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The Best Website to Download Free Fonts!
I really wanted to share this cool font site with our readers - I have come to rely on it for designing new sites and adding some added flair to older sites. UrbanFonts is the name of the site and is the one place I recommend for free fonts as well as paid for fonts.
The site is easy to navigate, search and browse. The fonts are organized by useful categories which will save you the time and headache of scrolling through long lists. Not to mention it will help you stay focused on choosing the right font style for your project. Unlike other free font sites, these guys seem to do a really nice job separating the “wheat from the chaff” and include what I consider some of the best fonts on the web. If you don’t like what you see in the free downloadable fonts area, UrbanFonts also offers a neat selection of affordable high-quality fonts. The other nice feature of the site is that there is a good selection of well written articles about fonts - helpful even for the more experienced designer. If the articles are not enough for you check out the UrbanFonts Blog and Forum.
Just Discovered another Free Resource over at Crestock.com - Check Out Their Post “25 Best Free Fonts”
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Creative, Inspiring, Thoughtful and Cool
You have to check out these two online websites that perhaps you have never heard of… I stumbled these sites while surfing online for a possible holiday gifts for my friends and family.
This co-founders of this earth friendly “sustainable design for living” website was co-founded by Paul Donald and Tracy Brien. Paul spent 12 years in graphic design and magazine publishing - he helped create Spy, Wired, The Industry Standard and Sunset (check them out when you get a chance). Tracy has “extensive knowledge of environmental issues and sustainable, small-scale community development” - she has worked for such organizations as Greenpeace, the International Rivers Network, and International Development Exchange.
In this case mixing design and environmentalism results in a web design that not only inspires us but also offers cool, thoughtful and wholly appealing product on every level. I highly recommend reading their What is Branch? section - think paradigm shift for shopping.
Blub.com is the other site which I think is the “bee’s-knee’s” and brings personalization and creativity to a new level. The website is a genius idea that is capturing every bit of of the perosnalization trend - similar to the US Postal service or www.stamps.com perosnalization service which allows you to customize stamps with your own pictures. Blurb.com is the ulitmate in capturing the current personalization trend: It gives the everyday person the ability to make a linen bound, proefessional-qaulity book for next to nothing.
“Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the joy of books – reading them, making them, sharing them, and selling them.”
Creating your own book is simple - download their free software, import your pics and images, design your ideal layout and creat a masterpiece. The end product is a professionally designed (by you) book that has the same quality as anything you would pull off the shelves of Borders, Barns & Noble or other bookstores.
Ok, so this post was a little off the beaten path - but it is shopping season and also the web design and creativity of both sites is very inspiring.