Fontage! the Blog

New Menu, New Home Page.

2008-12-05T17:29:00.000-08:00

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	Yoinks
Rackham	DreadLox	BetaDance
Adelaide	Beatsville	Monkey Chunks
TimeScriptDMed	Zaleski
dinc Type	Blue Valentines	Grievous Angel
ignatz	Kiss Me	Lounge
Messaround	Messkit	Secrets
Spacegun	Sway	Woody
Fuel Fonts	Bomberman	Lotus Flower
Mobster	Puffy Dreamland	Super Highway
Veruca
Nick Curtis	Back Stage Pass A	BellhopNF
Cameo Appearance	KismetNormal	Milton Burlesque
Nickley-NormalA	Pastiche	Tobaccorow
TucsonTwoStep

July, August, September - All At Once

2008-09-21T09:29:00.000-07:00

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	Black Shirt Slime Trail
Blood Feast	Blood of Dracula	Bootleg
Creature	Frankendork	Frankendork Hollow
Frankendork Tall	Horror Hotel	Jahreskreis
Waking The Witch	Whiffy	Witchcraft Normal
A selection of metaphysical fonts	101 Book of Shadows	Agathodaimon
AstroGadget	AstroGanza	AstroScript
PR Astrological	SL Zodiac Icons	Theban
Widget	Widget Outline	Zodiac98
Some additional fonts by Peter Rempel	PR Uncials	PR Uncial Alternate Caps
PR Uncial AltExpanded Caps	PR Celtic Narrow
Some additional fonts by Rotodesign	Zombie	Damaged Goods
Papercut	Motrhead Grotesk	Salaryman
Jinky
Some additional fonts by Su Lucas	SL Wash	SL Mythologial Sillouettes

June has finally arrived...

2008-06-11T18:04:00.000-07:00

Or I have. My hobby is Fontage. My profession is website design. The downside to having clients is they expect me to do work for them. And they throw money at me to enforce it. So Fontage got a little delayed. (And so did the Daniel Designs website. I'm converting it to Joomla! and had to stop mid process to work on client stuff.)

What we've got this month are two designers who named fonts after chemicals, chlorine and phosphorus. If you know of others, drop me a line. It's a majorly silly thing and I had fun with it.

Chlorine fonts from Caffeen	Chloreal	Chlorenuf
Chloriin	Chlorinar	Chlorinuh
Chlorinej	Chlorinut	Chlorinov
Chlorinez	Chlorix
Phosphorus fonts from Derek Vogelpohl	Phosphrous Bromide	Phosphrous Chloride
Phosphrous Dihydride	Phosphrous Fluoride	Phosphrous Hydride
Phosphrous Iodide	Phosphrous Oxide	Phosphrous Selenide
Phosphrous Sulphide	Phosphrous Tribromide	Phosphrous Trichloride
Phosphrous Triselenide	Phosphrous

Gaming fonts; African fonts

2008-05-01T14:39:00.000-07:00

In the course of hunting up fonts for last month's D&D extraveganza (or the Fontage approximation), I found Cumberland Fontworks. They've got some cool fonts for gaming.

And in the course of meandering around the web, I found a company that specializes in Maps of Africa. They've got some cool Afrika style fonts.

That, the day job, and a nasty case of bronchitis, pretty much took up April.

Cumberland Fontworks	Sparks Free	Thunder Thighs
Thunder Thighs Shadow	Spacedock Stencil	Futurex Apocalypse
Temphis Runes	Wolves And Ravens	Punkinhead
Archipelago	mexlar
Fonts From Afrika	Afrika T Ndlovu	Afrika RockArt N Cberg2
Afrika Images F Mbizo	Afrika T Ubuntu	Afrika Children A Rural
Afrika Wildlife B Mammals 2	Afrika Gold A Patterns	Afrika Images G Sangoma
Afrika Rock Art K Bkloof3	Afrika Wildlife Birds	Afrika T iQqwara

Ramona and copyright

2008-05-01T14:22:00.001-07:00

With certain fonts with a dubious copyright history, I'm stuck between not showing people a font they know, or saying "Nyah, nyah, this is the font but you can't have it." I've chosen to display the fonts, in hopes that one day I'd find a match.

