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FONTS: Cool "Barnes Erc" Font from dafant
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Head over to dafont and grab the newest font from Eric Wiryanata. it's titled Barnes Erc and sports a funky 3D look.
All the letters are CAPS with the lowercase open and the uppercase filled-in.
Posted by coyle on Tuesday, April 22 @ 08:02:30 MDT
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FONTS: Ro'Ki'Kier Font From Daniel Zadorozny
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Ro'Ki'Kier, from Daniel Zadorozny at Iconian Fonts, comes with the 14 versions! It's meant to evoke what the future would be like from a 1950s perspective. (Remember, by now we were all suppose to be driving to work in flying cars!)
Posted by coyle on Friday, April 11 @ 08:25:46 MDT
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FONTS: Two Sets of Dingbats at Font River
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If you like Dingbats, those wacky creations trapped halfway between clipart and fonts, stop by Font River and see the two new sets they have added. Tajunnan tuolla puolen
by junkohanhero, contains 26 funky little items. Daniel Zadorozny created Birds of a Feather
which features the silhouettes of over 45 various bird.
Posted by coyle on Thursday, March 27 @ 13:13:57 MDT
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FONTS: Millesime font at Chank
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Inspired by French Old Style lettering, Millesime and surrounded by little splatters. looks a if too much ink was applied to the rollers. The edges are soft with very small splatters. Created by Gregory Jacobson, you can download it at Chank. (Last week I watched the documentary, Helvetica, and now have a new appreciation for fonts!)
Posted by coyle on Thursday, February 28 @ 07:10:21 MST
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FONTS: Font River Adds Kitbiya Amerikiya
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From Font River, here's a font that may come in handy with the approach of St. Partrick's Day. Kitbiya Amerikiya is a quirky font with a hint of Celtic heritage. Seeing it just makes me wanna have a pint o' Guinness!
Posted by coyle on Wednesday, February 06 @ 07:29:08 MST
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FONTS: My Turtle Font by Billy Argel
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A quirky new font is up at dafont. My Turtle by Billy Argel comes with something I have never seen before - a Photoshop Brush set with four turtles! That's pretty cool!
Posted by coyle on Friday, February 01 @ 06:22:55 MST
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FONTS: Chank Adds First Free Font of the New Year
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When they need a font for a commercial project, People-in-the-Know visit Chank Fonts for all his great offerings. A few times a year, he generously creates a free font for the masses. This is such a day. Chrylser Electric will remind you of the golden days of the V8.
Posted by coyle on Monday, January 21 @ 07:09:51 MST
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FONTS: daFont Adds Two Cool Fonts.
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daFont posted two new fonts in the Free Section. From Douglas Vitkauskas is Vtks Untitled (previewed below) and Jamaistevie by Vladislav Ivanov. Check them out!
Posted by coyle on Wednesday, January 02 @ 12:00:00 MST
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FONTS: Great Fonts from Pizza Dude
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Ya gotta love a guy nicknamed Pizza Dude (and I mean love in a man-to-man have a beer and talk sports kinda way). From Denmark, Jakob Fischer creates tons of shareware and freeware fonts.
Visit PizzaDude.dk where you'll find unusual creations like Zitcream, previewed below. In the free section, you'll also find desktops and quirky graphics.
Posted by coyle on Wednesday, December 05 @ 15:37:21 MST
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FONTS: Vintage Font at Font River
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A nice collection of font for your Mac can be found at Font River. What I like best is that the fonts are organized by style, not alphabetically. Need a font for Christmas? No problem. Just navigate there via the menus.
Pictured below is Vintage, the newest addition to the Free Section.
Posted by coyle on Wednesday, November 21 @ 08:00:00 MST
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FONTS: [pheist] Posts Font Honoring Her Father
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The talented Stefanie Koerner from [pheist] created a nifty, bitmappy, scripty font and named it after her father! Check out »HeinzHeinrich« and see if it fits with any of your upcoming projects. It's free and her only request is that you use it in a respectable manner.
Posted by coyle on Friday, November 02 @ 05:02:46 MDT
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FONTS: VTKS Rock Garage Band Font
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The newest font by Douglas Vitkauskas is available on dafont. Take a look at VTKS Rock Garage Band. It's enough to make you want to pull the drums out of the closet and get the band back together!
Posted by coyle on Tuesday, October 09 @ 22:10:00 MDT
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FONTS: Free Fonts from Jos Buivenga
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Jos Buivenga just released a new font titled, Anivers, in honor of the anniversary of Smashing Magazine.
I really like the way some of the lowercase letters have unexpected descenders ('f' for example). Visit his site for even more free fonts!
Posted by coyle on Wednesday, September 12 @ 08:07:31 MDT
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FONTS: The Cutty Fruty Font
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Artist Jellyka scanned her own handwriting to create the CuttyFruty font. Her site contains several other handwritten fonts and wallpapers. Stop by for a visit!
Posted by coyle on Friday, September 07 @ 05:07:58 MDT
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FONTS: Font Freak Releases MichaelMas, I mean Mac.
