References

  • Fonts
  • In typography, an entire collection of characters of particular size and style is called a font. Every font usually includes letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and special symbols, consolidated with the same style or typeface.

  • Free Fonts
  • Free fonts is one of the most popular search requests in the Internet. The applications of free fonts can range from writing a personal newsletter or blog to web site design and wedding invitation.

  • Best Fonts
  • The best font is the one, which is a perfect match for a style, content, and purpose of the particular document. Whether it is a printed book, online blog, or a company's logo, choosing the best fonts ensures the appropriate perception of a text.

  • Top Fonts
  • At Fonts2u, top fonts are those, which receive the highest ratings from the site users and visitors. Eroded, groovy, cartoon, serif, and art – the list of top fonts at Fonts2u includes the very best and the brightest representatives from different font families.

  • Cool Fonts
  • If you are looking for a free cool font, Fonts2u is your one-stop destination. Thousands of really cool fonts are waiting for you here!

  • Beautiful Fonts
  • A beautiful font has always been among the core elements of any web design project. The mission of a new font portal, called Fonts2u, is to make the searching and downloading of free beautiful fonts easier.

  • Nice Fonts
  • Attractive, eye-catching, beautiful, appealing… There are, actually, dozens of words to describe what we usually call a nice font. Indeed, a nice font is not just a set of characters, drawn in some particular style. It is also the way to express and stress the meaning of the words.

  • Freeware fonts
  • Freeware font is usually what the majority of us would search for everyday non-commercial use. The list of freeware fonts applications is endless – starting from the routine documents we have to type on a daily basis, and ending with our unique projects.

  • TrueType fonts
  • TrueType font technology was first introduced to the wide audience of the computer users at the very beginning of the 90th of the previous century. Since then TrueType has become so popular and widely used in everyday life that it even displaces PostScript technology in many areas.

  • OpenType fonts
  • OpenType font format is an extension of the TrueType technology, developed by the mutual efforts of Adobe and Microsoft. OpenType technology for scalable fonts has seen the world in 1996, and now it is widely used on the major operating systems due to its flexibility and cross-platform compatibility.

  • TTF fonts
  • TTF font is an acronym for TrueType font, which became one of the most widely used font formats after its launch on Apple and Microsoft operating systems at the last decade of the 20th century. These companies were the developers of this technology, which actually had many common features with PostScript and Adobe Type 1 fonts.

  • OTF fonts
  • The full name of OTF font is OpenType font, developed by Microsoft and Adobe. It belongs to the scalable computer fonts. OTF format is based on the TrueType technology; however, it possesses several significant differences or even advantages over the mentioned TrueType fonts.

  • PostScript fonts
  • Postscript font owes its existence to the development of the PostScript language by Adobe Systems. Though this technology appeared about 30 years ago, it still remains among the leaders of the printing industry.

  • Unicode fonts
  • Unicode font is a typeface, which includes multiple character sets (symbols, glyphs, digits, letters, characters, etc.) aiming at embracing various scripts and languages from all over the world. Thus, this standard tries to include as many glyphs as possible in order for just a single typeface could be used for the documents containing text in many languages.

  • Microsoft fonts
  • While Windows remains among the leaders of desktop operating systems, Microsoft font remains among the most popular search requests in the Internet. Noted for its perfect on-screen quality and extensive character sets, Microsoft fonts are always in need among the users of Windows-powered computers.

  • Mac fonts
  • Mac or Macintosh is one of the two leading operating systems in the world. However, for many millions of people Mac is, actually, an undeniable leader and the choice number one. Speaking about Mac fonts, we usually mean those fonts, which were primarily designed for the use on Macintosh machines.

  • Macintosh fonts
  • While today there exist many fonts, which can be used on both Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows computers, some fonts still remain purely for Mac computers and cannot be used on other platforms without converting.

  • Italic fonts
  • Italic font is actually not a separate or unique font – it is rather a style of typefaces with characters slightly slanted to the right or left (this style may also be called cursive). It may be opposed to the Roman style with straight, upright font characters, which is more commonly used for texts and stated to be easier to read.

  • Bold fonts
  • Bold font means that the characters of a typeface are displayed darker and thicker in appearance than usually. It is a font weight property, not a type or category of a font. Other font weight variations include light, medium, heavy, and black characters looks.

