Posts tagged font recs
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TGIF! Here’s a great free font!

Peony by Sarah Rudkin is an awesome chunky, hand lettered font. I would also highly recommend visiting her website and checking out her icons for an adorable corgi illustration.  

Download at dafont.

This week’s (I say as if these have been consistent) font rec is a limited-time free good on Creative Market. Forbidden Isle is a great 70s style tiki number and available free for three more days so get it fast. 

Download at Creative Market.

Get Ready for Some Color Fonts

Later this week I’ll be releasing my first attempt at a color font so it seems like a good time to look at some of the awesome examples that are already out there.

If you need a quick overview of color fonts - how they work, where you can use them, etc. - colorfonts.wtf and Adobe Typekit have helpful primers. Unfortunately, support on the web (Firefox and Microsoft Edge only) isn’t great just yet but these fonts are still worth checking out now.

Free Fonts

Bungee by David Jonathan Ross Font Poster

Bungee by David Jonathan Ross

Not only is this font great, this page is a great example of horizontal scroll page design.

Color Tube by Ivan Filipov Font Poster

Color Tube by Ivan Filipov

Playbox by Matt Lyon Font Poster

Playbox by Matt Lyon

Creative Market (Premium) Fonts

Olcino by Igor Petrovi Font Poster

Olcino by Igor Petrovic

Memphis by Anugraha Design Font Poster

Memphis by Anugraha Design

Bouquet by bloomxxvi Font Poster

Bouquet by bloomxxvi

Haven’t done one of these in a while but I was recently looking up pirate fonts (for work) and came across Black Sam’s Gold by Redruth’s Basement Software.

It has a great backstory (based on a real pirate map from a real pirate shipwreck) and the set includes three distinct fonts. The dingbat map icons are my favorite and pictured above but an actual alphabet is also available.

Download at Font Space.

I don’t recommend a lot of cursive fonts (not sure why, I don’t have anything against them) but Konstytucja Polska cleaned by Tomasz Skowroński is pretty great.

Download at dafont.

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Look at me remembering to say what fonts are good!

Dummkopf by Bogstav is a fun messy, handwritten font and the demo version is available for free. 

Download at dafont.

Trying to stay in the holiday spirit with my font suggestion, so here’s Xmas Sweater Stitch by Chequered Ink. I’ve seen a few knit sweater looking fonts but what really sets this one apart is the extra Christmas shapes you get in the symbols.

Download at dafont.

Back to some fonts. Scandilover is a cool handwritten font by Katsia Jazwinska. The demo is available for free and the full version is up on Creative Market. Seems good for winter/Christmas/etc. projects.

Download at dafont.

Nandaka Western is one of many awesome Old West style fonts by Goma Shin. It’s free and caps only.

Download at dafont.