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20 best free futuristic Techno Fonts

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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08.05.08 | Comment? |
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Guide to Pre-Installed Fonts

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.

07.15.08 | Comment? |
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A Textgenerator WITHOUT Lorem Ipsum

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 :-)

07.04.08 | 2 Comments |
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What a great Typo/Logo/Music Video: Justice DVNO

If you like Typography, Logos & Music you have to watch this.

So-Me, the art director behind the iconic design work of Ed Banger Records and Kanye West’s “Good Life” video, follows up his eye-popping clip for Justice’s “D.A.N.C.E.” with a logo-based sequel.

06.29.08 | Comment? |
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Font Burner

If you’re bored with your website typo that are limited only to default fonts, then you should checkout Font Burner. Font Burner is a free web tool that allows you to add new fonts to your website.


Font Burner currently has over 1000 fonts collection for you to choose from, and folks at Font Burner continue to update it with new fonts. Somehow this would make your website appeares different and unique than any others. You can include a personal taste through the appearance of fonts on your website. The fonts at Font Burner are easy to find since it is categorized by font types and style.

Just how this thing work? All you have to do is following these simple steps:
Step 1: Find a font
Step 2: Copy the embed code
Step 3: Paste the code into your website

Easy thing! Start to customize font on your website instantly with Font Burner now!

06.29.08 | Comment? |
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FontStruct: Free Font-Building Tool

FontStruct is a brilliant WEB 2.0 online service to build font. This free tool is brought to you by the world’s leading retailer of digital type, FontShop.

FontStruct provides you a web interface workspace arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks, so you can quickly and easily creates fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes. When you’re finished building, it is automatically brought you high-quality TrueType fonts, for Mac or Windows.

Something common in the WEB 2.0 is that every output of online tool can be shared. The great thing is that FontStruct allows you to share your design to other users or you can keep it to yourself.

If you want to showcase your font creation to your own website or blog, you can grab the FontStruct widget! You can visit the FontStruct site to start it right away!

06.27.08 | Comment? |
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10 Well Crafted Graffiti Fonts

BrainPicks today is about well crafted Graffiti Fonts. Why they have to be well crafted? Graffiti Style on Fonts is totally different because all of them constitute of individual handwriting style transformed into digital fonts. Their expressiveness is defining local culture and urban lifestyle, yet they are regulated for evenness in typographic settings.
If you think these fonts are useful to your design, please visit the site refers to each font reviewed below. And now have fun with our selection of graffiti fonts.
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06.23.08 | 3 Comments |
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Free Font - BB Petie Boy

Bittbox.com is known as a design blog with tons of freebies and resources. Surprisingly, Bittbox beats you again with their very first font design titled: BB Petie Boy. They are available in Light, Medium and Heavy characters, plus one of the font set which has deep grungy look.





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06.19.08 | Comment? |
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