Struggling with my December Daily, internet issues, then printer ink problems and now the printer doesn’t like my photo paper.
SO I am at least 11 days behind, I managed to do pages 1 and 4 before I was sabotaged.
I saw this post over on Design Editor and thought I would share, some of these fonts would be really useful in making cards (if you haven’t already) or tags, or to make design elements for your Christmas Journals.
You can find them all HERE
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Sneak Peeks start later today !!
I know I don’t need to wax lyrical here about my unadulterated love for fonts.
I just wanted to say a public THANK YOU to all those type designers who make their creations available for free.
Lobster by Pablo Impallari is one of my favourites and now he has designed a new one called Lobster II, its a friendly, retro script and you can get all four styles for free here.
Fonts are a very personal thing, whilst I chose them for a particular purpose, within that I still tend to gravitate towards the same fonts, so I always pick one of three san serif condensed fonts and I ALWAYS pick the same sans serif block font.
So why do I have a HUGE collection of different fonts ?
I suppose its a little like clothes we may have a wardrobe full of different outfits but we all tend to wear the same half dozen sets of clothes.
So here is my Font Wardrobe, the fonts are all freebies and most are available from Da Font
and I feel perfectly justified in saying that as my Husbands Father was born and bred in Galway even though my Husband is a Plastic Paddy
OK I have a free font I want to share, I love the chunky block-ness of this font, the number shapes and the very useful subscripts.
DOCK no11 can be downloaded here
So its font freak day and I mean that it the nicest possible way !
First a lovely elegant light serif font available from The League of Moveable Type
I like to use scroll and cursive letters as accents to words especially when they are highly decorative.
I recently added this font to my arsenal specifically for the decorative caps. Ink in the Meat from Da Font
Here’s hoping for some typographical inspiration !
OK, those of you that know me , know that I don’t DO digital scrapbooking.
However I do love to use the printable option especially with paper. One of my favourites is this site Shabby Princess
Some seriously lovely stuff there, liking the papers from this set at the moment.
I am also liking this font too which is available to download from Da Font bold but a little quirky
Seriously, I know I don’t get up at stupid O’Clock every morning, but when did I miss the fact that sunrise isn’t until 07.40 today, I have actually been up since 5.30, but that’s another story, So I did expect to see the sunrise this morning but I didn’t expect it to be having a lazy morning !!
Have I got anything to share with you this morning, not much actually I have been working on a bunch of Christmas stuff, some for the December Daily project and some personal stuff I am hoping to get done as gifts for friends. I have also been working on some Christmas card designs, typographical ones, obviously.
I will start posting all my Christmas designs next week once Halloween is safely put to bed for another year !
So I will leave you with another Halloween font, DB Fright Night, although it isn’t free it is only $3 (about £1.90) this is from Lettering Delights, I like this as it isn’t a cute font but it doesn’t go along the grunge or horror route either, it is quite elegant and tasteful and with all the flourishes and swirls I think it will really appeal to scrapbookers and card makers.
Filed under Fonts
Well it has to be done really . . .
I know we don’t “Do” Halloween and it is very “American” to decorate and celebrate this event, before I get any nasty comments that isn’t a slur on anyone who does celebrate or who happens to be from across the pond.
I am lucky that my kids are still into getting dressed up and knocking on the neighbours doors for hand outs of sweets and chocolate. We live in a fairly enclosed housing development so doing the whole trick or treating thing is relatively simple. The kids do however follow a couple of simple rules, above all absolutely no “tricking” we avoid this part of the ritual by only approaching houses of people we know or houses that are displaying obvious signs of welcome for the trick or treat brigade.
finally manners, no jostling, no snatching and always say please and thank you.
Anyway I figured I would link you up to Lettering Delights who have some fab offers on at the moment $1 on alphabets, fonts, graphic sets, clip art and paper packs.
I particularly liked their DB Jack-o-patterns 2
They also have some really great ideas on how to use the fonts and dingbats.
Filed under Fonts, Freebie, Inspiration
Its a long term love affair, whether its a well designed or quirkily appealing font, a word art poster or words and letters used unusually or cleverly in a mag ad or on a store front, it doesn’t really matter.
I have been spending time looking for and downloading some new fonts recently, I want to design some more freebies for my small band of followers, so whilst emerged in all things typographic I came across this image.
It was created by a guy named Phil Sheffield, for an exhibition titled Said Why Eggs? at the East End Arts Club in London. It showcased 26 alphabets by 26 different artists.
When I saw this I though hey what a great way to use up some of my embarrassingly huge collection of chipboard letters, paint them in colours that compliment your room decor break out the foam dots and then arrange them artistically in an shadow box frame, Ribba from IKEA for example, VOILA personalised typographic art !!
Haven’t recommended one for a while.
I’m liking Reclame at the moment, I used it for my seaside circles. It is available to download here, you get the demo version for free but the other weights will all cost you.
You can download this from Font Spring
