Being a small enterprise and working mainly for charities - with little or no budget - means having to trawl for free stuff images and fonts mainly. Hours can pass trying to find a well designed font. The lovely people @ Smashing Magazine have taken away some of the legwork by publishing a list of top free fonts. In my humble opinion they have a very good eye ! Expect to see a modified Otama e.p element[ pictured below] featured in an identity I'm doing for the Govanhill Baths Trust.
I love a bit of 50's kitsch! Lavanderia[below] is based on the fonts used in laundrette's in the San Francisco area. The font is designed by JAMES T. EDMONDSON [Student at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.] Now I have to find an excuse to use it .... mmmmm.
I can see Mosaic Leaf font below being used with one of my environmental clients. The typeface is free to use in commercial and non-commercial projects. Designed and prepared by Lukasz Kulakowski and Zbyszek Czapnik. I love the fact that the font is free but they encourage you to support them through non monetary gifts such as sweets or books. If I do get 'round to using it'll be fun thinking up an appropriate gift !
