font fever

I am something of a late convert to the current craze for typography.

Or rather, I think I’ve always liked a nice font, but it was a sort of passive liking, lurking at the edges of my consciousness.

Since beginning to blog, however, and to design modflowers’ logos, flyers, business cards and suchlike, things have changed.

I have turned into a total typeface totty. A lettering lover. A fully fledged font fan.

I discovered My Fonts the other day. Oh my goodness.

The phrase “like a child in a sweetshop” comes to mind.

I almost drooled as I scrolled feverishly through the vast array of typographical loveliness on offer.

And then after I gushed about My Fonts on twitter, the lovely mini moderns tipped me off about Font Squirrel – where all the fonts are free to download!

Like this one:

And this one:

And this!

I set about merrily adding some freebies to my font library.

When and how I might actually use any of them is unclear. After all, you can have too much of a good thing.

I don’t much like seeing a cacophony of curly-wurly novelty fonts spread all over a page.

Or pictures with everything captioned, just as an excuse to work in that spinky-spanky new typeface.

But it makes me happy to know that they are there… waiting.