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This is a little embarrassing. Font Freak just relased a new font called, Michaelmas, but I believe it's suppose to be MichaelMac in honor of this site. The owner of the site won't return my calls and he drives right by when I call to him from outside the fenced-in parking lot, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time before we get it all straightened out.
In the meantime, enjoy Michaelmas, and if your name is Daisy, they have a new font for you too!
Posted by coyle on Thursday, August 23 @ 17:50:28 MDT
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FONTS: dafont Adds Two New Free Fonts
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Frakturika and Hawaii Killer are two new free fonts posted at dafont. For me, Frakturika evokes horror and Halloween, and I love the way capital letters wrap around in Hawaii Killer, but I wish it wasn't so distressed.
Posted by coyle on Wednesday, August 15 @ 08:05:37 MDT
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FONTS: da-hey! New font at dafont!
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I must admit that when I look at this font, Bleeding Cowboy, it doesn't evoke images of the Wild West. I'd expect to see it more in a poster for a book by Dan Brown or Ann Rice, but that's why I just run a website and don't create fonts!
Head over to dafont and grab Bleeding Cowboy and view the other new additions!
Posted by coyle on Thursday, July 12 @ 08:08:20 MDT
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FONTS: Font Freak Updates
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Font Freak recently added Daisy to its large collection of free/shareware fonts. A nice feature of this site is the ability to search for fonts based on keywords rather than having to scroll through page after page of images. For example, a search of distressed returns 41 fonts with previews.
Posted by coyle on Tuesday, July 03 @ 07:28:05 MDT
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FONTS: Ballers Delight Font at Chank
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Ballers Delight is a nice looking distressed font, but what makes the download so interesting is that it comes with over 65 images of the font photographed as jewelery. My preview below doesn't do it justice. Visit the site for a better look.
The images remind me the type of folk art you would see in a House of Blues restaurant. Between mixing the font and images, you could create some very nice layouts!
Posted by coyle on Wednesday, June 27 @ 07:00:00 MDT
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FONTS: Custom Vinyl Lettering (An excuse to show-off my Cornhole Game)
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About four years ago in the Chicagoland area, Cornhole (or Baggo) games started appearing at parks and picnics all over town. Never heard of cornhole? Imagine horseshoes with bags of seed rather than iron projectiles (it's much safer when alcohol is involved). When tailgating before a game, you could be certain to hear the sound of one pound cotton bags of corn bouncing off the plywood tops.
It was at this time that the wife and kiddies bought me a custom made White Sox version of the game for my birthday. Over the years, the bags have gotten a little grimy and the boxes are warped and chipped. I downloaded official blueprints and was determined to make my own replacement game.
Here are the materials I used: 4x8 sheet of quality plywood ($25), two quarts of extireor paint and three cans of spray paint ($30), a set of 8 bags in two colors ($40), and finally, custom vinyl lettering ($13). Total cost: $108.00.
My son and I had the boxes built and primered in 3 hours, then started the longer process of masking and painting the Coyle Family Crest. The final piece, which really brought the project to the next level, was the vinyl lettering. Sign Specialists has this great form on their website that lets you upload your own font choice, so you can tell exactly what your lettering will look like. I highly recommend them.
A larger image of the completed Cornhole set is in the Gallery.
Posted by coyle on Monday, June 25 @ 08:12:14 MDT
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FONTS: Free Mac Fonts: Not Just a Wish, It's Also a Domain
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FreeMacFonts.com: not the cleverest of domain names, but who am I to talk! True to their name, they have over 6000 truetype fonts with large previews ready for you to download.
Posted by coyle on Wednesday, June 20 @ 07:30:00 MDT
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FONTS: Fonthead has Free Fonts
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Fornthead sells hundreds of fonts at very reasonable prices, but they're also nice enough to post nine funny fonts for you to download for free. Previewed below is Good Dog.
Posted by coyle on Thursday, June 14 @ 06:55:00 MDT
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FONTS: Da Fonts are in Da House
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They work very hard over at dafont! In the past two weeks, they've updated over a dozen previous fonts and released three news sets: Steak, Circle, and Rollover. They're all free for personal use and looking for a good home.
Posted by coyle on Thursday, May 31 @ 09:34:11 MDT
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FONTS: {pheist} fonts
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Just about every month, {pheist} posts a new freeware font. Currently, there are 20 in the archive. Check it out and see if any of them will work in your next project (you know which one, the flyer you have to make for the big kegger this weekend!).
Posted by coyle on Wednesday, May 30 @ 09:33:33 MDT
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FONTS: Two New Free Fonts at Chank
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Kegger Collegiate is a quintessential athletic font. Use it to announce your next dorm party. Flubber reminds me of something you would see on Saturday morning "School House Rock" (does anyone remember this?). It's childlike and sorta hippie.
Visit Chank for more free fonts and checkout the others listed at reasonable prices.
Posted by coyle on Sunday, May 06 @ 07:34:08 MDT
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