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A little font help

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M

Hi folks-

I've got a little design project coming up and I need some very 1960s flavored fonts. I'd appreciate any ideas for places to find some free fonts. Hanford?

Thanks all,
-martin

H

I like Font Diner's pay stuff a lot, but they have a couple of good free fonts, too:

http://www.fontdiner.com/

Chank's got some neat stuff, but I don't know if any of it's particularly retro:

http://www.chank.com/

Rotodesign has some neat ones, the description for Moto always makes me giggle. I'm easy that way:

http://www.rotodesign.com/fonts/index.html

I'm eager to see what other people come up with!

T

Hi Martin-

Try this:

http://www.fontsandgraphics.com/retro.html

and this has some free and some you gotta pay for:

http://www.fontdiner.com/main.html

T

"Fontazm" has lots of goofy theme fonts for free...
http://members.dca.net/pheanix/msie/opening.htm

The site is poorly laid out, so be sure to scroll down after you click on a letter at the bottom, and check out any 2nd or 3rd pages.

http://www.larabiefonts.com/ has a good variety and the site seems to work pretty well. I use a font called Deftone Stylus from them for the "Hanford Lemoore's" text on the main page. It's free. That site has a bunch of stuff free, but not all of it's great.

I'm not very good at matching decades to fonts, so i'm not sure what "1960s" fonts is, but I use Futura for most of my 1950s looking stuff. It's not free, but you may want to search for a free knock-off.

All of my headline fonts that look Tiki are hand-done in Photoshop, so there's not much help there.

Hope that helps,

Hanford

M

Thanks very much everyone. I'll be a busy boy this weekend.

-martin

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