koeiekat, I didn't see anywhere on the tatipixel site where fonts are being sold. All of the fonts listed in Appaloosa's post are either free, free for personal use, or shareware. The use of those hallowe'en fonts on the page backgrounds of the third link would, in my opinion, fall under the personal use provision. I didn't see anything in the articles for sale that used any of those referenced fonts. I think this is just a disguised spamming to get people to visit the tatipixel site, and Appaloosa is the shill.

mamlol, there are a number of threads in the dafontforums relating to questions from people who want to learn how to make fonts. I recommend that you look at the names of the threads in the 'Technical questions', 'Font discussion', and 'Other' forums. You really should have done that first, before starting a new thread with the same question that others have already asked. You'll probably find that most, if not all, of your basic questions have already been answered.

You should concentrate on threads that are related to making fonts, and threads dealing with font creation software. For example, in 'Font discussions', You should read the threads described as "Which program best for making a font?", "Creating a font?", and "How do you make fonts?". You can find, (yourself), other threads about first time font making in 'Technical Questions' and "other'. If you have questions NOT already answered in those other threads, that would be the time to ask for SPECIFIC instructions, and the proper place to do that would be in the 'Technical Qustions' forum.

~bobistheowl

This may not be an exact match, but you could try Lobster by Pablo Impallari:

http://luc.devroye.org/impallari.html

This is a great free Open Type font. Pablo's font is hosted by Luc Devroye on his On Snot and Fonts pages, (see the link at the bottom of each page on dafont).

Pablo's homepage has a detailed timeline of the steps he took to make this font:

http://www.impallari.com/lobster/

Jey, on your 'My account' link, where you can check the daily and cumulative download totals, there's also a link next to each font, if it has one or more comments. If you click the comments links, they will bring you directly to the page with the comments for those fonts.

Judging by the quality and popularity of your work, I'm sure you have many more comments than most designers. When it comes to download numbers, I think you and Billy A. are in one class, and the rest of us are a few laps back. Keep up the good work!

~bito

Oops, Gyom Séguin/Last Soundtrack is right up there, as well.

A piece of cheese, two wooden shoes, and a tulip to the kat.

FullerFonts, you don't 'post' fonts on dafont. You submit them, and the webmaster decides if they will be made available on the site. Typically, new batches of fonts are posted every five weeks or so, and those designers who have one or more of their fonts posted in a new batch will receive an e-mail confirming their inclusion, usually on the same day that the new fonts are posted.

~bito

Sorry, but (You Can't Get No) "Satisfaction", to paraphrase Mick Jagger!

Nice work, tophy52 and koeiekat. You did a lot with a little.

tophy52, she only wants to know the font for the large word "Mine". The 'Taylor Swift' font is, I believe, Satisfaction by Andrew Leman.


I don't think she cares about the small lettering.

You could try this page:
http://www.panafril10n.org/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/Soninke

Or some of the other links on this Metacrawler results page for "Mali font"

http://www.metacrawler.com/metacrawler/ws/results/Web/mali%20font/1/417/TopNavigation/Relevance/iq=true/zoom=off/_iceUrlFlag=7?_IceUrl=true


You could also send an e-mail to Luc Devroye at his gmail address, (see the On snot and fonts link at the bottom of each page on dafont). Luc's contact information is listed at the bottom of the page accessed by the dafont link).

Luc is the Internet's foremost authority on fonts and typography. He would be in a position to let you know if there is a Mali SIL Doulos font, and if so, he may send you a copy, if you tell him why you need it, and ask politely. I did a quick search through the African themed fonts section of Luc's site, but I didn't find it. If it's not a free font, however, he definitely won't send you a copy. He isn't Santa Claus, so he wouldn't oblige all requests for fonts, but he is an Academic, (Professor of Computer Sciences), so he may help out with an academically themed font.

Thanks, onemiguel03. Sure, upload some new fonts, I'll download them. BTW, I prefer TicTacToe over One Miguel Shaded, even though it has fewer downloads. We'll be expecting your technical skills to have improved for the next batch.

~bito

I'm with koeiekat in endorsing the the trial version of FontCreator. A 30 day, fully functional app for free is a lot more than FontLab offers. If I recall correctly, the trail versions of the Fontlab programs distort every other glyph when you generate a font. The full version is also significantly less expensive to buy than any of the FontLab apps. I don't use it myself, but I have a copy, and it should be enough to make amateur and semi professional fonts, for most people.

Don't tease us, son.

This is the best link I could find for you:

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=EncCnvtrs


If it's not on that page, there may be a link on that page to where you might find it. If you do find it, however, my guess is that it will be in Tex format, of which I know nothing.

If it's any consolation, I don't think any of the other teams in the Treasure Hunt will get that one, either. Try to find the aglet, the Batman Pez dispenser, and the pen with orange coloured ink instead.

André, send a private message to Rodolphe, the webmaster, and he will remove it for you. To find a link for a Rodolphe posting, look through the Font Identification forum a bit, and he's easily found.

~bito

melanie, If you are using Windows, here's another option, if you want to put your preview text in an image file, (all steps included):

1) Download the font here, (in .zip file format), by clicking the download link, and chosing the save file option, (not open!).

