Dispute is a free font created in 2000 by Johnw, aka SwatKat of Bionic Type (check out some of his other designs on that site, some pretty excellent funky distressed stuff). What is Dispute? A distressed and not too easy to read, cyber-techy-blobby-crunchy-dirty looking grunge display face. Why would you want that? I dunno .. but I think it looks pretty cool, so here it is. Download Dispute TTF font.
All Hooked up has an edgey bio-mechanical cyber-future feel from Canadian teacher and anagram puzzle creator Darren Rigby at Objets DArt.
“I do hand lettering even when I’m doing ordinary writing, or even not-so-ordinary writing, like solving crossword puzzles. The cryptics of Henry Hook are not puzzles that mere mortals should be trying to solve with a stopwatch in hand, so you might as well take your time. So while I was going through one of his books, I redid the grids on graph paper, and lettered my solutions in this font. I know. I’m completely disgusting.” Download All Hooked Up TTF.
Miniml fonts are vector-based pixel font emulations that are designed to remain aliased in Flash. Aliased fonts improve legibility by having increased contrast, especially at small sizes. To remain crisp, the fonts need to be used according to specific guidelines. Miniml fonts are created by Milwaukee, Wisconsin based designer Craig Kroeger. This download is three free faces from miniml fonts – free to use in commercial or personal work. Central European and Cyrillic characters are also supported in these truetype typefaces. This package includes Uni05_53, Uni05_54, Uni05_63 and Uni05_64. If you do any work in flash, his commercially available faces are highly regarded! Download UNI free TTF fonts.
Yard Sale is from Jennifer Heinicke in Kansas of Fonts a Go Go at the Postmodern Village, she says “After spending a day going to garage sales/tag sales/yard sales with my mother, I became frustrated with the amount of people who didn’t know how to make their letters large enough to read from the street. This font, huge at 12 pt, is for them.” Yard Sale is good for simple signs that need a hand-done appearance, not too fancy, not too junky. Look on the table you may find something you like for a buck or two. Download Yard Sale Truetype zip file.
Stencilcase TTF is a nice hand drawn/stencil look ‘toyware’ font from Robot Johnny (John Martz), a cartoonist and illustrator living in Ottawa, Ontario Canada. He also is responsible for the creation of the quirky fun Fruity Drink type face that was posted a few months ago. Johnny says “Remember those little plastic lettering stencils? Now you can more easily make little cruddy letters with this font. Two weights for your fonting enjoyments – regular and extra chunky (er, bold, that is).” That pretty much sums it up – the regular version is a little more scratchy looking and open, the bold adds some weight to the face and closes it up a bit. Download Stencilcase Truetype fonts.
LineMap from London, England based designer Kenn Munk is a nice, linear/bitmap/squared off face that reminds me a bit of Emigres Oblong typeface from 1988. Kenn created LineMap in six weights and has thankfully made this regular weight version available for you to download. It is sort of a bitmap script face, the letters all connect just like a hand drawn face, but this one is nice a chunky-pixel-bitmappy and it is also worth nothing that LineMap is the font used by 37% of the world’s android monks. Download LineMap Regular TTF from Kenn Munk Dot Com.
Rollergirls is a fun shareware font from Claes at FuelFonts “a small swedish typefoundry” – Fuel is a pretty well established name amongst typeface designers, having been putting together great shareware faces since 1997! Rollergirls is an ideal choice if you are looking for something that’s easy on the eyes and fun to use, and to make it a little more enjoyable – Claes has made the dots on the lowercase i and j from little hearts (for the most, upper and lower case letters are very similar in this face). The rollergirl letterforms are a little out of the ordinary, geometric and mix the angular with nice oblong roundess. Download Rollergirls TTF font from FuelFonts.
