This might be easier to identify with the colours inverted on the graphic

deds, no decision has been made yet as to whether this qualifies as an identification for the Leaderboard. This post keeps the thread active for future consideration.

Christmas fonts at dafont:
http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=804

Christmas fonts with accented characters:

Santa's Sleigh, Christmas Card

Elsewhere:

Plymouth Rock 'Snow Dusted' http://www.fontspace.com/hypotypo/plymouth-rock-snow-dusted

Lombard Plattfuss http://www.fontspace.com/manfred-klein/lombardplattfuss

Humbug http://www.fontspace.com/blahfonts/humbug

It looks like there isn't much to chose from that have accented characters.

I'm really bad at identifying fonts. The only reason I have 1 ID is because I referred the designer to Luc Devroye for font hosting. All of the ones I recognize have already been identified by other people. Maybe I could identify some Scriptoriums, but only the obvious ones.

My cat can identify Cooper Black. Different weights count as different fonts for the Leaderboard. Impact has only one weight, so it doesn't matter if it's bold or italic.

About half of the new threads in the Font Identification forum have begun in the past month, and the other half covered the 5½ months since the new forum opened in March.

tophy52, your profile total is based on, (green), confirmed identifications. The Leaderboard omits duplicate identifications, and instances where the original poster in the thread subsequently identified their own font. I also adjust upward, when the original poster acknowledges the identification, but neglects to click the 'Yes' button for 'Do you agree?', and sundry other instances, such as when you identified Dieter Steffmann's Herkules font by name, and I provided the link on TypOasis, (see Week two update).

Certain fonts like Cooper Black, Impact, Brush Script, etc. have appeared in the Font Identification forum multiple times, but only the initial identification counts towards the Leaderboard. All accounting adjustments are noted at the beginning of each update. I'm being very impartial. My profile shows four IDs, but on the Leaderboard, I have only one.

~bito

How about Clubland?

http://www.dafont.com/clubland.font?text=UKISS

(And it's free).

Week Five update: (As at October 6, 2010 14:56)

The following identifications were disqualified, because they had been previously identified:

deds: Brush Script
daaams: P22 Da Vinci, Candice, Arial. Arial Bold
Rodolphe: Inked God, Waltograph, Cooper Black
vinz: Impact
tophy52: Trajan


The following additional adjustments were made:

daaams awarded 1 point for Futura Extra Bold from this thread:
http://www.dafont.com/forum/read/1476/what-is-this-font

koeiekat awarded 1 point for Rondo in this thread:
http://www.dafont.com/forum/read/1514/what-s-name-of-this-font-please

vinz awarded 1 point for Fette Fraktur in this thread:
http://www.dafont.com/forum/read/1548/thunder-trucks-font-any-ideas-of-it-available-online-as-a-font


Current Standings, this week's identifications in (parentheses):

Leaderboard: LW: Last Week TW: This Week

tophy52 (LW #1 TW #1) 104 IDs (5 this week)

Klingon, Script-S800, Pergamon, Mia's Scribbling, Tango, hullunkruunu, punksnotdead, Officer X, Glowworm, Engravers Gothic Bold, Wichita Black, Handel Gothic, African, Philly Sans, Heartbreaker, Major Productions NF, Commercial Script, Popstars, Saginaw, Calligrapher, Deutsch Gothic, Vampire Regular, Happy Killer, Hattenschweiler, Swiss911xcn, Blackout, 01digitall, Caxton Bold,Asrafel, N Gage, Trajan, Angelina, Saved by Zero, Prokofiev, Magnum, Bitsumishi, Duval, Blade 2, Ballantines, Libby Script, Space Age, Dare Devil, Half project logo, Creampuff, Feast of Flesh BB, BD Extrawurst, Earth, Strenuous, Grilled Cheese Cond, Soda Script Bold, Jungle Life, Grobold, Impact, Bonzai, Papyrus, Research Remix, Regular Normal, Symbol ITC, Stiff Neck, Nightmare Before Christmas, Pristina, Kaufmann Bold, FF Dax medium, Arsenale White, Lydian, 101! Star Lit, Desigers, Vivaldi, Inkburrow, BD Cartoon Shout, Handwritten Crystal, Allianz Sans, Tiranti Solid, EcuyerDax, TF Arrow Book, City Pro Medium, Frutiger 45 Light, VF Sans Condensed, Blur, Sexy Rexy, Helvetica, Compacta SB Regular, Victorian Inline Shaded, Edwardian Script, Fiolex Girls, Lucida Calligraphy, Percolator, Kismet Regular, Dali Font, Pointy, Morpheus, Herkules, Futura Heavy, Sneaker Script, Freestyle, Judas Caps, Showcard Gothic, Battlefield, Stamp Act, (Omnibus, SG Garamond, Copperplate Gothic, Myriad Bold, Hessian)

