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Posts by metaphasebrothel



Manfred Klein retired from font design in early 2008, to care for his wife, who was very ill. Information I received from a third party suggested that he was ill himself, possibly with Alzheimer's Disease, or similar, (his English was poor; I believe the quote was 'he was becoming confused').

His fonts should be considered free for personal use, and Donationware for commercial use, ie: he would like you to donate a sum of your choice to a charity of your choice, if you use one of his fonts commercially. Doctors Without Borders is a suggested charity.

You can use his fonts for artwork on a music CD. You can't include any of his fonts on a compilation CD of fonts that would be sold commercially.



Bookman Old Style - depress the Alt key, type 7, (or 249, or 250), from the number pad, release Alt.


Edited on Apr 02, 2013 at 19:29 by metaphasebrothel



Akyde said  
Installing fonts on a machine outside of C://?

I like to work sometimes at my school and I need to use some fonts that aren't on the machines here. Unfortunately the C:// has restricted access and I am unable to install any new fonts on there without admin permission.
Is there any way to use some other drive to read fonts?

You could embed the font in an MS Word document on a computer that doesn't have installation restrictions, attach the document to an e-mail addressed to yourself, then open the e-mail and download the attachment at the school. This assumes that the font(s) you want to use allow embedding. You can only embed one font per document.

I wrote a tutorial on embedding in post #7 of this thread: http://www.dafont.com/forum/read/78124/why-won-t-this-font-work-when-i-try-to-make-it-bold


Mar 19, 2013 at 16:45  [reply]  Vertical Font with a swash

You could use the font in MS Word with the Orientation changed from Portrait to Landscape.


Feb 28, 2013 at 02:01  [reply]  question about personal use

dangertaylor, if I understand you correctly, You would use the fonts for school work, work that helps you obtain academic credit, but no financial compensation. The work created for the school project would have no commercial value. If this is the case, that's sort of the textbook definition of personal use. The fact that you are a design student, as opposed to a 7th grader, is irrelevant. I don't know of any font that is free for those under 18 years of age, for example.

Having said that, not all designers would agree. If there are conditions attached to the use of a font, that information SHOULD be included in the header, (the version, designer and copyright information shown at the top of font when opened in preview, below the file size). Frequently the terms of use are in a separate read me or license document included in the .zip file at Dafont.

I say the terms SHOULD be included in the header, even if there is a read me or license file, because there are many, many font download sites to which no one submits fonts, but they add new downloads taken from other sites, often with just the .ttf or .otf file made available for download.

For example, if you Google Candy Inc font, (by Billy argel), you will find dozens of sites hosting this font, but I think Billy only submitted the font to Dafont, Fontspace, and his home page. All, or almost all, of the other sites are using his font on their site without his permission, and perhaps without his knowledge. Many font download .zips, as prepared by the designer, also include artwork or character guides, which are omitted by the fly by night sites that save bandwidth by omitting the non font files.



Hi, Gabriella77, you could send a private message to Lauren Thompson, the designer of Champagne & Limosines: http://www.dafont.com/profile.php?user=195029. She visits dafont often, and posts in the forums using the nickname PseudoNympho. If you have purchased a commercial license to use Champagne & Limosines, she would probably be able to help you with the problem you're experiencing. If you haven't purchased a license, you should probably have done that first, before providing a link to where you're using it commercially.


Feb 27, 2013 at 14:54  [reply]  Architectural Blueprint Fonts

Manfred Klein made a number of fonts with 'grid lines'. You can scroll through the one that are on dafont: http://www.dafont.com/manfred-klein.d302?page=1 or look further through his Fonteria at TypOasis: http://www.moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/klein/index.htm. The site link on his dafont page is to his last batch of fonts prior to his retirement. I don't think there are any 'grid' fonts on that page.

Manfred retired from type design in 2008, and no longer has any presence on the Internet, so there is absolutely no chance that he will personally respond to any requests. I believe that all of his fonts in circulation are free for personal use/ donationware, meaning that a donation to charity is requested, but not required, if used commercially. He designed thousands of fonts, so I can't point you toward any specific ones by name.

I think you would like something like this:



but I think those exist only as commercial vectors.

~bobistheowl


Feb 23, 2013 at 14:45  [reply]  Spam font comments

We're on it.


Feb 22, 2013 at 02:40  [reply]  Favorite Fonts!

Hi, MusicGirl7, and welcome to the Dafont forums.

