Vera humana, vibrocentric, Volan, acme secret agent.

Gentium looks really good too, when it is finished, it states it is still a work in progress. Nevertheless, it looks promising.

A lot of other fonts from some of these sites mentioned don't support more than the basic set…. that's why I stay away from these free fonts ussually….

Once I get to redesign a few things around here, I might be authorised to change the default font as well….. Going to look into those open font licensed ones. I love open source and there seem to be at least a few of them with high quality, like gentium…

]]> By: J http://www.blendernation.com/2008/03/22/free-fonts/#comment-275191 J Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:57:14 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2008/03/22/free-fonts/#comment-275191 They may be free, but can they be used for commercial use? They may be free, but can they be used for commercial use?

]]> By: John B http://www.blendernation.com/2008/03/22/free-fonts/#comment-275052 John B Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:30:01 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2008/03/22/free-fonts/#comment-275052 Look at the serifs on the "i" in the Dustismo_Roman_Bold.ttf specimen here: http://www.dafont.com/dustismo-roman.font Compared with the other letters, it looks like an error. Look at the serifs on the "i" in the Dustismo_Roman_Bold.ttf specimen here:
http://www.dafont.com/dustismo-roman.font

Compared with the other letters, it looks like an error.

]]> By: amoose136 http://www.blendernation.com/2008/03/22/free-fonts/#comment-275042 amoose136 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:08:56 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2008/03/22/free-fonts/#comment-275042 Um...while it is important to have resources, might I note that there are a lot of fonts already on the computer from things like open office and gimp. In Ubuntu you can have blender steal these fonts from this directory: "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" Hope you find that useful and thanks for the fonts! Um…while it is important to have resources, might I note that there are a lot of fonts already on the computer from things like open office and gimp. In Ubuntu you can have blender steal these fonts from this directory: "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" Hope you find that useful and thanks for the fonts!

]]> By: Serge Gielkens http://www.blendernation.com/2008/03/22/free-fonts/#comment-274987 Serge Gielkens Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:09:42 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2008/03/22/free-fonts/#comment-274987 I agree with Freakydude and Kerl. Since I started to use Scribus I have become picky on which fonts I use. There is going on a lot behind the scenes in order to create a high quality font. It is not only about how nice it looks to the eye. I agree with Freakydude and Kerl. Since I started to use Scribus I have become picky on which fonts I use. There is going on a lot behind the scenes in order to create a high quality font. It is not only about how nice it looks to the eye.

]]> By: Kerl http://www.blendernation.com/2008/03/22/free-fonts/#comment-274813 Kerl Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:46:05 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2008/03/22/free-fonts/#comment-274813 Here are some free high quality Fonts. Accents and central europe are supported by them. They are free of charge for commercial and privat use and are available in the TTF-format. They also must be well executed technically, because scribus (an open-source page-layout program) would not accept them otherwise - I tested it. Liberation http://www.dafont.com/red-hat.d1608 Bitstream Vera http://www.dafont.com/the-gnome-project.d806 Lacuna http://www.dafont.com/lacuna.font Dustismo http://www.dafont.com/dustismo-roman.font Fontin http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/fontin.html Gentium http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium Here are some free high quality Fonts.

Accents and central europe are supported by them. They are free of charge for commercial and privat use and are available in the TTF-format.
They also must be well executed technically, because scribus (an open-source page-layout program) would not accept them otherwise - I tested it.

Liberation
http://www.dafont.com/red-hat.d1608

Bitstream Vera
http://www.dafont.com/the-gnome-project.d806

Lacuna
http://www.dafont.com/lacuna.font

Dustismo
http://www.dafont.com/dustismo-roman.font

Fontin
http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/fontin.html

Gentium
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium

]]> By: rednelb http://www.blendernation.com/2008/03/22/free-fonts/#comment-274811 rednelb Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:40:22 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2008/03/22/free-fonts/#comment-274811 enjoy: http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/new-free-quality-fonts-vollkorn-union http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/free-quality-font-charis-sil http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/free-quality-font-neuesans http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/the-beauty-of-typography-delicious-fontin enjoy:
http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts
http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/new-free-quality-fonts-vollkorn-union
http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/free-quality-font-charis-sil
http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/free-quality-font-neuesans
http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/the-beauty-of-typography-delicious-fontin

]]> By: Lars http://www.blendernation.com/2008/03/22/free-fonts/#comment-274794 Lars Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:13:13 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2008/03/22/free-fonts/#comment-274794 Thanks for the link, however I often use for fonts the website: http://www.dafont.com/ Thanks for the link, however I often use for fonts the website: http://www.dafont.com/

]]> By: Freakydude http://www.blendernation.com/2008/03/22/free-fonts/#comment-274718 Freakydude Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:47:40 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/2008/03/22/free-fonts/#comment-274718 nice and all that this stuff is free, but you can't see the properties of the font files. Do they support central europe? Do they support cyrillic? West europe, turkey, subscript, superscript etc etc.... fonts with unclear specifications gave me loads of problems in the past. Once you make something everyone's accustomed to, and all of a sudden it needs to be translated to a language that isn't supportd by the font, you're screwed. It'd be nice if the site gave a little more info regarding the features of their fonts. Otherwise you're MUCH better off paying a little bit for one GOOD font than a dozen of bad ones... Not ment to flame, but... this stuff is just risky from a user point of view. nice and all that this stuff is free, but you can't see the properties of the font files.
Do they support central europe? Do they support cyrillic? West europe, turkey, subscript, superscript etc etc….
fonts with unclear specifications gave me loads of problems in the past. Once you make something everyone's accustomed to, and all of a sudden it needs to be translated to a language that isn't supportd by the font, you're screwed.
It'd be nice if the site gave a little more info regarding the features of their fonts. Otherwise you're MUCH better off paying a little bit for one GOOD font than a dozen of bad ones…
Not ment to flame, but… this stuff is just risky from a user point of view.

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