koeiekat (LW #2 TW #2) 90 IDs (3 this week)

Brush Script, Mahogany Script, P22 Cezanne, Loki Cola, Poor Richard, PT Express, Mordred Demi Bold, AL Sandra, Nadianne, LD Adornment, Cataclysmic, Wolven Script, Bickley Script, Myriad Semibold, Scrawl Light, Caxton, Dark Crystal Script, Ondine, Pea Weenie, Mead Bold, Times New Roman, Bambino, Year2000Boogie, Arrière Garde, Sudestada, BD Bardust, Ginga, Giddyup, Palatino Medium, aaaiight!, Gartentika, Vag Rounded, Mathmos Original Italic, SG Brush Script SB Regular, Lithos, Bradley Hand, Henry Morgan Hand, Curly Coryphaeus, Bounce Script, LHF Billhead 1910, crazycrazy, Nomarch, Dispose Light, LHF Village, advent, Myriad Pro Condensed, Bickham Script, teen, Alexis, DigitalX, Simple Regular, Tiffany Heavy, LHF Sarah Script, Jokerman, Windsong, Mouth, Octavian, Florencesans, Glass Houses, Cyclo, Magistral Black, Circle, La Carte, Buttermilk, Caflisch Script Bold, Coiled Uncial, Authentic Ink Normal, Fenway Park, BodegaSans-BlackOldstyle, Kingthings Typewriter, Burst My Bubble, Crop Types, Garage Shock, Last Ninja, Stop, Plaza, Crackhouse, FG Alison, Pea Carrie Script, BN Stile Project, Great Circus Clean Bold, Pea Missy Cursive, Serif Gothic Black, Ultras Liberi, Party, Diode, Westway Westbound, (Armor Piercing, Affair, Rondo)

Rodolphe (LW #3 TW #3) 78 IDs (11 this week)

Umbra, Raphael, Dark Crystal, Troglodyte Pop, Pricedown, TF Avian, Mondo Redondo, Y2K Neophyte, Boo Boo Kitty, Çarsi, Arnold Böcklin, SF Automaton, Cooper Black, Katzcatz KG, Action Jackson, Bergell, Frakturika, El&Font Bubble, The King and Queen, The Poison, Bank Gothic, 4Yeo Out, Porky's, The Last Font I'm Wasting On You, Osaka Sans Serif, Depraved, Stencil, 3 the Hard Way Rmx, Astronaut, VTKS Revolt, Younger Than Me, Planet Benson, Chopin Script, Sketch Block, Clementine Sketch, Freebooter Script, Lemiesz, A Charming Font (ex), Nemo, Airmole shaded, Ethnocentric, King Cool KC, Comic Sans, MS Alba, Neon, Jump Start, Revue, Kaileen, DreamScar, Anagram, Little Rickey NF, Dirtybag, Blackhawk, SkaterDudes, Rustler, Harabara, Copper Penny DTP, Bad Mofo, Mandingo, Good Girl, Nada, Tourist Trap, Fabianestem, Inked God, Aerojones NF, Pop Magic, Mad Science, (Clubland, Neuropolitical, Fabulous 50's, Souper 3, Amazone, Adine Kirnberg Script, Violation, Dream Orphans Bold, akaPotsley, Low Down Cut, Mallory Maloney's Handwriting)

vinz (LW #4 TW #4) 37 IDs (3 this week)