Well, thanks to Jonathan, one font now has a commercially available equivalent. The font Ramona is listed as copyright SoftKey and WSI, who have been shown to be blatant font pirates. The equivalent is Bristol Adornado from MyFonts.

Again, thanks, Jonathan.

E. Gary Gygax and Dungeons and Dragons

2008-04-01T21:05:00.000-07:00

I learned D&D way back when, just when D&D got its own books, and wasn't simply fantasy rules at the back of Chainmail. When I heard that E. Gary Gygax had died, I thought I'd do a bit of D&D fonts, as a tribute.

So I dug out a few runic fonts, and found a few hieroglyphs to go with. And then a few medieval fonts, which led to some renaissance scripts, which led to a whole new set of categories.

Again.

Ancient Fonts Runes Hieroglyphs	Achilles	Caliguladodgy
Cypriot	Hello Cleo Petra	Lisbjerg
Old Egypt Glyphs	Oscan	Pictish Thebian
RK Meroitic (Demotic)	RK Meroitic (Hieroglyphics)	RK Meroitic Transcript
RK Persian Cuneiform	RK Sanskrit	RK Symbol Accented
RK Ugaritic	RK Ugaritic Transscript
Medieval Fonts Uncials Miniscules	Brigida	British Block Flourish 10th c
British Museum 14th c	British Outline Majescules	Carmilla
Gaheris	Justinian	Minim ExtraBold
Minim Outline ExtraBold	Mordred	Orotund
OrotundCaps	Rustick Capitals
Renaissance Fonts Scripts Period Writings	AquilineTwo	Chancera
Cochin Archaic	Hadrianus	Hesperides
IlShakeFest	John Speed	Platthand
Rudolfo	Spanish Round Bookhand 16th c
Historical Dingbats and Ornaments	Ancient Heads	En Klassisk Maaned
Greek1	Greek Art	Little People
LMS Egyptian Bookends	Mythology1	Pretty Pottery
The Middle Ages 3

What you find when you're not really looking

2008-03-20T14:59:00.000-07:00

Looking for something totally not font related, I find this gem of a font from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. They couldn't find a font to do what they wanted, so some font geek in the MN DNR built one.

And something that will definitely prove useful, a font of Euro symbols. Just Euro symbols, in quite a few different font designs, for all those old fonts built before Euros.

And a couple of very short dingbat fonts. Just for fun.

DNR Recreation Symbols	Ubiqita Europa
Simple Melody	Floorplans Demo

Request for fonts

2008-03-18T13:41:00.000-07:00

I've had some requests for fonts that I'd like to pass on to you.I find what I find, so if you know of some others, let me know. I try adding fonts you can actually download, whether free/share/purchaseware. Including Garrison Kayo, used for Bruce Almighty, which started life as Gill Sans Ultra Bold.

Requests include:
New York Yankees
New York Mets
Font used by White Lion, which is a great font!
Buffalo Bills: I've got a font that looks similar, but the numbers don't match the jersey numbers.

Any suggestions would be welcome

I've got the "match the stupid looking word" thing to verify you're real. Forgive me, but it keeps me from getting viagra spam thru the blogger email.

