Font torrents
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- Projectile
Know any decent font torrents?
ie ones that aren't 20, 000 fonts in one!! with christmas themes etc. One that you'd actually download.
Man pitch work can be frustrating! NO budget at all!!!
Also, what's the last non-helvetica font you used? Need some suggestions too
- honest0
Don't let baskerville hear you say this...
- neue75_bold0
not a torrent and a bit complicated to use, but I've gotten loads off here — http://www.ngindex.com/browsegro…
- do you have to sign up and pay monthly?mirrorball
- yeah, but it's like $5 or something like that and you could cancel after one month...neue75_bold
- but are there really actual good fonts on there? or is itr just another source of millions of free ones?Projectile
- um, just read the list, there's loads of shit, but there are some good ones...neue75_bold
- Projectile0
why, honest?
Is he one of those people that works in a hot shot agency that always has plenty budget for everything, and has developed "morals" about piracy because he can afford to??
HEY BASKERVILLE!!!
EVER HEARD OF BEING RESOURCEFUL?!(i hope he heard that. if only i could make it bold too..)
- Nairn0
Gosh darn it, I hate people who steal fonts - so don't (for the love G-d) let me catch you searching by foundry or font name in your favourite torrent search engine.
Damn you all to hell.
- TheBlueOne0
..and one wonders why Typographica doesn't come around anymore.
Look, maybe I'm old school, but..you know, I understand that all sorts of nefarious ways of getting resources and software exist, and I wouldn't deny utilizing them myself from time to time, but isn't it better to keep it all on the down low and not broadcast your skullduggery to the world? I mean, where has the sophistication and elegance gone in larceny these days? It breaks my heart, it does.
- honest0
we're bringing up a generation of designers who think movies and fonts and music are available for free online...
- They always were, I'm just saying have some class about it.TheBlueOne
- ryngo0
There already is a generation...
- TheBlueOne0
I"m just saying it's rather crass to come to a professional outlet for designers and those who support that industry with the necessary tools and say "Hey, where can I steal your shit?" We're not children and we know this stuff is available all over the place, but just, you don't have to be fucking uncivilized about it.
It's like walking into the local mafia hangout and asking "Hey, which one of you is Vinny, you know the guy that kills people for money?" Everyone knows who Vinny is and where he hangs out, but you look like a fucking classless novitiate to anyone with any breeding or experience in these matters.
*sighs. swirls scotch in tumbler and ponders getting old
- absolutely my thoughts on the matter. It is a question of class and taste, neither of which can be explained to someonemikotondria3
- +juhls
- This is a professional outlet?noRGB
- Marginally, yes...TheBlueOne
- So where is good ol' Vinny anyway?ukit
- itsmitch0
I really do have a solution for this. Charge your clients for the typefaces you need. If they can't afford it (here we go) don't fucking do work for them. Pretty easy. Design is not charity.
- Projectile0
Right.
So if i'm a print designer trying desperately to break through into web design, I've got complete creative freedom, it's a really big project if my pitch gets accepted..
..I should just snob them off? Tell them they're not good enough for me?!
It's not like they're not paying me, it;'s just that they don't wanna spend £100 for each typeface/image in each design that i present to them. I'm at a very early phase here, still deciding on an entire identity for the company. For a start-up, two-man company, im sure you can understand that they're not exactly Nike.
- neue75_bold0
generally you need to make a design first with a certain typeface, then if the client likes it, they pay for it... simple...
I do agree with theblueone though, I usually email around first if I'm looking for something specific, rather than publicly broadcasting it :)
- Exactly my point.TheBlueOne
- Most typeface sites generate low-res previews you can put in your mockups. If you must, use those until you pay for it.itsmitch
- fair enough, but I could never be bothered to typeset inside pages of a publication or a book with the preview from fontshopneue75_bold
- fontshop, but hey, guess I'm just lazy..neue75_bold
- dyspl0
If they can't afford to pay fonts, maybe their business doesn't need/deserves a nice expensive font?
1.make designs with fonts you already have
2.use dafont fonts. take the money. run. then don't put that work in your portfolio, unless it is very nice despite the poor font use.- Agreed.itsmitch
- fonts i have? like arial or gill? yeah THAT's gonna win me the pitch!!!Projectile
- you might have some more, no?
if not, then go to option 2.dyspl
- mikabast0
just use comic sans, and tell the client how much it will cost them to change it
- Projectile0
OK I do definitely see your point, by the way, Blue One. A thread on this forum and shouty capitals is perhaps taking the piss a little.
Though i'm not really part of a massive network of best-friends-come-designers that have time to dig out fonts for me.
..and of course I'd pay for a font if I were to actually use it for public use. And I was doing exactly that.. typing words out in dafont and chopping the white.. when i got fustrated and thought I'd see if there's any decent way to do it with a bit more future-proofing
Not really sure how to do it effectively AND discreetly, so I guess I'll just quit my current in-house job and wait a few years still a big agency job becomes vacant 8P
- I thought my tone was sufficiently snarky to not be offensiveTheBlueOne
- JourNYC0
Its always hard when you are not working at a design firm to have access to wide range of fonts. Back in the days, people would take fonts from work as they were simply files but now they are used via server side font managers.
I have about 30,000 fonts that I have collected over the years. I have paid about 45% of them. And that 45% is what I have paid for in last 10 years as obtaining fonts were getting easier.
I would suggest investing in fontbook and use fontbook as your tool to illustrate what type faces work for a particular project. As I have, most people hoard fonts and never use anything else beyond, helvatica, arial, din, futura ....
- JourNYC0
Simple solution.
Go to FontShop, use it's preview to get the graphical set you want. When you win the business, buy it.
Not the most ideal but it will help you in pitch purpose.
- Shaney0
you want ideas for fonts (withno brief like) then torrents for (y)our choice?. just to be clear....