Favorite Font Tool

I'm taking a beginning Photoshop class from JessicaSprague.com - and one of the coolest finds from this is a free font organizing tool called The Font Thing. This is the greatest tool if you have lots of fonts! (Sorry Mac friends - it only works on Windows.)

Some of my favorite features - it displays all of the fonts installed on your computer. Then you can create "collections" and organize the fonts into these collections. You can put a font in more than one collection if you'd like. The program even has a preview pane where you can view multiple fonts in a collection all in one list - helpful if you want to compare how something is going to look in different fonts.

Sprague also lists her favorite free font sites - Dafont, UrbanFonts, BVFonts, HouseofLime, and MisprintedType. I'm excited to check them out! (and probably waste way too much time browsing through massive lists of fonts...)

I highly recommend the Sprague classes! I've learned quite a bit so far and plan on taking the next two classes in her series. She also has Photoshop Friday, where she posts free tutorials each week. (I've mentioned Photoshop Friday before on my blog)

Fonts for Peas

Eli and I are still under the weather. Today we both coughed a lot and somehow the day went by... hopefully we can both rest a lot this weekend and get better soon! I think the worst is over though, thankfully!

But it's time for a more upbeat post. One of my diva friends from college, Brooke, posted today about a site where you can submit your handwriting to be turned into a font - for free! (They have the disclaimer that your handwriting may be turned into a font - there's no guarantee.) After practicing a few times, I submitted mine tonight to Fonts for Peas. My handwriting is definitely not fantastic, but I thought it would be fun to have it as a font just the same.

Free fonts

I found this free fonts site today and though it would be fun to share - Abstract Fonts. I like the categories section (found on the left sidebar) so you don't have to aimlessly weed through 10,000 fonts. If you don't know how to install fonts, check out the site's help section.

Do you have any fun fonts sites that you use? (or other types of free downloads)