Sweet, Lovely Fonts
I’m a freak for good fonts. I love a sweet typeface. However, there’s little I loathe more than redundancy with fonts (e.g. Times New Roman *blech!* and Zapfino). Recently I discovered a couple of fabulous sites that boast either great advice or great freebies:
exljbris has high-quality fonts for free. You gotta get your hands on Delicious at least.
Cameron Moll’s blog post on good fonts has some excellent referrals from other designers that I found helpful.
Let me make a plug for Serlio. You may have noticed that lovely Trajan Pro is on the rise. If we’re not careful, it may become like Zapfino or Times New Roman: fonts that everyone uses for almost everything. Now, Trajan is much too slick to become too ugly on the eye, if it becomes redundant. But certainly the trendy-ness can render it not unique. Serlio has become, for me, a great alternative when looking for the Trajan look and feel without using Trajan itself.
