Josh Kuper
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What are some free font sites that you like
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Fred Weiss
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dafont.com
Johnny Best
Active Member
rjssigns
Active Member
I've noticed that a lot of stuff on the "free" sites is for personal use only.
Something else to remember is many of those fonts aren't fully developed and will cause software and RIP issues.
I have lots of experience with this in a school setting.
Students are warned repeatedly not to go to those sites yet still do.
Then they complain that the file won't print, won't load, has weird artifacts etc...
The HP Indigo in the lab will flag the file or it won't load in the RIP. There have been instances where "free" fonts will crash the RIP.
Takes a looooong time to reboot. On the order of 20 to 30 minutes.
Wide format is less of an issue but those "free" fonts have still caused rip and print issues.
Something else to remember is many of those fonts aren't fully developed and will cause software and RIP issues.
I have lots of experience with this in a school setting.
Students are warned repeatedly not to go to those sites yet still do.
Then they complain that the file won't print, won't load, has weird artifacts etc...
The HP Indigo in the lab will flag the file or it won't load in the RIP. There have been instances where "free" fonts will crash the RIP.
Takes a looooong time to reboot. On the order of 20 to 30 minutes.
Wide format is less of an issue but those "free" fonts have still caused rip and print issues.
Pauly
Printrade.com.au
Shouldn't have issues if your fonts are flattened, rasteised or created as outlines?
jochwat
Graphics Department
Usually that's the solution, but sometimes you can't get away with just rasterizing/outlining your fonts (e.g., a variable-data job where the text changes and paragraphs reformat on the fly).
rjssigns
Active Member
Nah, besides wasting time with all the extra steps trying to make it work, issues still pop up.
Kerning, and trying to set leading are other "fun and exciting" aspects of "free" fonts.
Not to mention a lot of this "free" stuff is somebody pirating a good font and tweaking it a little and naming it something else.
Glyphs, ligatures etc...are usually missing or F'ed up so bad they will never work.
I run three classes a year and students try to sneak one by the ol' guy. Catch them every time.
Then they get to show the whole class what happens when you try to use "free" fonts.
This has happened more times than I care to count.
But it's a teachable moment on the pitfalls of "free" fonts as opposed to buying fully developed fonts from sites like Letterheads or Sign DNA.