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Droid Robot Font: The Only Font You’ll Want This Week

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Droid Robot
Droid Robot

I am not knowledgable when it comes to fonts. You’re talking to the girl who used to use Comic Sans as the default font in her company e-mails! (Typophiles, don’t get a heart attack, okay?) I do know, however, how to recognize a fun font that will make your days at work more enjoyable. It doesn’t mean you have to use the font for official correspondence, but I am pretty sure you can find a lot of other uses for it.

So what font am I talking about? The Droid Robot Font. The font that will get Android lovers all worked up, I assume. I don’t even have an Android device, but I still think that this font is cool! Take a look up there again. [Read more…] about Droid Robot Font: The Only Font You’ll Want This Week

A is for Arial, B is for Baskerville

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Font Alphabet
Learning the alphabet is always fun, teaching it even more so. I realize that that statement is questionable, depending on your point of view, but how can you not have fun with the alphabet if you have tools such as that book (A is for Ackbar) I wrote about recently? If Star Wars isn’t your thing, then video might do it for you.

Alessandro Novelli is obviously a font lover, and he came up with his own version of the English alphabet. Each letter stands for a font, starting with A is for Arial. It is followed by B is for Baskerville, then C if for Cochin, and then D is for Didot…

Care to complete that list before checking out the video below?

The Alphabet from n9ve on Vimeo.

I have to be honest and admit that many of the fonts in the video are unfamiliar. Then again, I have never been a “font person”. Still, the concept and its execution is worth spending a minute or so on.

If you were given the chance to create your own font alphabet, which fonts would you choose?

FontPark: Get Your Fill of Fonts

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Tired of using the same old font forever? There are some people who tend to stick with the same old font for years.  However, it is always a good thing to shake things up a bit every now and then.  This is especially true if the font you have been using forever does not match the new theme that you are planning to implement in your blog.  More so, if your favorite font is not really user friendly, you really have no choice but to use something else that will help your reader.

Now that’s only one group. There are people who just can’t get enough of fonts!  Designers, of course, need to have a wide array of fonts at their disposal.  And, even if you’re not a designer, you can never really have enough fonts to play with anyway.


If you belong to the second group, here’s something that just might make you feel like a little kid in a candy store: FontPark.  This web site has more than 70,000 fonts that you can use.  Yes, that’s 70,000 fonts that anyone can download and use. The best part? All 70,000++ fonts are free to download and use.  Whether you are going to use the fonts for personal or commercial purposes, you don’t have to pay!

There are actually a lot of other sites from which you can download fonts.  Of course, some of the best sites will charge you to download their fonts.  In most of these web sites, you will be able to find fonts for free as well, but for the most part, you will have to pay for the nicer fonts.  I suppose that’s the biggest advantage of FontPark.

It is easy enough to navigate, like many other font sites.  You can browse the collection alphabetically or by category.  Alternatively, you can do a search of your own.  Oh, and the fonts are not all letters – you can find all sorts of interesting characters as well.  You can preview each font so that you can see exactly what it looks like.  More so, the fonts can be used for PC, Max, and Linux.

I know now where I am going to go if I need to change my routine a bit!