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best/easiest way to buy fonts
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Shovelhead
New Member
Buy the entire A&S collection, then SignDNA and then finally LHF.
weaselboogie
New Member
House Industries fonts are pretty sweet too, but I think they're the most expensive too. You must get a gold-guilded box to put them in.
Pat Whatley
New Member
Not gold guilded but pretty sweet packaging
(ummm...that's got to be worth $40-$50 maybe)
Jillbeans
New Member
My dream is to someday get a House Industries or a P22 collection.
For now, I buy individually when I can afford to.
Art & Signfonts has some beauties, as does Sign DNA and Letterhead fonts.
What you can do is build the cost of the font into the individual job, that way you have it to use over again.
But not too much!
Love....Jill
For now, I buy individually when I can afford to.
Art & Signfonts has some beauties, as does Sign DNA and Letterhead fonts.
What you can do is build the cost of the font into the individual job, that way you have it to use over again.
But not too much!
Love....Jill
We have been in the graphics industry (offset and screen printing) for nearly 20 years, we have only been making signs for a few years, but we have a collection of something like 20,000 fonts, none of them from any of these sources mentioned.
Is there any legitimate reason that we should purchase special fonts for sign makers? I mean like are they better or better for signs or special somehow? I honestly have never looked at any of the collections mentioned. Should I?
Sorry to be so ignorant about the sign industry, but I am learning.
Is there any legitimate reason that we should purchase special fonts for sign makers? I mean like are they better or better for signs or special somehow? I honestly have never looked at any of the collections mentioned. Should I?
Sorry to be so ignorant about the sign industry, but I am learning.
FatCat
New Member
imagep, I am in the same boat as you. (15+ years prepress and offset printing background and recently started my own sign business on the side.) If you can get by with what you have, then so be it.
HOWEVER, I feel there is indeed quite a bit of difference between fonts used for signs and fonts used for printing. From my experience, "sign fonts" seem to be designed to have unique shapes and accents that add a little "somthing" to a sign where most regular fonts like Garamond, Helvetica etc. do not. I also think many have been designed to increase readability from a distance which many regular typefaces have not.
Just my .02¢
*I wanted to add that I bought the whole shebang from signfonts and in the projects where I use them always seem to "pop" more than standard typefaces.
http://artandsignstudio.com/fonts.html
HOWEVER, I feel there is indeed quite a bit of difference between fonts used for signs and fonts used for printing. From my experience, "sign fonts" seem to be designed to have unique shapes and accents that add a little "somthing" to a sign where most regular fonts like Garamond, Helvetica etc. do not. I also think many have been designed to increase readability from a distance which many regular typefaces have not.
Just my .02¢
*I wanted to add that I bought the whole shebang from signfonts and in the projects where I use them always seem to "pop" more than standard typefaces.
http://artandsignstudio.com/fonts.html
kustomsigns&designs
New Member
rdm01
New Member
By far some of my favorite fonts/collections.
BRUSHMARKS
New Member
we use sign DNA alot was worth buying
The Vector Doctor
Chief Bezier Manipulator
Also keep in mind that the free or cheap fonts look ok small but when you blow them up to a large size you will see where they are poorly digitized. Some have extra unnecessary points that show up as odd "bumps" when you add outlines to them.
The Vector Doctor
Chief Bezier Manipulator
Yeah, that same medicine that suddenly makes lovely art like this usable. If curious, no I could not trace this one
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Jillbeans
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Wow, Vector Doctor, what a pain to trace/attempt to trace.
As for the question about sign-type fonts being superior, I say yes.
The DNA, Signfonts, and LHF are made by sign people.
They have more snap crackle and pop than Rice Krispies.
The kerning in some of them is virtually perfect, too.
Which comes in handy for those who just type and cut or print.
And some of them come with clever alternate characters to even further customise your designs.
Love....Jill
As for the question about sign-type fonts being superior, I say yes.
The DNA, Signfonts, and LHF are made by sign people.
They have more snap crackle and pop than Rice Krispies.
The kerning in some of them is virtually perfect, too.
Which comes in handy for those who just type and cut or print.
And some of them come with clever alternate characters to even further customise your designs.
Love....Jill
visualeyez
New Member
www.dafont.com has a lot of good free ones and they are organized very nicely. Some are free only for personal use, or try and buy deals.
Replicator
New Member
I usually use money, it's the easiest way I've found . . . but that's just me !
rdm01
New Member
Once you start paying for custom created fonts made by font artists, most of
these freebies reveal how ugly they are. Yes, $20-$50+ may seem like an
extravagant amount to spend on a set of letters, but when you realize that it
has not been beat to death, flows well, and kerns nice you realize that you
made a swell investment.
Yeah, that's right, I said swell. :Big Laugh