Design your way

Monday, September 30, 2013

Having a large arsenal of typefaces is important if you are a versatile designer who works on various types of design projects and wants each one of them to have an unique style.

However, picking the right fonts that you will need at a certain time can be quite difficult. If your collection is not curated carefully, you might end up having a lot of unnecessary fonts. Of course, there are a few typefaces that can go with almost every design, but there are also other which could be used for particular projects.

A good advice would be to have installed a basic collection of fonts which can be used on a multitude of projects and keep the special fonts on shortlists rather then installing them all. I used to have 2000 fonts at one point when I was a rookie designer and it was the worst thing possible. I had to browse through the whole collection every time I wanted to search for a font that would apply to my client’s requests. Needless to say, I never browsed more than a hundred of them until I lost my patience.

Also, it is important to classify your fonts properly so it will be easier for you to get what you want, when you want it. Finding a good font after you’ve sent the files to your client might be a little bit late.

Those were my 2 cents on font picking and organizing. What you are interested in is represented by the following free fonts, which I hope will be useful to you.