[Damion]

Why do people buy fonts? When there are font sites with free fonts to download! Maybe its the quality of the style/design or maybe they have a big budget to play around with new and expensive fonts, don't really know! Could any of you enlighten me.

Cheers [color=Green]

[Bill Posters]

Maybe its the quality of the style/design or maybe they have a big budget to play around

C. All of the above.

[lucidcreations]

You cant just download decent fonts, try to get something like Officina for free. The best you'll do is get it for around £15.

Remember the best fonts are licenced so its illegal to use them with out paying for them just like stock art.

[andrewparker]

Have you never bought a font Damion?

[Damion]

No haven't needed to, would like to get into creating my own collection though. Plus if i have a client that wants or has a very large budget i might consider in buying a font.

[cam]

The large budget thing is a little off-target. Sure there are some fonts linked to around here going for £200+ that are obviously restricted to the larger projects, but even if a project is something you're doing free of charge, it's still justifiable to purchase a particular font if it's what you're after - not only do you then have the font to use as you please, but there's no point going for some substandard alternative if it's a project that'll end up on your portfolio..

[Damion]

you've got a good point. do you or any1 have any good font site links to purchase fonts from?

[oli]

http://www.identikalshop.com/
http://www.t26.com/
http://www.emigre.com
http://www.fontshop.com
http://www.fontbureau.com

etc

[Damion]

cheers Oli, brilliant

[Bill Posters]

not forgetting www.myfonts.com which is an outlet for fonts from many foundries and designers,

[Damion]

cheers Bill