NexusFont is a free font manager for Windows. If you have many fonts and you need to choose fonts you want, this program is for you. You can compare many fonts at once. And there are useful functions to manage font files.

Features of this free Font Manager are:

• View TrueType Fonts: view installed fonts, fonts in folders (not installed).
• Install/Uninstall fonts: install fonts into system or uninstall fonts from system.
• Find Duplicate Fonts: find duplicate fonts in folders and delete unnecessary font files.
• Print: print fonts list with user defined sample text
• Export as Image: export font list as an image with user defined sample text
• AntiAliasing: supports antialiasing for designers
• Rename: Rename font files with their font name
• Copy/Move/Delete: manages font files
• Favorite Fonts: manages fonts by favorite groups

URL: http://xiles.net/programs/

This free font is little industrial, little vintage, little condensed, little bold.
Public Gothic is a font family from antrepo4.com and it is a free font to use in all your designs, commercial or non commercial. The Public Gothic family members are PB Square, PB Vintage, PB Circular, PB Federal.

It’s compatible with any os system. (Mac T1, Win OTF, Win TTF).

URL: http://www.a2591.com/2009/10/type-for-you.html

Akashi is a stylised sans serif typeface featuring 158 of the most commonly used glyphs.

URL: http://www.tenbytwenty.com/products/typefaces/akashi

MOD is applicable for any type of graphic design – web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items like logos, pictograms.

Format: Opentype (.otf) Compatible: PC & Mac Details: Cyrillic version, 215 Character Set, Manual Kerning, Tracking / Pairs Price: Free

URL: http://fontfabric.com/?p=396

If you need a font that is good for display text on signage or T-Shirt design, Hexy Clover could be the one. The font is creatively designed by WONG Kai Zen. Each glyph has modular structures and by the name given for this font, you can also view the abstraction of clovers in hexagonal orders. Somehow when we tested this font, we suggest you to adjust the anti-aliasing setting of your graphic editor software into “smooth”, therefore you will have consistent type either at small sizes or low resolution.

Download HexyClover for free in True Type (.ttf) format and if you decide to use this font, there are some rules to follow so make sure you read the design license carefuly.

URL: http://www.fridayfonts.com/?p=361

fontex.org is a font directory that presents you hand-picked best free fonts for download. The font compilation is beautifully arranged and once you land to the first page of this website, it will be easy to find any font that you want. This is because the fonts are categorized in specified styles.

The Font Styles list in fontex.org categories are:

* Blackletter fonts
* Calligraphic fonts
* Comic fonts
* Dingbat fonts
* Display fonts
* Grunge fonts
* Handwritten fonts
* Monospaced fonts
* Pixel fonts
* Sans Serif fonts
* Script fonts
* Serif fonts
* Slab Serif fonts
* Stencil fonts
* Typewriter fonts

There are some other options to browse the fonts on fontex.org.You can browse the name of fonts by alphabet, or just surfing down the random fonts to get start. Submit a font name in search box, or even browse by the Newest, Most Popular, or Best Rated collections.

What’s make this site so special is that every font is hand-selected. So what you get from fontex.org is always the best quality of fonts, regardless that they’re actually free to download. Another thing is, if you’re a newbie to font designs and you want to learn more about each style of font, this site provides short infos about it.

URL: http://www.fontex.org/

Anonymous Pro is a family of four fixed-width fonts designed especially with coding in mind. Characters that could be mistaken for one another (O, 0, I, l, 1, etc.) have distinct shapes to make them easier to tell apart in the context of source code.
Anonymous Pro also features an international, Unicode-based character set, with support for most Western and European Latin-based languages, Greek, and Cyrillic. It also includes special “box drawing” characters if you need them.
While Anonymous Pro looks great on Macs and Windows PCs with antialiasing enabled, it also includes embedded bitmaps for specific pixel sizes (“ppems” in font nerd speak) for both the regular and bold weight.

It is available in one universal TrueType format that will work on both Macs and Windows PCs.
Anonymous Pro is distributed as copyrighted freeware fonts. You are free to use and distribute them in any way as long you keep them together and include the “Read Me” document that is included with the fonts.

URL: http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.html

Cube font is a collection of typeface with unique shapes. Each character is a group of plain squares that are also using different tone of color and specific angle of arrangement to emphasize the cubical look. Cube Font ver 2.1 is designed by Svetoslav Simov in 2008 and redesigned by Victor Saygin in 2009.