A few more fonts for St. Patricks' Day; And a few from Chank Diesel

2008-03-10T16:48:00.000-07:00

It's easier to add fonts using Blogger, so I am. The pages that were missing from last week should now be online. A few extras for St. Patrick's Day, and adding more Chank Diesel fonts. Don't get used to it. The clients that throw money at me come first. www.danieldesigns.com Website Design end Blatant Plug

Fonts from Chank Diesel
	Flubber	Flutterby
Kegger Collegiate	Schwinger	Schwing Shift
Fonts for St. Patrick's Day
Corbei Uncials	Kelt Caps Freehand	KR Belated St Pat
KR St Pat Dings	Leprechaun Hats	Oncial
Stonecross

More famous fonts; new category - music

2008-03-04T18:07:00.000-08:00

I've added some more Famous fonts, since I've gotten more email in the past few weeks I've had famous fonts on Fontage than I have in the past few years. Don't argue with success.

I've also added a new category, Music fonts. These are fonts with instruments, music notes or symbols, and stuff relating to music in general. There are several music fonts by Manfred Klein. I knew his fonts were available all over the net, but until just recently, didn't know what the terms of distribution were. They are now listed with the fonts, and on his foundry page.

There are also a few odds and ends just to round things out.

Odds and Ends	Chlod	Gizmo
Gizmo Shadow	Tubular Hollow
More Famous Fonts	Araknoid	The Craft
Dumbledor 1	Dumbledor 1 3D	Dumbledor 1 Cut Down
Dumbledor 1 Cut Up	Dumbledor 1 Italic	Dumbledor 1 Outline
Dumbledor 1 Shadow	Dumbledor 1 Thin	Dumbledor 1 Wide
I think Graham Meade missed Dumbledor 1 Upside Down
Grand Theft Auto	Monster Magnet	Pacman
Pit Fighter	Playstation	Reservoir Dog
SuperMarioWorld	StarCraft	Turok
Whitesnake	Weekly World News	X-Box
Music Fonts	Alpha Music Man	Amadeus
CC Yuletide Log	DJ Supreme	Kingdom Come
KRMusic Class	Musicals	Music Elements
Musicians	Musicians One	Musicians Two
Music Instruments	Superstar DJ	Symphony in ABC

Ironic kerning!

2008-02-22T16:33:00.000-08:00

From the blog of Ironic Sans comes:

Keming

Must read!

It's Valentine's Day and I give you Pirates!

2008-02-14T10:32:00.000-08:00

Last month, I did over 200 new fonts, 400 images, associated zip files, and generally went overboard. This month, not only am I late, I only did 29 new fonts, most of them pirate fonts. Unfortunately for me, and for Fontage, I have a business, and clients. I was fighting with Joomla! Now Joomla! is a really cool content management system, but it was written by geeks, for geeks, and apparently the help files can only be understood by geeks. After spending almost five days trying to get Joomla 1.5 working, because "We don't support 1.0 any more, so you should upgrade," I went back to 1.0 for the simple reason it actually installed.

So Fontage is a bit thin this month. Pirates, and some odds and ends including several fonts by Anthem Type. Scriptorium has a cool collection of piraty fonts in their Colonial collection. They've got a lot of great stuff. Some day, I may be able to afford to buy the real font, instead of having just the demo version.

Odds And Ends	Air Millhouse Outline	Drew Carey Show
President	Sepultura	Sepultura
Anthem Type	Decade	Lunch
Nicotine	Silver Sideshow	Uptown
PIRATES!	Alleghieri Demo	ArmadaPirata
Arrr Matey	Blackwoodcastle	Blackwoodcastle Shadow
Booter	Callimundial	Clerica
Freebooter	Freebooter Script	Freebooter Shadow
Malagua Demo	Pieces Of Eight	Pirates Blackbeard
Pirates Bonney	Pirates Drake	Pirates Stoertebecker
Rosemary Roman	Satanas Humanum	Treasuremap Deadhand
Windlass

What's New for January 2008

2008-01-01T01:00:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the new look of Fontage. We has Blog! What's New will start here, then link to the new fonts. So whatever I do each month can be archived forever. Bwahahahaha.

