[Samione]

Is there any variation on the Bauhaus 93 font with legible commas? The ones in there at the moment just look like full stops unless it's at about size 72.

[steveb]

At a guess, I'd say you simply need to use legible commas from another font like Blippo or Futura Black. Since this is a display font, you surely won't have a great deal of text to deal with...

[Samione]

Originally Posted by steveb

At a guess, I'd say you simply need to use legible commas from another font like Blippo or Futura Black. Since this is a display font, you surely won't have a great deal of text to deal with...

Yeah, there isn't masses of text. I still only have the default fonts that come with photoshop, I didn't even know kerning was until I signed up to this forum. They don't teach you shit at school.

[steveb]

Oh boy! There's so much to kerning that I don't think they'd be able to teach it at school. Becoming expert at it means spending years deeply in love with the shapes of letters. Kerning is a very nerdy business. They should call it nerding, in fact.
I'm not expert but I can spot the worst kerning mistakes in a font and if I'm using Photoshop, it's easy enough to correct them. If they're in Word, they just have to stay as they are.

[Samione]

Originally Posted by steveb

Oh boy! There's so much to kerning that I don't think they'd be able to teach it at school. Becoming expert at it means spending years deeply in love with the shapes of letters. Kerning is a very nerdy business. They should call it nerding, in fact.
I'm not expert but I can spot the worst kerning mistakes in a font and if I'm using Photoshop, it's easy enough to correct them. If they're in Word, they just have to stay as they are.

I think I need some new fonts. Is dafont.com an OK place to get them from?

[steveb]

Dafont is good, so is this Abstract Fonts - your type - 10 000 Free Fonts

[Samione]

Originally Posted by steveb

Dafont is good, so is this Abstract Fonts - your type - 10 000 Free Fonts

What's the deal with licensing on abstract fonts?

[steveb]

Found this in the forum there, regarding where you can use the fonts.

the only way to be 100% sure is to read optionally included readme files. If there is none, then sometimes the fonts themselves contain useful information and can be viewed with some special programs, like windows font viewer which, i think, comes pre-installed with windows. On Linux(with KDE) and Mac they are definitely present.

Many of them are shareware and some designers require you to share or send them a sample or pay a fee or send an email or...

In general, you can use any of the fonts there for your own personal stuff, or for a school project but if you want to use a font for a commercial purpose, like on a CD cover or in a magazine advertisement, you ought to get in touch with the font designer and ask permission.

[John Good]

Most of these free fonts are bad ripoffs of commercial fonts.
Bad karma.

Stick to the good fonts you have. Default libraries are often underestimated

[Samione]

Originally Posted by John Good

Most of these free fonts are bad ripoffs of commercial fonts.
Bad karma.

Stick to the good fonts you have. Default libraries are often underestimated

I might look into buying some then, i'm guessing you can get libraries of them on disc, recommend any?