You can find out more about Cube™ font by visiting the source page. Also there are free samples of these interesting fonts in .EPS format. Have a creative experiment with this set ;)

Typogridphy is a CSS framework constructed to quickly code typographically in 960 Grid System layouts. It is designed in a full validate, semantic and strict xHTML, and validate CSS. The Typogridphy layout is zoomable, as the fonts formatting is mainly customized in ems. Easy and handy typographical method to implement within the layout, where you can ‘creating vertical rhythm’. With this method, all adjacent lines of text line up horizontally, regardless of line breaks and new paragraphs.

Read the complete guide to use this powerful Typogridphy CSS Framework and download it for free at the source page.

Sliced AB is a set of typeface designed by ~atobgraphics to download for free. It includes many elements you need (font, upper and lower case, numerals and puncuation).
This free typeface is only available for personal purpose. Sliced AB typeface should be nice for you to use in techno design, as the stroke is graphically simplified. Get this free font now!

http://www.yourfonts.com is a great and easy way to create your own personal fonts for free. To create your own personal font you just have to follow these steps:

1. Print the template
2. Complete the template
3. Scan and save the template
4. Upload the template
5. Preview your font
6. Download your own personal font.

So what are you waiting for? Visit yourfonts.com now and create your font for free!

Diavlo is one of the finest clean font that ever designed. The modern look of Diavlo contains: Light, Book, SemiBold Medium, Bold and Black weights type.
It is now the language is fully supported (Latin / Central European / Croatian / Romanian / Icelandic / Turkish / Esperanto).
You can just grab this free font for free from the source site and download the PDF file to read the Diavlo font in details.

OutlawDesignBlog.com just announced the release of their second free grunge font set. It is designed an amazing font designer: Carlos Fabian Camargo Guerrero, from Bogota Columbia.

The character is structurally distorted, bold weight, and detailed with rough texture. But what makes unique is because Carlos added erratic horizontal lines (more like sketches) to several fonts…and it creates a perfect eroded background, when you type a line of word using this grungy fonts.

Here comes another free fonts from Bittbox.com. These fonts are categorized in graphics fonts, as every character is having a hand written look… but the interesting part is that, the fonts appeared in block shape of sketchy fonts.

It is released in demo version, so it means its not the full version. You may use this font for personal and commercial projects. Download the Blox fonts demo version at Bittbox.com if you’re appeared to be huge fan of this cool font! :D

Typechart is a web tool to preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS.
This is how to use this tool:

1. Browse typographic styles; In quick look up, there is Style ID for each Typeface, which allows you to annotate prototypes and retrieve the css while coding.
2. Download CSS; When you click the “Get CSS” button, there is a sliding tray that displays the CSS.
3. Compare Typeface previews in two different OS; Windows view for (ClearType) rendering, and Mac view for Apple font rendering.

A tool that will save your time whenever you need to have quick overview on several web typos. Keep this Typechart inside your bookmark lists and have a try if you like ;)

Sometimes you need to draw characters when you write email, create a blog post, or even designing. While time is also moving on, it may be took time searching them down into your system. Hold still, because there is a web tool to help you solve this problem.

CopyPasteCharacter.com provides you list of symbol, number, and special type characters that works easy. You just need to click a character to copy it. Hold down «alt» to copy several characters.

CopyPasteCharacter.com is developed by Konst & Teknik and Martin Ström. We think this web tool is a great helper, so have a moment to save it to your favorite boomark list!

If you’re looking for a new typeface for any display and text use, Museo Sans is a good choice.
The type characters are geometric with slight contrast. Looks modern, stable and elegantly designed as highly legible sans serif typeface.

Museo Sans is based on the well-known Museo. The free version available for download are:

* Museo Sans 500
* Museo Sans 500 Italic

Should be great for your designs project, isn’t it? Grab the free version of Museo Sans at MyFonts.com now if you’re interested!

[[diggthis]] Techno fonts is our today’s topic. Going back to the future may bring you new idea in designing. Techno design theme reflecting all symbols and the overflow of energy in the digital age. Electronic media is somehow the core’s concept of techno typefaces. Bitmaps, pixel and extreme width often used, to bring sense of digital motion.
You will see many kinds of typical clustered dots, geometric shapes, modular logic and inlines as techno font’s decorative elements.

Here are 20 of the best futuristic Free Techno Fonts reviewed. Which one is your favorite? :)

Astronaut by Fontalicious
http://www.dafont.com/astronaut.font

LCD techno font that has uniform upper and lowercase height. Neat Clustered box in geometric structure.

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Here you find a complete guide to pre-installed fonts in Linux, Mac, and Windows. So if you ask yourself “Can i use this font…is it installed on all computers….?” have a look at this guide an find out.

If you need some text and you are tired of using the good old “lorem ipsum” over and over, just go and check out this site. Just enter the number of paragraphs you need, hit “generate” and you are done. No more Lorem Ipsum :-)