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Links to a few font downloads, font sources for fonts used in the sets, font search engines, graphics tools, free to inexpensive graphics editors, and info for web masters. As I find more resources that would be of help to you, I'll add them here. All links, except any downloads, will open in the same window. I won't hold you captive to this site, at least not on this page. ;-) Note: All sites below were viewed in McAfee Site Advisor-enabled browser. Sites deemed unsafe were removed from this page. Quick Click Links Font Downloads (TTF only except as noted)
Font Shop Freebies - Get a free, limited time only sample of one of their featured fonts. Subscription to their monthly newsletter is not required but submitting an e-mail address is. P22 Snowflake font - Download for free this cool snowflake font for either the Mac or Windows. It's created from their alphabet and dingbat fonts. Read how to use it in my blog post from December 21, 2005. Also consider signing up with their e-mail lists. Like the Font Shop, P22 offers free demo downloads of fonts but only to their e-mail list subscribers. Like the font foundries/sellers above, Scriptorium also offers demo downloads of their wonderful fonts, many of them historically based, when you sign up for their e-mail newsletters. I love their Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau and Psychedelic fonts. I've listed most of the fonts used on the sets by font name followed by the source(s) where you will find the download or the buy option. I try to list the designer or foundry web site, if they have one, then a distributor web site such as a font archive or font sales site, if they don't. Note that I usually send you to their main page. You must navigate to their free font or freeware section or select by alpha or use their search, typing in the name of the font. Not all web sites below offer the fonts listed for Mac users. Mac OS 9 and earlier users, however, may be able to use one of a few shareware software to convert the Windows/OS X True Type fonts for use with your OS. Reminder: Commercial (pay) fonts are copyright-protected as are almost all free and shareware fonts. Few are in the public domain. If Mac versions do not exist, ask the font foundry, font designer or font distributor first. Same advice goes for PC and *nix users for Mac font conversions to PC/*nix use. 12 Saru Yellow Fog - sorry, no sources currently available now. Instead you can substitute almost any Asian type font for this one. ActionIs - Font
Freak (PC & Mac) or download from links above Basehead - Font
Freak Castaway (PC
TT & Mac PS) - Rotodesign Dear Teacher Normal -
DaFont Gaeilge 1 - Font
Garden or download PC TTF version on this page
above Halcion (PC & Mac)
- Apostrophic
Lab at Typoasis, Pedroreina.net
(see 0010), Font
Paradise, DaFont Icklips - Apostrophic Lab at Typoasis (PC only), Pedroreina.net (see 0008 PC & Mac), Font Connection (PC & Mac), Urban Fonts (PC & Mac) Jayne (see the Your Font selections) - Font Garden KariKatzi (see the Your Font
selections) - Font
Garden Lucida Casual (commercial) - Fonts.com Maynard (PC & Mac)
- Rotodesign Nadall - Abstract
Fonts Oh My God Stars! - WhoAmI Design at Typoasis, Font Garden Pants Patrol - Larabie
Fonts Reporter Two (commercial/
shareware) - Font
Trader, Absolute
Fonts Archive ("R" page 7), Fonts.com Scriptina (PC & Mac)
- Apostrophic
Lab at Typoasis, Pedroreina.net (see
0158), About.com,
DaFont (see
Script-->Calligraphy) Tabitha - Italia
Software (#7 on the page NOTE: website is currently
being re-designed) Usenet - Pedroreina.net (see 0029), DaFont, Font Connection VivaldiD (commercial/ shareware) - Fontage.com, Flashkit, Fonts.com Wasser - Anke-Art Font Convertor Software Links for Mac OS 9 TTConvertor (shareware) - Font Freak, Font Monkey (see FAQ page), Typenow.net TransType SE by FontLab, also available for the PC, $97 US FontClerk freeware from Yamada Language Center is no longer available (download link doesn't work); originator site (creality.com) is no longer around, as the domain is now an auction site for Macs. Currently available Font Clerk is described as a shareware font reporting and management tool not a conversion tool. See page at Tucows, the only place where I found working download links. Since the software originator's web site isn't around any longer, how do you pay them anyway? Edit: Good news! It seems that the font management tool can also convert fonts. Besides Tucows, the download for FontClerk can be found at the bottom of the Scriptorium utilities web page. And for some interesting reading on fonts in general, see this article at Design News. Windows Users: CrossFont from Acute Systems can convert Win TT and PS Type 1 between Windows and Mac, and convert PS Type 1 to Open Type for Windows and Mac. Costs $45 US to buy with 15-day trial period. FontHit Online Image Editing Tool - for putting text on buttons MyImager.com
