Fancy Free Fonts I Love & How to Install Them

Font cleaning today.

I use “The Font Thing” (free online download I’ve used forever) to help give me a visual when programs don’t really let me see very well what I have for use.  Using that program, I sort fonts by category to find quickly fonts needed–I run about 700 on my system.

Wow.  That’s a bunch.  And that’s after I deleted many today.  Imagine scrolling down through that many.  Even with a small sample, with complex fonts, often you can’t tell what you’ve got.

With The Font Thing, I can view than at large sizes.  With many decorative fonts, a screen size of about 72 is just about right.

I LOVE LETTERS!

It’s great to fonts I didn’t know I had.  I made this on a transparency with some I made for Goldilock’s book.

Feel free to right click|save to disk|print if you find the above something you can use.

Thought I’d share a list of a few fancy modern fonts I love with you.  If you see one you like and want, search for them by name (copy and paste the font name in your web search engine), download them free.  I don’t think I can list the links here, but I’m not sure.

BY NAME:

Amazone BT (TT1040M_.TTF)

BahiaScriptSSK  (TTF)

Beautiful Caps ES  Swash Capitals

Belphebe

Blackadder ITC

Champignon

Civilian

Exmouth

French Script

Garamond Italic

Gayane StO Regular (first letter text)

HenryMorganHand

Hurricane (SupaDupaSerif)

Leafy glade (first letter text)

Leafyshade (first letter text)

Monotype Corsiva

Mutlu Ornamental

One Fell Swoop

Orphiel Demo

I made you a page so you can see what they look like:

If you don’t know how to install them, download them on their site to a file you name something like “My Downloaded Fonts”.

Next, unzip all your fonts ( I use a free program you can download like “UnZipThemAll” to unzip a bunch of files at one time, pronto.)

Finally, either copy, or drag all your unzipped .ttf files to  “C:/|Windows|Fonts folders”

(My virus scanner automatically scans any downloaded files for me.  I use avast! for virus protection,  also currently free on the internet).

You should never delete fonts out of that folder if you don’t know what they are or where they came from…they could be system fonts.  Some programs can’t run without them.

I think these are definately worth it!  I’ll try to post my favorite “grunge” fonts later sometime.