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What is the Average Font?

What happens when you fuse all the fonts installed on your computer to produce a new typeface? Well, this is what Moritz Resl did and the result is this: The Average Font.

 This project shows what a font would look like if it consisted of all typefaces installed on my system. Every character from a to z is drawn using every single font with a low opacity. In total there are over 900 typefaces in my library. I didn’t exclude the ugly ones.

 

 

I wonder what the average font of the entire internet would look like.

Check out each font on Moritz’s Flickr account.

Tags: Average Font, font, Typeface

Toyota’s iQ Font: Designed by a Moving Car

Happiness Brussels, a Belgian ad agency, came up with a unique promotion idea, to design a font using a moving Toyota iQ. A couple of typographers, a pro race driver and an interactive software developer collaborated together in order to produce this one of a kind typeface.

A custom program was created to track the motion of the car’s skid. The drivers of the car were told what sort of skids the need to perform in order to create the strokes which are going to be used to build the entire font.

The making of iQ font video

You can download the iQ agility font. It’s free.

Tags: font, free font, iQ Font, Toyota, Toyota iQ, Toyota Typeface

FontEx: Font Hunting Made Easy

Finding fonts that you need for your current project is getting harder and harder to accomplish nowadays. With the enormous number of available free fonts out there for you to choose from, finding the right font that you can use eats up more time that should be used in the actual development of the project. Don’t’ get me wrong here, searching for the right font is an essential part of the design process but there are sites that you can use to make your life a bit easier.

Fontex is a website that features fonts that are free to download. The fonts featured here are handpicked so that it will save you time looking for beautifully crafted fonts. Fonts are also neatly categorized to make your search even faster.

The next time you are on the hunt for fonts, you might want to check out FontEx first. They have a great collection of well crafted fonts for you to choose from. If you don’t find what you’re looking for, then you can use other font serving sites with a bigger collection.

*There’s also a site that converts your handwriting into fonts.

Tags: font, Font Download, FontEx, free fonts, Handpicked Fonts

Photoshop: Non-Destructive Circular Text Path

Another short but excellent video tutorial on creating a nice circular path for you to type on your text without destroying the font.

Tags: circular path, circular text, font, Photoshop, text

Photoshop: Create Non-Destructive Text and Image Reflections

This is a simple, short and a direct to the point tutorial on how to create non destructive text and image reflections using Photoshop.

Tags: font, Photoshop, Reflections, text

Top 100 Free Font Download

Dafont dot com features a collection of some of the most unique and amazing fonts that i have ever seen. Above are some of the most downloaded fonts featured on the site. If you are looking for a font that will suit your designing needs, you can check out their collection on the link below.

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Tags: font, free fonts