2) Depending on the Internet browser you are using, the next step can be different. If you are using Internet Explorer, the Save As dialog box will appear. In the Save As dialog box, you specify the folder where you want to save the downloaded .zip file. If you are using Firefox, by default it will save the .zip in the location: My Documents, Downloads subfolder. If you are using a different browser, and don't know how to download, you'll have to tell us the name of the browser for this step, and someone else will have to let you know how to save a file.

3) Open the zip file. If you don't know how to do that, Go to [url]http://www.rarlab.com
/download.htm[/url] and download the Winrar X86 (32 bit)3.93 setup file. Then open the Winrar setup file, and follow the easy instructions to install it.

4) When Winrar is installed, double click the .zip file downloaded here, and select Extract from the options at the top. By default, Winrar will create a folder in the same location as the .zip, unless you specify a different place for the extracted files. When you extract files from the .zip, you are copying the files contained in a compressed form within the .zip file, and expanding them to their full size. After extracting, you will have both the .zip file, as downloaded, and a folder with the files that are in the .zip. At this point, you don't need the .zip file anymore, so you can recycle it.

5) Inside the folder created during extraction, you should find one or more font files, (.ttf or .otf file type), and often a read me or license document, and sometimes some supplemental files. Copy the .ttf or .otf file(s), and paste them to this location:

My Computer -> Local Disk C: -> Windows -> Fonts, to install it/them.

If you are using Windows Vista, Windows 7, or a Mac computer, the installation instructions may be different. If this is the case, Click the Help link at the top of this page, and, in the FAQ, (Frequently Asked Questions), section, select the link which matches with your computer or operating system, for alternative installation instructions.

6) When the font is installed, (and if you have Microsoft Word), open MS Word, and select the font you have installed, and a font size about 1.33 times as large as the text you want to use in you graphic.

7) Type your text, and chose Edit -> Select All from the menu bar at the top of the Window, (assuming that you are not using MS Word 2007, which has no Menu Bar, in which case you can probably select all of the text with right click -> Select All, or by Holding down the Ctrl key, and touching the A key, before releasing both keys).

8) Open MS Paint, located in Start Menu -> Programs -> Accessories. If the blank Paint document is not large enough to contain your text, chose Image from the Menu Bar -> Attributes, and increase the width or height of your blank paint document accordingly. Note that you can set the attributes in inches, centimeters or pixels. For MS Paint, there are 96 pixels in one inch of length.

9) Select Edit from the MS Paint menu bar, then select Paste. Note that the pasted text will be about 75% as large as the text in you MS Word document, which is why you used a font size 1.33 times too big to start with.

10) From file in the MS Paint Menu Bar, select save. You will see the Save As dialog box for the second time, (see 2) above), if you are using Internet Explorer as your browser. This time, you will want to specify the folder, [Save In:], File name, (File Name), and Type of image file, [Save as type:], for your text to appear in an image file. 24 bit bitmap or PNG would be good choices for the completed graphic. The image that I used for my FixCystNeon font, http://www.dafont.com/fixcystneon.font, was created this way, using MS Word 2000 and MS Paint, although I had to do some post production work to regulate the lengths of the lines.


I'm really hoping that you already knew at least some of this, but keep in mind that these instructions are also to help the other technophobes, present and future, to educate themselves.

~bito

This is a custom drawn logo, not a font. I'm hopeful that someone can suggest something similar for you. Note the differences between the two EE's, when placed side by side:

You certainly can create a font using your own set of symbols. That's pretty much what a dingbat font is. When making a font, the designer decides which symbol to put in the A position, which to put in the 3 position, etc, and which positions to not include in the font.

You might find this useful:

http://rapidshare.com/files/413591301/XXDWXX.rar

This is an archive of freeware fonts from Michael Lee, Josh Dixon, et al from Omega Design. They specialize in creating fonts of alien languages from science fiction movies and television shows. What they did and how they did it may be helpful to you.

~bito

Also, if you search for Balloon here at dafont, links to all commercial font matches will appear at the top, before the ones on dafont that include Balloon as part of the font name.

Shellyt, your question is confusing. If the client sent you a font, why would you need to download it here, if you already have it?

If your client sent you a picture of the font in use on a T-shirt, it would probably be best if you posed this question in the Font Identification forum, with a picture of the shirt which uses the Balloon font. For instructions on how to add a picture to you post, (if you need them), read this thread:

http://www.dafont.com/forum/read/779/calligraphy-and-fonts-online

If this is the font you mean:

http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/balloon/

it is a commercial font, which you won't find here, but you could buy it at myfonts. It's also possible that there may be a free font that looks similar to this one, but with a different name. The people who post in the Font Identification forum have a high success rate at identifying near and exact matches. If your client wants the commercial font shown at myfonts, you're probably best to buy the font, and include the cost of the purchase in the amount the client is billed.

There may also be more than one font named Balloon. I have one by that name, copyright 1991 by Digital Typeface Corp., and another by H Berthold AG, copyright 1992. myfonts also has versions of Balloon by Elsner & Flake and URW++. They may well have been based on an earlier, nondigital typeface of the same name. As with many of the commercial fonts from the early 1990's and earlier, there are often clones or knockoffs where, essentially, the only thing that changed was the font name and the alleged author. Including a picture with you post will help sort these things out.

~bito