Hotel Coral Essex, Davida, Mistral, Halter, Myriad, Futura Black, Choc, Carpenter, Myriad Pro Italic, Arial, Xirod, Fontesque, Helvetica Black, Pis LIETZ Lindham, FF Dax, Passions Conflict, Waltograph, Candice, ITC Avant Garde Gothic Bold, Supernatural Knight, Neuzeit Grotesk Black, Arial Black, Futura Condensed Extra Bold, Futura Condensed Extra Bold Oblique, Wichita Bold, Monotype Corsiva, Brock Script, A La Nage, Bleeding Cowboys, Moan Hand, Aristotle punk, ITC Machine, Bagpack, Friz Quadrata, (Nioubes, Handy, Fette Fraktur)

daaams (LW #5 TW #5) 20 IDs (3 this week)

Billie Barred, Scriptina, Seven Swordsmen, American Typewriter Bold, Forte Regular, Hulkbusters, Zapfino, Balloon, Atari Kids, Madredeus, Mrs Eaves Small Caps, Asenine, Arial Bold, Allstar, LPF par Eric de Berranfer, Dirt2 Soulstalker, Porcelain, (Bernard MT Condensed Regular, Helvetica Bold, Futura Extra Bold)

deds (LW #6 TW #6) 19 IDs (6 this week)

Secession-Afisha, Normal, P22 Da Vinci, FF Dax Bold, BN Police Regular, Legrand, HYPD BD Bardust Remix, Flower 3, N-Gage, Andes, Bombardier, Cartoon, Triplex Sans ExtraBold, Futura ND Black, (Novarese Std Bold, Rough Draft, Hemi Head 426, Aachen Bold, Neuropol X, Rockwell MT)

claudeserieux (LW #7 TW #7) 7 IDs (1 this week)

Burgues Script, Unity, Adios Script, Big Noodle Titling, Neo Sans Black, AT Benguiat Friskysee, (Euclid)

WhatFontis (LW-- TW #8) 5 IDs (5 this week)

(Future Regular, SF Grunge Sans, Baruta Black, Beware, Roundhand Black BT)

Heron2001 (LW#8T TW #9T) 4 IDs

Benguiat Bold Italic, Bodega Sans Medium, Plaza, ITC Avant Garde Book

danihonorato (LW #8T TW #9T) 4 IDs

Dr Carbfred, Spring, Zebra, Honey Script

Amazingmax (LW #10T TW #11T) 2 IDs

Alice in Wonderland, Whoop Ass

JasonArthur (LW #10T TW #11T) 2 IDs

Storm Trooper, Fertigo Pro Regular

Farfadam (LW #10T TW #11T) 2 IDs

Helvetica Neue Lt Std 23 Ultra Light Extended, Geist Bold

snilow (LW#10T TW #11T) 2 IDs

Swiss 721 Extended, Optima

Pathriick2801 (LW10T TW #11T) 2 IDs

Kravitz, Pirmokas

neuroman (LW-- TW #11T) 2 IDs (2 this week)

(Metro DF, Amputa Bangiz)

dasklem (LW #15T TW #17T) 1 ID

Herencia

Sethan (LW #15T TW #17T) 1 ID

University Roman

Schwalbenkoenig (LW #15T TW #17T) 1 ID

Fontovision

Kodoichi (LW #15T TW #17T) 1 ID

Rosewood Std

Andrew2 (LW #15T TW #17T) 1 ID

Alpaca 54

chris19 (LW #15T TW #17T) 1 ID

Volvo

bobistheowl (LW #15T TW #17T) 1 ID

Lobster

adfvalentine (LW #15T TW #17T) 1 ID

Evanescent

brnwrck (LW #15T TW #17T) 1 ID

Viper Black

imaginaryfriend (LW #15T TW #17T) 1 ID

Kredit

KrAsH (LW #15T TW #17T) 1 ID

Black Jack

Nico78160 (LW#15T TW #17T) 1 ID

Traveling Typewriter

rsponsel (LW #15T TW #17T) 1 ID

Arnprior

little-j (LW 15T TW #17T) 1 ID

Jellyka - Nathaniel, a Mystery

querubin (LW #15T TW #17T) 1 ID

FF Typeface 6

linki2675 (LW #15T TW #17T) 1 ID

Castellar

kayla_2026 (LW #15T TW #17T) 1 ID

Calibri Bold

Menhir (LW #15T TW #17T) 1 ID

Akzidenz-Grotesk Bold

Dyphilla (LW15T TW #17T) 1 ID

Kipp No 1

elu (LW15T TW #17T) 1 ID

AKApplique White

ThePG (LW-- TW #17T) 1 ID (1 this week)

(Parchment)

Lively (LW-- TW #17T) 1 ID (1 this week)

(Planet Kosmos)

~bito

I think "Coloniacs" are also known as "Friends of Enemas".

