If you haven’t noticed, I do a lot of printables around here. I have a background in Graphic Design so I’ve always been drawn towards fonts. Seriously, I’ll be driving down the highway, see a billboard, and think to myself… Oh, I like how they used Perpetua Bold. Yeah, it’s kinda bad.
So today I’m sharing with you some of my absolute favorite fonts. Not the plain old serif and sans serif stuff, but the funky and fabulous… and FREE!
YEP, THERE’S 25 FREE FONTS HERE!
And you might notice that I used some of them for my Chalkboard Printable tutorial.
Well you can download all 25 fonts for FREE from dafont.com.
It’s a great website with tons of quirky, funky and FREE fonts.
So, do you have any favorite fonts?
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Erin, I am a fairly new follower and I just love your blog. Thank you for the AWESOME fonts. I love fonts too. When I was working at my old school I was able to use fonts alot – I was the yearbook advisor and taught kindergarten. I don’t get to use them much now but I still love them! I can’t wait to download all the fonts I don’t have!!
Blessings,
Kathleen
Erin,
I love your choices in fonts. I have never downloaded fonts before and I am not sure how to use them or if I use them in word or in another program? Do you know if there is a tutorial out that shows a novice of printable how to make them without too much fan fair?
Love these Erin! Totally pinned!
You are a rock star!
karianne
Aww, thanks Karianne! Hope you’re doing well ;)
I love Scriptina! Like you, I used to be big into graphics and animation so I was a ‘fontaholic’. And dafont is one of my favourite font sites!
Love Scriptina too! Just so whimsical :)
Here through a tumblr reblog, what a lovely assortment of typefaces! Erin, you’ll probably also like Cricket and The Time of the Revolving Door and Friends.
As a note for anyone downloading these (or other freeware faces on dafont), please consider donating to the artists who drew & coded them, and resist knock-offs of faces you know aren’t free.
It takes a lot of work to make a really nice typeface, not just drawing all characters but metrics like making sure each kerning pair (pair of letters) fits nicely to each other. It’s invisible work when done right, since all you have to do is type, but re all y obv i ous when it’s not!
Might spend a little too much time going through your archives!
Pinned this too! Dafont.com rocks! :)
~Dori
http://belljarvintage.blogspot.com/
http://pinterest.com/belljarvintage/
Haha, thanks Dori!
how do i use these for microsoft word?
You’ll have to download and install on your computer first. Then they should load into Word automatically.
Erin…I don’t have time for Facebook (I actually don’t trust myself to not WASTE time :)…but THANK YOU for your emails and all of your great ideas! Love them!! Julie
Haha, I know what you mean about Facebook! And thanks so much for the kind words. It’s comments like that which keep me going!
Hi Erin! I just started a free fonts link-up on my blog I Heart Free Fonts and would love for you to link this tomorrow (or any other font posts you have!) http://iheartfreefonts.com/2013/05/06/free-fonts-linkup/