Cross-Stitch Font
Add some needlework-inspired goodness to your type with Costura, a free downloadable cross-stitch font from designer Simon Wiesmayr on Font Squirrel! [Via How About Orange]
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A tiny screen font you can actually download and use, free
A reader who enjoyed Monday’s post about Ken Perlin’s astoundingly tiny screen font , but was disappointed to learn that the font was not available for use, wrote to point out Domenico Mazza’s “Zepto,” which is available for free over at MyFonts.com. Shown above is a comparison of Perlin’s Tiny Font to Zepto, with the same text, in the same screen area, at comparable size and density. You can see that Zepto isn’t quite as readable as Perlin’s font, but still does pretty well.
Designing the smallest legible screen font
Legibility, of course, is a matter of degree, but given that NYU computer science professor Ken Perlin’s tiny font can fit 500 words into a 320 x 240 pixel rectangle, I am surprised at how readable it remains. “My design,” he explains, “assumes that screen pixels are horizontal striped as RGBRGB, as are most LCD screens these days.”
Cool free cut-and-fold block font
Cut on the solid lines, fold on the dashes, and glue on the striped tabs to create dimensional block letters of your text.
Letterblocks: Alphabet blocks with a twist
Design collective The Design Office has created kids’ blocks that feature fragments of letters, allowing children to form their own characters using multiple blocks. Children of a young age play with small wooden blocks to learn the alphabet. Letters lead to words that lead into sentences and so on. Our oversized kraft boxes reintroduce the […]
Free Handwritten Fonts
Tripwire Magazine links to 45 free handwritten fonts perfect for you to use in your design projects! Pictured above are some of my favorites.
Molecular Typography
CRAFT blogger Rachel (Average Jane Crafter) found this cool free font, Molecular Typography, designed by Mithila Shafiq.