You don't install the font in a word processing app. You install it in your folder for installed fonts, and select it in the wp app.

OpenOffice.org is both a website, and a suite of open source, free alternatives to the Microsoft Office suite. It's not specific to Linux. Writer is the app similar to MS Word.

All of Dieter Steffman's fonts are free.

The upper and lower case E in Market Deco are different, on purpose, Robbinski12. It gives you a choice between two versions. Why on earth would you print business cards without doing a test printing on paper first? Don't blame the font designer for your oversight. it's quite clear in the character map: http://www.dafont.com/market-deco.font that the two E's are different.

21326, if you scroll down the page in Font Discussions forum, you will see a thread called "Looking at each others fonts". The discussions from other people who asked for feedback in the forums about their fonts is in that thread. If this thread disappears, it means that it was moved/merged into that thread, because of redundancy. When you do your next font, you should use that thread for commentary requests.

Nice page on Luc Devroye's site, by the way.

~bito

Don't fuck with a forum moderator, systerin.

Following up after less than ten hours is annoying, systerin.

mirandarodriguez, one of my favorites is PetraScript, also known as PetrasScript, distributed, but not designed, by Elsner + Flake:

http://new.myfonts.com/search/petras+script/fonts/

Further to what koeiekat said in the above post, this applies to MS Word 2000 and MS Word 2003. I think this feature may have been removed from MS Word 2007 and MS Word 2010, but I'm not sure. I'm happy with the 2000 version, and have no plans to upgrade.

Anyway, if you want to use a font in an electronic document, (ie: not printed), so that other people can see the font in the document, (without having to first install the font), the font can be embedded. Note that not all fonts can be embedded. Embedding is a setting determined by the font designer. The only ways to tell if the font can be embedded is to open it with a font editor such as FontLab Studio5 or FontCreator, and check the settings, (or have someone do that for you), or to have the document viewed on a computer on which the font has not been installed, to see whether the embedding was successful.

To embed fonts in MS Word 2000/2003:

1) Install the font.

2) Type your document, with that font enabled, (only one font can be embedded within a document).

3) In Tools in the Menu Bar, Select Options...

4) In the Options dialog box, select the Save tab.

5) Check both boxes for 'Embed True Type fonts' and 'Embed characters in use only'. I'm not sure if Open Type fonts can be embedded.

6) Click the OK button to confirm the change, and close the Options dialog box.

7) Save the document.

Note: You shouldn't uninstall a font if you have embedded it in a document, unless you delete the document first. I uninstalled a fonr used in an embedded doc once, and it corrupted the document, and all copies of the font that I had on my computer, including ones in unopened .zips. I had to delete all copies of the font from my computer, and the document with embedding, and download a new copy of the font. Other people may not experience this same problem, but be warned that that CAN happen.

If you use a font in an electronic document, and don't embed it, (or if it's a font that doesn't allow embedding), someone else who views the document, if they do not have the font installed, will see the text in the default font for their version of MS Word, (ie: Times New Roman for Word 2000/2003; Calabri for Word 2007/2010).

These instructions are specific to MS Word 2000/2003. I can't give you embedding instructions or tips for any other apps.

I hope this information was useful to you, and others.

~bito

Take this simple test in Flash, to find out which typeface is most like you.

I'm Corbusier Stencil

http://pentagram.com/what-type-are-you/

systerin, if you write with a pen on paper, letters appear, but no font is used. That's what hand drawn means. Someone wrote the letters of "Rousseau", either on paper, on with a graphics program on a computer. They didn't do an entire alphabet, only the letters to write "Rousseau". Each letter was created separately. We know that because the letters "u" and "s" appear twice, and they are different each time. The fact that the letters are not on the same baseline, (ie: both letter "s" are placed higher than the other letters), is a good indication that this is not a font.

That's what she said.