Here are a few of my favorites here:

Lost World: http://www.dafont.com/lost-world.font

Mysterious Voyage: http://www.dafont.com/mysterious-voyage.font

Powerview: http://www.dafont.com/powerview.font

Amazigh Motifs: http://www.dafont.com/amazigh-motifs.font

Dingleberries: http://www.dafont.com/dingleberries.font

Lost Saloon: http://www.dafont.com/lost-saloon.font

Unca Pale: http://www.dafont.com/unca-pale-1.font

VTC Nue Tattoo Script: http://www.dafont.com/vtc-nuetattoo-script.font

Jellyka Delicious Cake: http://www.dafont.com/jellyka-delicious-cake.font

BeautyMarks: http://www.dafont.com/beautymarks.font


Edited on Feb 22, 2013 at 02:42 by metaphasebrothel



Wow, I think I could see myself spending a year doing a font of one of those alphabets, but it would look awesome, even at four points. The only comment I'd get is some guy bitching because there's no Euro symbol...


Edited on Feb 22, 2013 at 02:22 by metaphasebrothel


Feb 22, 2013 at 02:14  [reply]  Single Line Font


Well, excuuuuuse me, Mr Nine Million downloads. You can't blame a guy for trying to shill his 2 downloads-a-day technically precise ugly font.



How come the text display for all the Myfonts links is FineAss Girls? I'm pointing the finger at claudeserieux.


Feb 21, 2013 at 23:57  [reply]  Single Line Font

Very close to a 'single line' font:



FixCystNeon at 9 points.



It looks like the text is in Italics, and the slant is created in a graphics program that can skew the baseline. You won't find many, (if any), fonts that slope up like that on their own. That's usually a sign of custom lettering.


Feb 21, 2013 at 03:56  [reply]  Marcelle Font Questions

1) Instructions are in the Tutorial.jpg image file, included with the font.

2) Browse the Fancy -> Old School Theme: http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=104.



Download and install Winrar: http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm, and I'll bet you won't have those problems.


Feb 17, 2013 at 15:41  [reply]  Can't print fonts?

holly0001, the problem you are experiencing is likely related to the embedding settings in the font(s). We need to know which font(s) is/are causing the problem(s) for someone to be able to help you with a solution. Otherwise you will just get more sarcasm from the chuckleheads.


Feb 17, 2013 at 15:34  [reply]  The Bizness of free fonts

If someone downloads a free/ free for personal use/ donationware font, it means that the font is more valuable to them than the time spent to complete the download, the bandwidth needed to transfer the file, and the disk space it occupies. Many downloads are never extracted from their .zip files. Just about everybody has downloaded multiple copies of many fonts, without realizing they already have them.

If I'm walking down the street and someone offers me a free lollypop, I will accept it, but I won't make a donation to the Hare Krishnas for doing so. Just because someone downloads a font, doesn't mean they will ever actually install it, or use it if it is installed. Many people just collect fonts, like other people collect coins, or stamps, or figurines of animals.

I have declined a few requests for financial compensation for the commercial use of my free fonts. Most notably, film director Tyler Perry's representatives asked my permission to use one of my dingbat glyphs for a poster used in the background/ set dressing for a scene in his film For Colored Girls:



If a font is free, it's free for everybody, even those who can easily afford a licensing fee. Israeli Trance music DJ Liam Shachar also used a glyph from BeautyMarks in his logo:



, with my blessing. It was nice of him to e-mail a .pdf of the font in use. That's the only kind of compensation I'm looking for.

I agree with Daniel Gauthier of Gaut Fonts, who quoted Wayne Burris on his page at TypOasis: "If you want to give back to the Design community … design a font.”



johninlongmont said  
koeiekat said  
Because you do not play by the rules. Ever gave it any consideration why copy is spelled differently from install?
So you know better. You don't give about how things should be done. You know better. You do things your way. According to you 1 + 1 = 9703526823097. Well if you want that, OK. But don't expect things to work.
So go to the nearby supermarket, buy some ears, plug'm in and start listening.

Very dangerous though. Y might learn something. And you wouldn't want that to happen, would you?

thank you, mr. genius....here's what the site instructions say for XP



"Windows XP: Put the font files into C:\Windows\Fonts"

it doesn't say "install" or "copy"...it says "put"

You have to Paste the .ttf into C:\Windows\Fonts to install it.


Edited on Feb 17, 2013 at 01:05 by metaphasebrothel


Feb 17, 2013 at 01:01  [reply]  The Bizness of free fonts

The ratio of downloads to posted comments is about 80,000 to one. The ratio of downloads to donations would probably be similar. One in a hundred downloaders donating is highly optimistic.



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