RodS posted at 5:23PM Tue, 14 January 2020 - #4376518

I've had a look around Blambot - actually found a couple free fonts that look decent. A couple friends on another site sent some links as well.. One can never have to many fonts, after all... ?

Oh, believe me, one CAN have too many fonts!

Way back when, I had a student license for the Corel Graphics suite, and it came with a disc of fonts. A full CD worth of nothing but fonts! Fonts as you know are tiny in file size, imagine how many will fit on a CD! I installed . . . every . . . single . . . one . . . along with a couple hundred I'd collected from the net. At which point, loading any software that used fonts, became a gamble as it had to read thru and load a folder of several thousand fonts. Assuming the program made it thru that process, actually finding even a useful font, or that one font, that you really like, but can't quite remember the name of ... becomes a daunting task to say the least.

Eventually I learned to use the nifty "font manager" software that came with the suite, and only kept about a hundred or so fonts around at any given time. I still have a bit of a habit of "collecting" fonts when I run across them, but its balanced out these days with the bad habit of saving them, and never getting around to installing it, now I only really add fonts if its for a specific use, and I try to get rid of the ones I don't use shortly after.

The amount of fussing over the tiniest of differences in fonts for design work, can be mind boggling. Its a rabbit hole for sure, and a very deep one at that, if you're not careful!

These days, on the rare occasion I'd need a font for a design of some sort, that I can't just "free hand" a few letters for, I think, I'd find the native MS font that I like the most, then I'd find a font that looks as much like that as possible, if anybody calls me on it, I can just "ah-hah! but its actually [xxxxx]!" them.

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