- this site allows .jpg format images. No sign-ups required. Graphics Programs - Recommendations I downloaded and evaluated some free and low-cost graphics programs for Windows you can use to put text on buttons and headers. Super for all you do-it-yourselfers. Prices in U.S. dollars. If you're a Mac user and can recommend a good graphics program, preferably free, please email me. Windows Only Paint Shop Pro - of course! This is what I use. Latest "paint" version 9 costs way less than the original new price of $129 USD. Since Corel bought out Jasc for this software, the direction it's taking seems more towards manipulating photographs, beginning with version 10. For those of you wanting to use Jasc tubes, which Corel still offers on their web site, you'd want to get version 9 or earlier. Just do a search on your favorite search engine or web directory (like Yahoo!) for Paint Shop Pro. Always go to reputable web or brick-and-mortar companies, though. RealDraw Pro v.2.45 - 30 day evaluation. This is an amazing program that saves in its own formats of .rdw, .idr, and RealDraw Editable E-JPG, but can save in those formats plus .wmf, .jpg, .png, and .bmp. To put text on my graphics, you need to open and save as .rdw or RD E-JPG first, then add text and re-save as .jpg. If you decide to keep it, costs range from $40-$55, depending on where you download it from and what version you download. (download site link is to 5Star Shareware) Net Studio Easy Web Graphics Premium - This is another amazing program that allows novices to create stunning web graphics. Uses wizards but once you get the hang of it, you can let your imagination loose. It didn't take me too long to figure out how to add text to a test button. Costs $99 download; $109 shipped. ImageForge - 20 day evaluation. This is a nice program packed with features. During the evaluation period there is limited technical support, but they offer some FAQs to help you deal with common problems and questions. Prices range from FREE for version 3.60 to about $29 for Pro version 3 series. Paint.NET - free paint program that's been compared to the best graphics software programs around. Requires Windows XP SP2, Vista or Windows Server 2003 SP1+ and the .NET framework. Windows and Mac Expression 3 (new link) - freeware for the Mac and Windows. Something really cool and free for Mac users, finally. This is a vector-based painting and illustration program for those with MacOS 9+ and 10.1+ and Windows . Found the link to this from my newsletter subscription to Graphics.com and downloaded the Windows version when it became available, but I haven't tried it out yet. From the screenshots and description at Microsoft's web site, it looks pretty good. Plus being free is a great thing. Note: Microsoft is developing a pay version for three different applications. This pay version is simply called Microsoft Expression, a web development tool. That is not what you want to download (unless you want to help them test out the Interactive Designer or Graphic Designer CTPs.) You want Creature House Expression 3 which is what the link goes to. Download requires lots of patience. Mac Only ImageWell - I can't review this Mac OS X image editor, but users at CNet give this four out of five stars. It looks like it can do the job of putting text on images, so I give it my nod. Costs about $20 US but you can try out the full-featured product for free. Older, free version is no longer available from either CNet's Download.com or the creator, XTraLean Software. Adobe ImageStyler 1.0 - For Mac System 7.5.5, this Adobe program appears to be able to put text on graphics as well as create graphics. This is a free beta version download from CNet. Windows, MacOS X and Unix theGIMP - this is another graphics software that I've not tried out, though I've read good things about it. Comes in UNIX, Windows, and MacOS X flavors and it's free, open source. Cool! Remember, no matter which software program you use, you can only add text to my graphics. No other alteration of the graphics are allowed. Other Graphics
Sites A few resources for buttons and dividers. 321Clipart.com Transloader Services for WebTV Users With new desktop PC computers at sub-$1000 prices now, WebTV seems like a dinosaur. But that's my opinion. Here are some transloader services you can use to store downloaded graphics. No direct-linking is allowed and nothing other than adding text can be done on the mostly .jpg images used for my graphics. Domania
Freeloaders More helpful info: JavaScript Generators for Mouseovers/Rollovers
Rollover
Effect Coder Lite - create one rollover button at a time.
You can combine the scripts for each button, if you
know how. A very well-hidden tool from Eyeland Studios. Please note that the scripts at the following web sites are not for novices. But they are not too, too difficult to use if you follow the directions given. These sites are some of my favorites! Dynamic
Drive Tools for Generating HTML for Frames and Tables TableMaker
- this doesn't work for nested tables Builder.com
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