9800 Free Fonts

Great site. Thanks for sharing.

Chrissy

Thanks, I bookmarked for downloading later.

Since I'm a charmed fan I love the font.

How cool is this! Thank you so much for sharing this with the rest of us!!!

I gonna get busy looking! Michelle P.

Scout Lady wrote:

Just keep one thing in mind when it comes to the freeware, shareware, no cost fonts. They can and a lot of times can cause problems. If the fonts aren't done correctly they can crash your software, if you install too many they can slow you system down to a crawl. At any one time you shouldn't have more than 500 fonts installed. I don't know how many times I have seen bad font files be the cause of programs like Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Word, Publisher, etc. crashing. I know programs like Photoshop and Elements read all of the font files each time it is loaded and it stores this information in memory to speed up the creation of text in the program and so this means less memory for your images or documents, not a good thing when you only have 256MB or 512MB of RAM, so if you have too many or you have bad fonts you will have problems.

Just be careful. I try to keep my fonts to 200 or less. If I need others I use a font manager to install them so that when I restart my computer the added fonts (the ones other than my standard 200) aren't loaded.

Robert

I will definately bookmark the page for future use. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the advice, Robert. Is there a particular font manager program that you or someone here can suggest?

If your on a Mac you have some good choices from

Thanks Robert. I'll have to keep the high logic site as future reference. Right now, I don't have hundreds of fonts installed, so I feel I'm doing pretty good. But if I keep seeing many more fonts here, I could get in trouble! LOL

Yah, I know what you mean I have like 8 CDs of fonts sitting around just in case I need something odd. For the most part I have a basic set that I use most often, but there are times when something odd will be needed.

Robert

I always feel nervous about installing fonts for fear of conflicts, etc. So, I keep a folder that I call fonts and just save them in there without ever actually installing them. When I want to use one, I click on the font, which opens it before I open the application (Word, Photoshop, etc.) and minimize it. Then when I scroll through the available fonts from within the actual software, the font is there and able to be used. But, once the font is closed, it disappears from the list. Sort of hard to explain... hope it makes sense.

That is what I do as well to keep my windows font folder as lean as possible.