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Two Nice Free Skull Fonts

Jennifer Farley — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:06:07 +0000

A little late for Halloween, but hey skull fonts are useful ALL year round! Here’s two free fonts from the Skull A Day blog. The blog is dedicated to showcasing interesting skull images created initially by the author, Noah Scalin and more recently from readers of the blog. Noah made a skull image every day for 366 days and his creations have been turned into a book. A definite case of hard work and dedication paying off. As well as the fonts you can see below, there are lots of other skull related design goodies on the site, well worth checking out.

Download the font here.

11 Cool Dingbats For Your Design Bag

Jennifer Farley — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:56:23 +0000

Below you’ll find a list of 10 dingbats with links to where you can download them. These are, of course personal choice of what’s cool – some of them I like because they’re a little bit retro, some because they’re cute (but not cutesy) and some because they just unusual. The great thing about using dingbats for design work is that you can easily create paths from them and use them in Photoshop or Illustrator as vectors or you could convert them to brushes or symbols. Each font has it’s own usage policy so make sure you check it out.

Invaders From Space

Noah’s Ark

B.O.M.B. (Best of Magurno Brushes)

15 Free Retro Fonts

Jennifer Farley — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:18:46 +0000

ret·ro [ réttrō ]
adjective

Definition:
Modeled on something from past: modeled on something from the past such as a style of fashion or music.

Smashing magazine recently had a nice review of websites designed in a retro style. Below you’ll find examples of 15 retro fonts I’ve got in my own font bag that you might be interested in for your web or graphic design projects, along with links to the websites you can dowload the fonts from.

Fontdiner is a terrific site with free and paid for fonts available.

Girls Who Wear Glasses have a large number of free fonts available, here’s a few of their retro styles that I liked.

Fontoville have some lovely paid for Retro fonts but also generously give away these:

Typographica host the Hitchcock font by Matt Terich as an homage to the iconic lettering by Saul Bass.

Rotodesign also offer some free retro fonts to download.