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colly posted on 08/29/2002

hi, im looking for any kind of hawaiian or tiki looking fonts for my webpage design. i would love it if they were free. thanks!

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Turbogod posted on 08/29/2002

Middle row, middle page has links to fonts and clipart fonts. Pretty nice for free.

http://www.konakai.com/

enjoy

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thecardcheat posted on 08/29/2002

House Industries.com
Not free, but really nice stuff.

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vintagegirl posted on 08/30/2002

Are you on Mac or PC?

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colly posted on 08/30/2002

thanks guys, im on a pc

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Swanky posted on 08/30/2002
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Talkie-Tiki posted on 01/05/2003

thats pretty cool but too rich for my blood

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Traitor Vic posted on 01/05/2003

I've been able to build a pretty impressive little set of Tiki fonts from such websites as 1001 Free Fonts and FontFace. One very good site for that sort of thing is http://www.anzwers.org/free/tackorama/. Google shoud find a source for just about any of them, though, just by searching on Font and the name of the font in question.
Here's my list...
Bamboo (there are actually several by that name), Castaway, CK Bamboo, Hawaiiah, Hawaiian Punk, Kakukaku, Pythia, Super Tiki,
Surf Safari, Tiki, Tiki Tooka BV, Tropicana Plain (there is also a great Dingbat font called Tropicana BV from Blue Vinyl Fonts) and Zambesi MN. I believe all of these are available as Free Downloads. Some are Shareware but most are just plain Gratis.

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DawnTiki posted on 01/05/2003

This stuff is great thanks for sharing Traitor Vic! :drink:

[ Edited by: DawnTiki on 2003-01-05 08:12 ]

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Tiki-Atari posted on 08/07/2007

Some great fonts to compliment tiki display fonts.
These are some of the OTHER fonts from the 50's. The plain-jane cousins that you still need to have around to make your menus/matchbooks/whathaveyou have that retro flair.
Just a quick and dirty primer to 50's fonts (and some that just look that way) compiled from a variety of sources.
Franklin Gothic
Frutiger
Park Avenue
Futura
Bodoni
New Times Roman
Franklin Gothic
Andale Mono
MVB Magnesium

Arial Narrow and Arial Black can look pretty appropriate too.
Trebuchet MS maybe?

Help me out guys and dolls; what did I miss in my overview of fabulous 50's typography?

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moondog426 posted on 08/07/2007

50's Fonts?....well I know you hit some of the big daddies of the handset type era but they may go back further than the 50's actually....a few more that come to mind are Coronet, Eurostile, Craw Clarendon, Century Schoolbook, Dom Casual, Optima, Palatino, Cooper Black and Windsor....Thanks for info on the fonts.

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Tiki-Atari posted on 08/07/2007

Definately some of them go further back. Typography is always a bit strange in that you have A) faces that are new and B) faces that are in vogue. Sometimes they are the same, sometimes weirdness happens. For example, 50's mod pulls in a lot of 30's deco, some of which pulls in turn of the century art nouveau floral patterns for contrast.
That's part of what makes tracking things down so crazy.
Thanks for hitting some more of the biggies!

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Digitiki posted on 08/07/2007

I've also created the Gilligan's Island font a long time ago, but it seems to be very popular. I see it on menues flyers, etc. all the time.
http://www.smackbomb.com/famousfonts/fonts/gilligansisland.html

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Tiki-Atari posted on 08/08/2007

Nice! Any plans to extend the symbol set? Ligatures and so forth?

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VampiressRN posted on 08/08/2007

Wow.....GREAT THREAD. Thanks for sharing all the info, I may pick up a few for use on posters. Of course I am the technically challenged nurse, so may have to beg for help if I get fontitis. :lol:

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Digitiki posted on 08/08/2007

Tiki-Atari,
I don't know if your comment was meant for me. But the Gilligan font has extra charaters, accents, symbols and even the cartoon versions of all the catsaways in the font. I originally made this only for the Mac, so I'm not sure how to acced the character in Windows other than Word.

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davidodesign posted on 05/10/2009

I offer a free tiki font called Tangaroa Glyphs that might help with any website design. I also offer a Hawaiian font called the Tangaroa font which is a woodcut style Polynesian font. Maybe these fonts would work for your website project.

Dave

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MadDogMike posted on 05/10/2009

Welcome to TC David. Beautiful font, I downloaded it while it's FREE and before you change your mind :)

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tiki moon posted on 06/25/2009

I found a font made of nothing but hibiscus dingbats

It's free, and they seem good for many uses.

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Hilander posted on 07/03/2009
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Hiphipahula posted on 07/03/2009

squid also makes fonts try here: http://squidart.com/

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