I was going to start a new "Year of" something or other, but as I was sorting through the thousands and thousands of fonts, deleting hundreds of duplicates, I kept coming across "Famous" fonts. So we start 2008 with a tribute to Famous things. Sports Teams (GREEN BAY!) (except I don't have Green Bay yet)(UPDATE: found Green Bay font!), toys, movies, reruns of tv shows because the writers are on strike (GO writers!), classic lead-free games.

Normally, I have 35 to 40 new fonts, but this month I have over two hundred. The new category is Famous Fonts.

Bands Groups & Music	Cars & Motorcyles
Comics, Mags, Newspapers	Companies & Restaurants
Famous Fonts - Misc	Food & Beverage Logo
Games Toys & Computer Games	Sports Teams
TV and Movie fonts

And two existing categories:

Tolkien & Fantasy Runes

Science Fiction

Bands and Related Stuff More @ Fontage! (Back to top)	Bone Thugs N Harmony	Bon Jovi
Beatles	Beatles	Black Label Society
Chemical Brothers	Deftones	the Doors
Eminem	Everclear	FireHouse
The Flys	Godsmack	Guns N Roses
Iron Maiden	Iron Maiden	Jamiroquai
Kittie	Korn	No Doubt
Nirvana	Pearl Jam	Pink Floyd
Radiohead	Radiohead	Saliva
Smashing Pumpkins	Smashing Pumpkins	Temple of the Dog
Verve	Verve	Verve
VH1	weezer	ZZZ Top

Famous Cars, Tires and Boats More @ Fontage! (Back to top)	911 Porscha Bold	911 Porscha Condensed
911 Porscha Italic	911 Porscha Left Italic	911 Porscha Laser
911 Porscha	Delorean	Eagle GT II
Ford Motor Company	Ferrari	Ford Script
Grand Prix	Mercury Marine	Pontiac
Volkswagon

Comics, Magazines Newspapers More @ Fontage! (Back to top)	Bazooka Joe	Esquire
Garfield	Garfield	Mad Magazine
New York Times	New Yorker	Omni
PlayBoy	Rolling Stone	Rolling Stone
Times Magazine

Companies, Restaurants More @ Fontage! (Back to top)	Burger King	Burger King
Dunkin Donuts	Hardrock Cafe	IMAX
NASA	Macy's

Miscellaneous Fame More @ Fontage! (Back to top)	Got Milk	Hollywood Hills
Lockergnome	Sydney 2000	United States

Food and Drink More @ Fontage! (Back to top)	Coca Cola	Kool Aid
Mountain Dew	Oreos	Pepsi
Pez	Snickers Regular

Board Games Computer Games Computers More @ Fontage! (Back to top)	Atari	Atari Extended
Final Fantasy	GI Joe	Hot Wheels
Madden Football	NBA Live	Quake

Sports Teams More @ Fontage! (Back to top)	Green Bay Packers	Indianapolis Colts
Minnesota Vikings	Minnesota Timberwolves	New Orleans Saints
Oakland Raiders	Pittsburgh Steelers	Pittsburgh Steelers
Tampa Bay Buccaneers	Toronto Maple Leaf

TV and Movies More @ Fontage! (Back to top)	Brady Bunch	Captain Kidd
Golden Globe Awards	Cops	Crocodile Hunter
DickVanDyke	Dynasty	ESPN
Evita	Godfather	Godfather
Harry Potter	Harry Potter	I still know
Nightmare Before Christmas	Predator	Quantum Leap
Ren & Stimpy	Romeo & Juliet

Fontage! The Blog Begins

2007-12-20T13:12:00.000-08:00

About half way thru 2007, I realized I was deleting all my brilliant, witty and/or memorable commentary every month. As each month's What's New went online, the previous month's commentary was lost. So, how to keep the brilliant, witty... *ahem* the commentary while not ending up with dozens and dozens of archived WhatsNew files.

Enter the Blog. Duh.

With the added bonus of getting ~~spam from trolls~~ feedback from visitors!