Hi.
I'm hoping for a bit of help in finding some nice fat (rounded) fonts. As an example Fat Love here is of the type I am looking for, but when I follow the link I cannot locate it. Also I'm not mad about the slanty v's and a's.
(if poss. free as well!).
Many thanks.
Jim.
Thanks very much for the responses. (if we can just work on the price...!!)
Free fonts are generally (not always) worth what you pay for them.
Fellow over on the Adobe Photoshop forum found that the text engine in that program locked up totally after he installed a free font. It took hours for him to find out the problem, and then expunge said font (he had loaded hundreds at once).
I don't know what he considers his time to be worth, but to me that was a very expensive free font.
Haley is kind enough to offer Teaspoon for free. Click on her link.
For Teaspoon you can fill in some punctuation with Gill Sans Ultrabold (which is another nice fat font)
Great point, Don. It's easy to forget that fonts are software and you wouldn't install questionable software on your working computer. Besides being built of more reliable code, commercial fonts also come with free support and that can be vital when you run into issues on a deadline.
If you want fat outlines, I vote for Nick Shinn's Soft Machine.
Die Gestalten offers Naive-Fat as a free font:
I did in fact (after posting) realise that Teaspoon was free. Sorry, should have edited... thanks Haley.
@Don - Times are hard right now, but I take your point!
Anyway thanks for all the helpful responces.
I'd wager that somewhere there is a tale of a pay font hanging up someone's system too.
I have always worked mainly with free fonts, and never had a hang-up I could trace to a font. Well maybe before XP; anything could happen back then with Windows. The boogey-man was always just around the corner.
The real frustration with free fonts for me is suddenly realizing you need some characters that aren't there. Or odd behavior when put on vector curves. Or real bad spacing that requires some time spent adjusting. Or something is just 'off' when you are finished, and you can't seem to make it fly.
Sometimes I actually enjoy the challenge of making a quality-challenged font look its best, but then I realize it is a kind of false advertising, so I won't go too far with this.
Given the choice, and the ability to charge it to someone, I'd go with pay fonts most of the time. Just less surprises, on the whole.
I imagine, if a font is well made, you might never realize the quality. It is lack of quality that is easy to focus in on, as a rule. And I get to see plenty of that. But for free, I can't complain (too much, anyway).
And occasionally I have worked with a font that made me ooh and aah when using it. Now that is worth money.
> I’d wager that somewhere there is a tale of a pay font hanging up someone’s system too.
Certainly, but then there's a company behind the purchase that is required to fix the problem.
Certainly, but then there’s a company behind the purchase that is required to fix the problem.
I will say the one time I ran into a problem on a pay font (bad spacing), the designer was very responsive and gave me a couple more fonts (someday I am going to have to try and find what I did with them). It was a gratifying experience. I just wish I could choose over, since my tastes have changed away from gimmicky display fonts since then.
Here is a fat font someone in another group posted as an interesting solution to the @ symbol:
http://www.dafont.com/babycakes.font
And here is a rather plump one by the same name by Typophiler Nick:
The Berthold Block is one of my favorite fonts, especially the Heavy!
cheerio Queneau
Also, see the bottom of this list of extra bold fonts.
Mavis Counterpunch. ALL CAPS.
do line NonFormat: take your favorite font into Illustrator and stroke the hell out of it!
(that sounds kinky)
>^p
take your favorite font into Illustrator and stroke the hell out of it!
Can that look good?
Can that look good?
well, it takes a bit of finessing after-the-fact, but take a look and decide for yourself: http://www.non-format.com
Many thanks for all of your responses!
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