If you haven’t done so already you really should have a look at Matt Cutts’ blog. He is an engineer at Google and his blog is full of pearls of wisdom about search engine optimization. When trying to learn how to rank better in Google you can’t do much better than reading advice from an insider.
Before I get into the free fonts themselves I have to mention a very useful tool called What The Font. If I ever need to find out what font was used in a particular design I go straight here. For the record, I wish I did, but I have no association with this site whatsoever.
Upload a Jpeg image and Whatthefont will give you it’s best guesses as to what the font is. It usually gives you 4 to 10 good suggestions, which is useful if the original is out of your budget and you think you can get away with another more affordable font. Best of all, it also tends to be very accurate.
In the example above, it may not have gotten the exact font but it was close enough for my purposes and a lot faster than I would have been had I searched through my available fonts.
If you want to identify a font in ’20 questions’ style, try Identifont which will ask you a series of questions about the font characters.
While all the fonts listed below this top section are free (check the license to be sure) You can’t always be assured of their quality and most only come in one flavour (No lowercase, no Italic, etc) If you want to be sure you are getting a good quality font that will behave as you expect it to, MyFonts.com is a great place to purchase professional fonts, as are Fonts.com, ITCFonts.com, Linotype.com and ITCFonts.com
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9 Beautifully designed professional fonts by Jos Buivenga free for commercial and professional use. Highly readable and very useful multipurpose fonts.
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Font Squirrel aims to be the best resource for high-quality, commercial-use, FREE fonts. They search out free fonts on the web and hand pick the quality fonts.
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The Font Diner has a Nice collection of free Mac and PC fonts as well as quality pay fonts.
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34 Free Fonts from Jason Ramirez
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Nice free chunky fonts from Nils von Blanc
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16 Free Fonts from Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute
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20 Free fonts from fontbros.com
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Currently offering 8316 fonts. Sorted by style, look, dingbats, etc. Also searchable.
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1001 Fonts has, well, probably a lot more than that. Nicely sorted into about 40 categories including:
Brandname,Calligraphic, Gothic,Caps Only,Comic, Cartoon, Decorative, Fancy, Digital, Pixelated, Dingbat, Symbol, Dingfont, Letterbat, Foreign Imitation, Frames, Border, Graffiti, Scribbled, Grunge, Eroded, Handwritten,Hard to Read, Holiday, Seasonal, Horror, Scary, Hot, Cold, Monospaced, Movie, Television, Music, Outlined, Retro, Romantic, Cute, Sans Serif, Science-Fiction, Script, Serif, Shadowed, 3D, Stenciled, Techno, Futuristic, Typewritten, Warped, Distorted Western, New & Fresh, Most Popular, Top Rated, Most Talked About
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63 hand picked Grunge Fonts
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A selected collection of nice free fonts
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Image themed fonts (Animals, Cartoons, Comic (some seen above) Christmas Fonts (also above) Decorative, Easter, etc)
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3 nice and free, professionally designed fonts from Fontshop.com for Mac and PC
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9,000 free downloadable fonts from Fontspace
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28 Free Fonts from Douglas Vitkauskas of VTKS design
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4 Hand Drawn fonts designed by Eric Wiryanata
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Does Explorer 7 support CSS 2.0? What about Firefox 2, Opera 8? What about your visitors that still use Netscape, can they access your RSS feed or view PNGs? All these questions and more are answered in a few handy charts.
This site claims to be an impartial reviewer of web hosts.
from the site:
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While one should always be sceptical of claims of impartiality, this site has a very wide range of reviews and it’s useful to compare available service plans when finding one that meets your needs.
Here’s a useful reference page of common or "web safe" fonts. There are even screen shots of what those fonts look like in various browsers with different configurations on both PC and Mac.
If you’ve ever had someone ask for a candy corn yellow banner with faded jade coloured text you will appreciate the usefulness of this webtool. You can also choose a colour by name from the dropdown list of over 1500 named colours to get the corresponding hex and RGB numbers for that colour. You can also pick a colour on the colour wheel and get the name.
I have been avoiding mentioning jQuery but I don’t think it makes sense to ignore it anymore. It’s so popular and useful that to ommit it from this blog would be a foolish ommission.
You will no doubt have come across jQuery by now, and you’ve certainly seen sites that use it whether you know it or not. If you are feeling intimidated by it or simply want to learn about it, nettuts.com has a great introduction to it including 15 resources to help you get a grip on it from scratch,
This 7 minute video Gives a great comprehensive overview of the basics involved in using Photoshop to output a webpage design from Photoshop using slices.
It covers everything from creating slices, naming, defining background colours instead of images to exporting HTML or CSS.
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