Friday, December 5, 2008

New Menu, New Home Page.

Via site stats, I found a lot of my visitors came to this page, and never went anywhere else. So I redesigned Fontage, with a cool menu down the left side. You may have to move the page up and down a bit to see all its pieces, but that's because Fontage has a lot of pieces. I want to add mouseover images so you can see a sample of each kind of fint, but that's for next time.

New fonts added include a new category, Beatnik, fonts from an era parallel to Era of the Automobile but with a different feel. Fonts a bit more scrambled, less neat.

Also, more fonts from three existing designers, dinc Type, Fuel Fonts, and Nick Curtis.

Beatnik
Fonts

Furioso
Furioso sample
Yoinks
Yoinks sample
Rackham
Rackham sample
DreadLox
DreadLox sample
BetaDance
BetaDance sample
Adelaide
Adelaide sample
Beatsville
Beatsville sample
Monkey Chunks
Monkey Chunks sample
TimeScriptDMed
TimeScipt sample
Zaleski
Zaleski sample
 

dinc Type

Blue Valentines
Blue Valentines sample
Grievous Angel
Grievous Angel sample
ignatz
ignatz sample
Kiss Me
Kiss Me sample
Lounge
Lounge sample
Messaround
Messaround sample
Messkit
Messkit sample
Secrets
Secrets sample
Spacegun
Spacegun sample
Sway
Sway sample
Woody
Woody sample

Fuel
Fonts

Bomberman
Bomberman sample
Lotus Flower
Lotus Flower sample
Mobster
Mobster sample
Puffy Dreamland
Puffy Dreamland sample
Super Highway
Super Highway sample
Veruca
Veruca sample
  

Nick
Curtis

Back Stage Pass A
Back Stage Pass sample
BellhopNF
BellhopNF sample
Cameo Appearance
Cameo Appearance sample
KismetNormal
KismetNormal sample
Milton Burlesque
Milton Burlesque sample
Nickley-NormalA
Nickley-NormalA sample
Pastiche
Pastiche sample
Tobaccorow
Tobaccorow sample
TucsonTwoStep
TucsonTwoStep sample
  

Sunday, September 21, 2008

July, August, September - All At Once

It's been a long three months. Busy hasn't been the word for it. I'm a CERT volunteer with the LA Fire Department, and have been doing mad CERT things. As part of that, I got my Technician Class Ham Radio license. I'm KI6RIO. You can contact me... just as soon as I get a radio. (I can hear someone ask why get a license if I don't have a radio. Because I can use someone else's radio in an emergency.) I also headed off to Denver in August, choosing to drive rather than fly.

I've been getting a lot of fan mail! Lots of people asking for various things. I have a partner now, who does the research thing. You can send font finding queries to research(at)fontage(dot)com. (Yeah, spam fighting is a nuisance!) A lot of queries have to to with sports or movie fonts. One thing we've found is that the font is often based on an existing font, but the graphic department has tweaked it to make it custom. If we know the base font, we can pass that on, but any tweaks to match the original will need to be done by you or your favorite graphic artist. Stuff should be coming in soon. Really.

DTC font foundry issued some great fonts, then went out of business. According to sources online (nice ambiguous phrase, isnt' it?), DTC licensed fonts from URW, so I've been looking for URW equivalents. Thanks to Gene, I have one. DTC's Frugal Sans is equivalent to Frutiger 45 Light.

Jim Pearson of Sterling Court Publishing has a website, with his entire collection of fonts. After you check out his page at Fontage, check out his site. Drop on by and say Lin from Fontage sent you.

There's a new category at Fontage (are we surprised?) called Metaphysical Fonts. It includes astrological symbols, theban, heiroglyphs, moon phases, other fun fonts of like nature. If you find a font elsewhere on this site that you think belongs in Metaphysical Fonts, drop me a line.

While hunting for more metaphysical fonts, I found a wonderful yet silly font by Su Lucas called Wash.

FONTAGE HAS A GAME! Totally silly, yet addictive. No, my playing the games was not why Fontage wasn't updated for almost three months. Honest!

A selection of
grunge fonts

Aftermath BRK
Aftermath BRK sample
Black Shirt Slime Trail
Black Shirt Slime Trail sample
Blood Feast
Blood Feast sample
Blood of Dracula
Blood of Dracula sample
Bootleg
Bootleg sample
Creature
Creature sample
Frankendork
Frankendork sample
Frankendork Hollow
Frankendork Hollow sample
Frankendork Tall
Frankendork Tall sample
Horror Hotel
Horror Hotel sample
Jahreskreis
Jahreskreis sample
Waking The Witch
Waking The Witch sample
Whiffy
Whiffy sample
Witchcraft Normal
Witchcraft sample

A selection of
metaphysical fonts

101 Book of Shadows
101 Book of Shadows sample
Agathodaimon
Agathodaimon sample
AstroGadget
AstroGadget sample
AstroGanza
AstroGanza sample
AstroScript
AstroScript sample
PR Astrological
PR Astrological sample
SL Zodiac Icons
SL Zodiac Icons sample
Theban
Theban sample
Widget
Widget sample
Widget Outline
Widget Outline sample
Zodiac98
Zodiac98 sample

Some additional fonts
by Peter Rempel

PR Uncials
PR Uncials sample
PR Uncial Alternate Caps
PR Uncial Alt Caps sample
PR Uncial AltExpanded Caps
PR Uncial Alt Expanded Caps sample
PR Celtic Narrow
PR Celtic Narrow sample
 

Some additional fonts
by Rotodesign

Zombie
Zombie sample
Damaged Goods
Damaged Goods sample
Papercut
Papercut sample
Motrhead Grotesk
Motrhead sample
Salaryman
Salaryman sample
Jinky
Jinky sample
  

Some additional fonts
by Su Lucas

SL Wash
SL Wash sample
SL Mythologial Sillouettes
SL Mythologial symbols sample