I was super excited when I found out about Wordmark.it from the Jetstreamprojector's Blog. It was a great find and something I'm sure a lot of you out there would appreciate. Wordmark.it is a site that allows you to preview all the fonts installed on your machine. All you have to do is just type in whatever word you want and bam! It gives you a visual representation of what it will look like with the font's installed on your machine. Just like in the above image. The creator behind this site is Fahri Özkaramanlı and let me be one of the people that thanks you for creating this. It will now save me a lot of time from sitting there going through my fonts to find the right one. Now I can do it in a one stop shop in less time and for that I thank you.

I have been working on a logo design for a company and sometimes I get a little blocked when it comes to picking the right kinds of fonts to go with my design. Then I received an email from my boss with an article on "Four Ways to Mix Fonts" by H&FJ. This article came in handy for helping me work with the fonts that I have and finding ones that will complement each other. H&FJ's Highly Scientific First Principle of Combining Fonts is: keep one thing consistent, and let one thing vary. It is basically the interplay between the fonts that can give the mood for the design. They talk about making different palettes to assist in choosing your fonts. The four they talk about are wit, energy, poise, and dignity. I highly recommend this article to anyone who is in design or is looking to have more knowledge in fonts.

I am one who enjoys looking for new fonts that can make my document or art look more attractive or stand out more. So today I thought I would share a few websites in which you will be able to start building or adding to your font collection. If you’re looking for those professional high quality fonts that you can download for free and which works for both Mac and Windows then you can try the following websites. These site will help you find what your looking for.

1. Dafont

DaFont is one of my personal favorite websites that not only gives me a huge number of fonts to download. The fonts presented on this website are their authors’ property, and are either freeware, shareware, demo versions or public domain. The licence mentioned above the download button is just an indication. Please look at the readme-files in the zips or check the indicated author’s website for details, and contact him/her if in doubt.

2. Abstractfont

Abstractfonts is one of the largest website in offering free fonts to its users. Currently they are offering over 12,933 free fonts and still growing. Each of the fonts has a customizable string preview, character map, member comments, similar fonts as well as a font info tab with all kinds of helpful information about the font.

3. Search Free Fonts

SearchFreeFonts is a website with a very simple layout. It helps you find free fonts by category. All free fonts have been manually categorized for easy navigation and best free font searching experience!

4. WhatTheFont

WhattheFont is a very cool website that allows you to upload a file on the font you’re looking for. Once done it will find you the closest match they have in their database.

Over the past couple of months on my researching of different fonts and websites. I have noticed a large increase in Grungy style websites and graphics. So I thought I would give you some Fonts that can help with your designs. While most of the fonts on this list can’t really be used for website copy and articles, they can certainly be used for logos and headings or other types of graphics.

Dirty English

Docteur Atomic

A Bite



Defused



Got Heroin



Cocaine Sans


Ginga