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A new free font every month

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SoftMaker is recognized as a creator of high-quality fonts and has offered them to designers,
printers and advertising agencies worldwide for more than 20 years.

Every month you’ll find a different font here from our huge
selection totally free to download – no strings attached.
Link: https://www.freefont.de/index_en.htm

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Totally off-topic, but your post immediately reminded me of this tune...


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Midas wrote: Mon Aug 05, 2024 2:58 pm Totally off-topic, but your post immediately reminded me of this tune...
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Incidentally, don't know if this one has been featured but it's quite a nice monospaced font, IMHO:
Server Mono is a typeface inspired by typewriters, Apple's San Francisco Mono, ASCII art, command-line interfaces, and programming tools. Server Mono continues the long tradition of monospace fonts, renowned for their versatility in command-line interfaces due to their clear readability and uniform character width.

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#5 Post by webfork »

Very nice. Noto Sans is my go-to font for almost everything but I've been kind of meh on Noto Mono. Good to know.

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#6 Post by Midas »

Great. Although I'm more of a Serif type ;) here's two other similar free fonts I fancied:
Routed Gothic Font: A clean implementation of a common lettering style found on technical drawings, engraved office signs, computer and typewriter keyboards, and some comic books and avionics from the mid-20th century.

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National Park Typeface: Capturing the charm of the router-carved type ubiquitous in America’s national parks, without sacrificing legibility or versatility

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New month, BTW, but FreeFont.de hasn't changed yet... :(

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#7 Post by freakazoid »

New fonts are great, but adding new fonts can increase your font fingerprint making you more unique and identifiable online.
is it stealth? ;)

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freakazoid wrote: Adding new fonts can increase your font fingerprint making you more unique and identifiable online.
100% true. I rarely install them system wide though, I just collect them and keep them for whenever needed. Some programs even allow use without installation, too. :|

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Midas wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2024 8:07 am Some programs even allow use without installation, too. :|
Would be cool to see a list of apps that uses an embedded font system!
is it stealth? ;)

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#10 Post by godsepallavi »

I like to use Sans Serif font. I have also downloaded many fonts but use them when I require.

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This month free font: Caslon Antique

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OpenType format: https://www.freefont.de/downloads/caslo ... ro_otf.zip

TrueType format: https://www.freefont.de/downloads/caslo ... ro_ttf.zip

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#12 Post by Midas »

Thanks Ennovy. 8)

The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack has been in my posting queue for a bit, so here goes...
The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack started out with the idea of paying tribute to ancient PCs and their bitmapped, pre-GUI typography (if you can call it that). It was inspired by similar efforts that cover other vintage machines: classic system fonts from the Amiga, C64, Apple II, Mac, ZX Spectrum, Atari 8-bit/ST etc. are all celebrated. On the other hand, the IBM PC and its clones seem to get little love... except for that one VGA text mode font (which has been remade numerous times, to varying degrees of success). This collection is here to remedy that, and to bring you pixel-perfect remakes of various type styles from text-mode era PCs -- in modern, multi-platform, Unicode-compatible TrueType form (plus straight bitmap versions).
Windows Console / Command Prompt / Terminal
At least in Windows 7 and earlier, only bitmap (raster) fonts can be freely selected for use in the Windows console. TrueType fonts require a registry edit -– to add them to the list, you'll have to start regedit.exe and open this key:
* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Console\ TrueTypeFont
You'll probably see two fonts defined (Lucida Console and Consolas), as "0" and "00" respectively. To enable more TrueType fonts, add a new String Value with one more 0 in its name (the first one you add will be 000, then 0000 and so on). In the Value field simply enter the font's name, e.g. MxPlus IBM VGA 9x16. Hit OK and exit the editor. The font will now be available in the Properties dialog for console windows.

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