When comes to finding the font name of the font that we came across on designs or images, usually What The Font by MyFonts would be the best tool to use. And now we have another new tool that can do similar thing, and that is the Font Matcherator from FontSpring.
The function is pretty much similar: you upload an image with the font you want to find out, then Font Matcherator will do their best to find the fonts from their font database that have the closest match to the font. Continue reading
With the introduction of @font-face in CSS3, we are no longer restricted to just operating system fonts. There are many high quality open source fonts that are hosted on sites like Google Fonts and Font Squirrel that you can use it on your designs and websites. But what if you want to have a try on popular webfonts like Proxima Nova, Brandon Grotesque, Museo, or Apercu and many more for free? Most probably you will have to pay, or subscribe to use those fonts.
But there is a way that you can download the aforementioned fonts for free, not only just the font but the entire font family. Continue read on to find out how you can do it.
Today I would like to introduce a small side project I’m working on right now, Free Japanese Font, a convenient site to find the good quality free Japanese fonts on the Internet. I had been running these site for six months and now it has more than hundreds of fonts!
The fonts were categorised in several font styles, for example: handwriting, calligraphy, rounded, display fonts and lots more. Feel free to visit the website and look for your favorite Japanese font!
In our daily life, we read newspapers and magazines, we walk on the streets, we purchase stuff and we surf the net. Almost all the things that we do involving type. Type is something we can’t live without and good typography can create everlasting good impression and increasing in brand identity.
In this post, I will show you 7 websites where you get your typography inspiration fix. From these sites, you can get not just about good looking type, but also examples of good font combination, nice web fonts and also colors used to further enhance the type and the message. Continue reading to check them out!
Today I stumbled upon these three beautiful fonts, created by Yosuke Masaki, a young font designer, illustrator and web designer from Osaka Japan. These fonts are high quality and with very strong art sense. You can actually download the fonts for free and can be used in both personal and commercial projects!
Please continue to read to find out these three fonts!
When creating designs that are casual and cheerful, rounded font becomes one of the preferable font styles for the eye-catchy title and/or the body text. There are popular premium rounded fonts out there like VAG Rounded, Gotham Rounded and even Helvetica Rounded which you might have seen them in various print and digital designs. They are well crafted, but it’s really expensive.
Fortunately, there are quite some quality rounded font alternatives available out there that you can download and use for free! Many of them can be used for commercially (please check their license agreement). Some of them are even @font-face ready which you can implement into your websites. Continue reading to check them out!
Ever fancy of using Japanese fonts that are cute and unique? Today, I’m going to introduce 5 new Japanese fonts that you can download for free and use it right away!
This font give a sense of the naive handwriting style by the small kids. It has the standard Hiragana, Katakana, Numerals and Kanji that students learn during early primary school years.
It’s been a while since I posted Japanese related font. But with the help of the social network, I stumbled upon this really cute Japanese font called “mini-wakuwaku”. The font style is rounded and cheerful, it’s perfect match for cute and wacky designs!
This cute font contains two styles: normal and a rounded one, but the difference are just slightly. It supports Japanese character like hiragana and katakana as well as romaji characters, numerals, punctuations and more! Below is the sample sentence I typed with the font. Looks cute right? Unfortunately this font doesn’t support kanji, but in my opinion that’s not a problem. Continue reading to find out the download link!
[Updated] We all knew that there are a lot of websites showcasing the great usage of fonts and type treatment on various mediums like web or on the print, but sometimes you just want to know what font they are using. Well you can use font identification service to check the similar fonts, but is there any resources that tells you the font name?
Well there are, I found 3+ websites that not only showcase good examples of typography but also the fonts behind the design. Continue read on to check them out.
As a designer, we deal with types everyday and it is very natural that to look for free fonts on the web that is suitable for the design and brings out the right feeling. And with the modern web design, web fonts are getting more popular too. There are many ways and websites to look for free fonts but in this post, I will show you some tips and sites to look for quality free fonts and web fonts.
With these websites, you can find many free fonts quickly that might just suitable for your next project. Without further elaborating, please read on to check the sites out!