Every now and again we take a look around, select "fresh" high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects.

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Current technology can break Web type free from the Georgia/Verdana prison, but getting all the stakeholders—Web designers, type designers, font vendors, and browser vendors—to agree on a standard may be a bigger challenge than the technology.

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I shot the Serif, but I did not shoot the Century :)

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Apple founder Steve Jobs has been honoured with a portrait created from fonts used on his computers and other gadgets.

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The ubiquitous, bubbly typeface has spawned a Ban Comic Sans movement, nearly a decade old but stronger now than ever, thanks to the Web.

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Typography is elegant when it is attractive and communicates the designer's ideas. When chosen wisely and used carefully, it can be very effective in supporting the overall design.

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From the web site: Ever seen a great font in a magazine ad, poster, or on the web and wondered what font it is? Whip out your iPhone and snap a photo, and WhatTheFont for iPhone will identify that font in seconds!

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Going 'Green" with fonts

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In an effort to increase environmental awareness, the Dutch media company Spranq has introduced Ecofont, a perforated font that saves printing ink.

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Dutch marketing and communications company Spranq has come up with a novel and free way of slashing printer ink costs by developing a font with holes in it.

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It's no secret that fonts on the web suck. The problem is that, in order to use a font on the web, the actual font file must exist on the user's computer.

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Arial is everywhere. If you don't know what it is, you don't use a modern personal computer. Arial is a font that is familiar to anyone who uses Microsoft products, whether on a PC or a Mac.

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Reading, writing and language are all fundamental to civilisation and just as old - think hieroglyphs, cuneiform, pictograms.

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This somewhat harkens back to an earlier article on the vine about the love of fonts. This just takes it to a new level. Although somewhat kitschy, it shows the fluidity of fonts. I'm still loyal to Palantino tho'...

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SenCSS is a sensible standards CSS Framework. This means that SenCSS tries to supply standard styling for all repetitive parts of your CSS, allowing you to focus on the fun parts.

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excerpt:"In April, an online font clearinghouse called FontShop quietly uploaded a program that, the company wrote, was meant to be "purely entertaining—something to kickstart creativity." FontStruct, a browser tool that lets anyone create an original font, was so popular that  …

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I love fonts. Here's someone who really digs Obama's choice, and just by the way hates Clinton and McCain's. I love his description of McCain's as "suitable for the hygiene aisle". On Obama's "Gotham":

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Web designing is fun to learn, practice and really easy to understand. It can even earn you quite something if you know how to do it. In this age, where the internet plays a great role in everybody's life, web designing can actually be a source of income.

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Have you ever seen a really cool font on a sign, product, or website and you wanted to use it for something? If you have then you need to go visit TypeNow which has a selection of over 300 fonts all available for free.

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A little flash game pitting Helvetica against its cheap clone, Arial.

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Brian Kent is a prolific font designer. At 32 years old he's already amassed an impressive collection of handmade fonts. He's also a really nice guy and has agreed to let me package his free fonts for Ubuntu.

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WebKit now supports CSS @font-face rules.

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lots of free fonts that you can test before downloading

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"So, what do you see?" Martin Pietrucha I asked, turning around in the driver's seat of his mint green Ford Taurus. It was a cold day in January, and we were parked in the middle of a mock highway set on the campus of Pennsylvania State University in State College.

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Very useful tips for the upcoming designers. You might find this interesting.

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