Font links, opinions and resources:

Since we all just finished a movie and now are making pictures with letters there is NO BETTER time waster then the following link – it is Star Wars episode IV in ascii art. Amazing.

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/


Here is a link to a really great list of dingbat and font site links:

http://jeff.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/dingbats-arch.html


Here is one of my favorites, BE CAREFUL – Amy is not going to like many of these True Type fonts and if you send your job to a commercial printer with a lot of these fonts neither will your pre-press person. That said, IMHO life is too short not to occasionally indulge in a zany font or a full fat dessert. I like the organization and look of this site the best.

http://www.fontparadise.com/

Here is the mother of all free font sites:

http://www.flashkit.com/fonts/


Here are 2 sites that will identify your font for you.

http://www.identifont.com/

http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/



Here are some sites that Amy would like and I like them too:

http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/

http://graphicdesign.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.ideabook.com/typepale.htm


Here is the one that had the examples I brought to class:

http://www.rsub.com/typographic/


This is not font related but if you are a Windows user here are the secret keys to get those SÞé©ïål characters:

http://www.starr.net/is/type/altnum.htm