Site for fonts

annthegran.com has quite a few for free

Debbi in SO CA

For Usenet, try alt.binaries.fonts

For WWW, do a Google search for thousands of hits.

That's kind of like asking "Do you have any pictures?" There are tens of thousands of different fonts - not even counting clones.

Are you looking for: serious literary fonts? themed fonts? foreign language fonts? fonts that don't have letters but pictures (aka dingbats)? fun-fonts? fonts made out of things?

Here are a couple of places to start:

Large mixed assortment,categorized Serious Logos Silly Huge collection of themed fontsor, for Dingbats, also google for Free Font SitesSome of the hits will be to infinite loops of phony sites, but most willbe good sources.

- Herb

Those are design alphabets, not fonts. (Of course, that COULD be what Beth really meant!)

- Herb

FYI - The font "Valentine Hearts" on page 6 of the Valentine's day grouping in dafont is one that I created (under my alt.binaries.fonts name) based on an embroidery alphabet (whose name and origin I neglected to document and can no longer remember).

- Herb

I am now in Orange County. Grew up in the San Fernando Valley. Went to San Diego State.

Debbi in SO CA

Yes, I'm looking for . Design alphabets don't count. I want to embroider names onto pillowcases and the design alphabets won't work for me. I'll still look at annthegran, though.

SO CA, huh? Whereabouts? Former SD native myself.

Very nice font, I have now downloaded it. This information just confirms what I have known all along. You are one very smart and talented man! Take a bow (grin)!

Edna

Unfortunately, no. Not even close. Your sewing machine only understands stitches, not fonts. The only things you can put on a card to feed into your embroidery machine are the one kind of file that it understands. I think I remember that you have the Brother PE150, which I think takes .pes files.

In order to create your own design (whether it's text or a picture) or modify an existing design you need embroidery software. To use computer fonts, that software has to be able to use fonts. PE-Design is one of the programs that in fact can do that. Others include Origins and Artista. Some programs, such as Embird and Viking Customizer, have their own proprietary "fonts" that are NOT computer fonts, but are recognized and usable only by that specific software. Naturally, they charge exhorbitantly for such pseudo-fonts. Both types of software let you enter text via the keyboard and re-size the text much as you can in a word processing program. Most of the embroidery programs that can do this also have special effects such as lettering in a circle or shaping the text to fit inside some shape.

You can use DESIGN alphabets with any embroidery software (those are usually a separate design file for each character). These, like any design, come in a specific size that you can change by about 10%, and you have to combine as many designs as there are letters in your text, positioning the letters manually.

- Herb

:)

I think the cheapest way to get into this would be to buy Embird 2003 for about $80, then buy their new font engine for about $150. The font engine will enable you to digitize TTF fonts; save as .pes (or whatever), then you're good to go.

Do a google search for the genre of fonts you want, like Script, Baroque, etc. You will find thousands of them for free. You can also go thru your CD application disks, many have font folders on them with hundreds. Corel puts lots of nice fonts on most of their CDs. I have collected most of my fonts from such sources. If you have stores that feature bankrupt lots of stuff, you can buy an application of fonts for a few dollars. The software may be old, but the fonts are still usable in any application. Look for drawing or graphics programs too, they usually have loads of them.

99% of all the fonts out there are in the public domain, you can use them for whatever you need.

You have to install (in Windows) any fonts you want to use first. Open the fonts folder in the control panel, select Add new font from file menu. Then navigate to the folder you have the unzipped fonts in. The wizard will find all the fonts, select "select all" and OK. These fonts will then be installed on your system and then will show up in the application.

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