{"id":4859,"date":"2011-06-03T20:11:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T18:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/?p=4859"},"modified":"2011-04-03T20:36:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T18:36:50","slug":"free-fonts-by-the-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/03\/free-fonts-by-the-thousands\/","title":{"rendered":"Free fonts by the thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t have too many fonts for your computer. Or can you?<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I am trying to make sure that you will get much more than you can swallow here: tens of thousands of character fonts. Not only a bunch of them, but two sources of the nicest kind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fontpark.net\/\">FontPark<\/a> is nothing less than a 70,000-font archive. You can search, dig, drag, drown into it.<\/p>\n<p>But this is really an organized archive, which makes it quite usable even from the pro designer. and did I mention that most fonts are freeware or free for personal use?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4860\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4860\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fontpark.net\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fontpark.net_.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"fontpark.net\" width=\"500\" height=\"776\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fontpark.net_.jpg 654w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fontpark.net_-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fontpark.net_-387x600.jpg 387w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fontpark.net_-97x150.jpg 97w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A few SciFi examples from FontPark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But there are other sources for your character fonts. I found an interesting one because they are free and very accessible while containing real good quality font-ware. Google has built its own web font store: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/webfonts\">Google WebFonts<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4861\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4861\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/google_webfonts_fonts-503x600.png\" alt=\"Google webfonts web fonts\" title=\"google_webfonts_fonts\" width=\"300\" height=\"357\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4861\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Examples of Google web fonts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What is really special about Google WebFonts is that it comes with <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/apis\/webfonts\/docs\/getting_started.html#Quick_Start\">an API<\/a> that most web sites can use to collect the fonts and use them when designing a web site. Actually, it&#8217;s as easy as using standard CSS style commands. As in the following example:<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"css\">body {\r\n        font-family: 'Tangerine', serif;\r\n        font-size: 48px;\r\n}<\/pre>\n<p>Definitely good news for the web designers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t have too many fonts for your computer. Or can you? Actually, I am trying to make sure that you will get much more than you can swallow here: tens of thousands of character fonts. Not only a bunch of them, but two sources of the nicest kind. 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