free font of the month

/

 

Free font this month is Curly Q. It's a curly, swirly, girly kind of font. A delightful headline font for your next garden party or note to the kids from the tooth fairy. Use the download link on the right.

We were in London once for 2 weekends. This photo was the outside of my stepson Matt's apartment building in Nottinghill. It was fun to start London Doodles with photos from that trip. At least yearly I intend to add a city doodle or two to the series. I've done Paris and London... maybe a resort type location next. And of course NYC.

london doodles

/

 

Queen Mother, Lady Diana, William and Kate, Summer Olympics 2012... not to mention London of the 60s, the Beatles, Carnaby Street, mini-skirts. London is always hip. So it made sense that London Doodles should be second in the City Series after Paris Doodles...

Now that London Doodles is done I will be wearing the IT hat again. Progress is being made. My MacBook Air is now a 'working' computer vs. a email/blog/coffee shop computer. I can now scan and use FontLab and hook it up to the 23" monitor. One computer down, 2 to go. Not upgrading this one to Lion for a loooooooong time. I like to keep older computers with the old OS until I absolutely have to change. It allows me to go back and work in older software versions if I have to. And every so often I do.

font friday... webfonts

/

 

unfortunately the world of fonts seems ever-changing. Always something new to learn and new to manage. Now there are webfonts. Normally if you want a font to show up in a heading and it was not a common web-safe font you would need to create a graphic of that headline, save that piece of art and insert it into your webpage. But now there are webfonts.

How this works is...

1. You either buy the font and you put that font on your ftp site. Or you pay a monthly subscription fee to use that font on your site. (I personally prefer buying a font outright because I just know that I'd cancel a credit card and forget about that small monthly fee and find that my site lost all the good fonts. Different vendors sell different ways.)

2. Either way code is placed in the CSS Style Sheet.

3. I put a small amount of code in the post I am writing that allows that font to be used.

I don't write code so I am a bit challenged by this but thanks to my smart Apple One to One Trainer Paul this is all working.

And that is why I designed this font Drop Cap One. I wanted an initial cap font to use in the redesign of my site. Since I didn't see one out there I decided to make one.

Webfonts are not the same as  desktop fonts and if you want your print and web presence to be the same you would have to buy both fonts. I don't create my own webfonts. But currently 2 companies (with 2 more soon) offer all of my fonts as webfonts. If you want Drop Cap One as a web font you can buy it at FontSpring or MyFonts.com.

And here is a more in depth explanation on the how-to end of this. Installing Webfonts from FontSpring.

 

7-day free trial to lynda.com

font friday...free font of the month

/

Paris, who doesn't adore Paris? We were there several years ago and I was smitten with the iron work balconies, iron work on the doors, decorations on the tiles, OK almost everything visual. When I came home I made 2 decorative fonts based on what I saw. This month Fleurons of Paris is the FREE font. Link to download is to the right.

This month's new font is the often requested Lake Vacation Doodles. Later in the year I will do a more resort/island version of the same thing. This was quite fun to do and hopefully fun for all of you to use to make all your Summertime party invitations.

What is on the drawing board... I have been scribbling on what I hope is the beginning of a modern calligraphy font. Nancy has been sending me quite charming drawings of women.

I'm using some new technology this week so I hope all goes well. If you have gotten here via the Free Font of the Month email then my new attempt using MailChimp worked. I also hope my new download page works. As I am writing this it seems a little buggy. I may have tried too many new things in one month.

And if you have just stumbled on today's post by accident and want to get on the email list there is a new sign up box to the right.

Happy Summer!

font friday...lake vacation doodles

/

 

just in time for Summer. New font... Lake Vacation Doodles for your camping, sailing,  picnicking Summertime vacation needs. With these little graphics your party invitations just design themselves. Add an Outside the Line hand lettered font and you are good to go. And since it is finally Summer and this is a Summer font I thought I'd offer it for 20% off for a little while.

And if you need some lake themed notes Jessica from Jack & Ella Paper Press has them for you. Check out her etsy shop. These make great hostess gifts.

type tuesday... typographic trees...

/

 

Gordon Young is a visual artist who focuses on creating art for the public domain. His work ranges from sculptures to typographic pavements for places as disrelated as government headquarters and village squares. The common denominator for all projects is the basis of relevance to the surroundings. This tree and others can be seen at the Crawley Library, West Sussex, UK

100 FREE Business cards- 240x120