Post #137111 by Hale Tiki on Mon, Jan 24, 2005 1:39 PM

Undoubtedly, I am a graphic designer myself, and have put a lot of time into designing fonts. And House certainly deserves every penny they get. I am on their mailing list, and had to buy a font set from them a few years ago for a brochure I was doing. However, some poeple create fonts specifically to be free. None of the fonts on acidfonts.com, or any that I have are stolen, distributed, or copyrighted. Every font I have is a free font designed specifically to be distrubed. Fontdiner.com offers free fonts as well, and I think its a fantastic idea for a company to do so. Thanks to their free distribution service, their font (fontdinerdotcom sparkly and loungy) has been used on more products and TV commercials in the last 2 years than almost any other single font I can think of in the last 10 years. And I'm sure they have benefitted quite a lot from it being used. A few examples are the Swanky Girl line of beauty products, among the dozens and dozens of beauty products that use that font. I've seen packaging, book covers, everything, even the title and credits to the show on some network that was recently cancelled. The son's a nerd, the daughter is a redhead, the parents are nuts, I don't know. Anyway, point is, fonts that are meant to be paid for, should be paid for, but fonts that are designed to be free, well, who are we to argue with the creators.