  • Light fonts
  • The thickness of the characters outlines in relation to their height is called font weight. If the outlines are thin and light, such collection of characters is usually called a light font.

  • Condensed fonts
  • Condensed font is better known in typography as Condensed type. It represents the width of the font characters. In other words, it is a typeface with narrower characters than in the regular standard font. They look slender, elongated, and refined.

  • Expanded fonts
  • Searching for any expanded font, widely represented in various typefaces families, categories, and styles cannot be easier than with Fonts2u.com – home of the most popular and widely used, as well newest and latest digital computer fonts.

  • Accented fonts
  • Accented fonts are used in order to properly display a text in a particular language, the alphabet of which contains accented symbols. The examples of such languages include French, German, Arabic, Hebrew, Scandinavian languages, etc.

  • Basic fonts
  • Though there is no a clear definition for basic fonts in typography, most people associate basic fonts with those, which are most commonly used on their computers, such as Times New Roman or Arial.

  • Serif fonts
  • Over a thousand of serif fonts are currently available at Fonts2u online repository of the free fonts. These classic fonts are in high demand among designers, web site developers, and graphic artists, working on different projects, where high readability of the text is expected.

  • Sans serif fonts
  • In contrast to serif fonts, sans serif fonts are those without the small decorative elements, which are called serifs in typography. If you are looking for a rich collection of sans serif fonts, available for free downloading, please visit Fonts2u, an online font repository.

  • Bitmap fonts
  • Bitmap fonts, along with outline and stroke fonts, relate to the main ways of storing information about the font in a computer file. Each of those methods has its own advantages and disadvantages, for example, bitmap fonts are faster in computer applications, but may look wrong after resizing.

  • Pixelated fonts
  • Browsing multiple font categories of a new online font repository, called Fonts2u, you may notice a group of fonts, called Pixelated fonts, which look really unusual and surprisingly aliasing. Pixelated font collection, presented at Fonts2u, illustrates the alternative trend in fonts design, opposite to common antialiasing techniques and smoothing effects.

  • Dingbats
  • In typography, a dingbat is usually used to define a picture or printer's ornament. Consequently, dingbat font is the font, which has different pictures instead of common letters or symbols in the supported character map.

  • Fancy fonts
  • Multiple and diverse fancy font representatives can now be found all in one place - fonts online resource Font2u. Every visitor will be pleased to see how many of them we can offer, and every font designer will be glad to know that Fonts2u is one more reputable place to show his own font creations.

  • Comic fonts
  • Computer games, children toys, comic books and book covers, posters, cups and plates – this is just a little part of things where comic font can be used for the attraction of our attention. Indeed, the areas of its uses are unlimited!

  • Curly fonts
  • Curly font is characterized with the presence of various crimps, curves, turns and waves in the characters elements. For example, letters' tails (those, which reach beyond the main lines) can be strangely waved and crooked.

  • Digital fonts
  • In general, all the modern fonts, designed for computer applications, are digital. At the same time, the phrase digital fonts is also used to describe a particular style of fonts, featuring distinct electronic or digital traits in the style of the characters design or form.

  • Futuristic fonts
  • We look into the future, we await for it. Always eager to discover what tomorrow is going to bring us, we, in the meantime, try to predict it in various ways and concerning different areas of our life. Futuristic fonts represent the vision of the future trends of the font designing art.

  • Eroded fonts
  • Vivid, peculiar, uncommon, aggressively attractive, breathtaking and dangerously captivating – all this correctly describes eroded fonts; however, this is just a small part of what can be said about it.

  • Distorted fonts
  • If you need to attract attention of the readers before it is attracted by some other text, if your aim is to really catch a reader, then distorted font may be the best option for achieving this goal.

  • Groovy fonts
  • The word groovy in modern lexicology means cool, sweet, excellent. Consequently, a groovy font is one with the peculiar appearance, both refined and unexpected, and sometimes even purely shocking.

  • Military fonts
  • Mostly characterized with bold and solid structure and frequent use of stencils effect, military fonts can be used in multiple applications, from booklets to web site design, where it is necessary to express military atmosphere.

  • Modern fonts
  • The edges of modern font category may look a bit fuzzy and indistinct, since modern fonts may include representatives from other categories, such as eroded, movie, or 3D typefaces. However, modern fonts remain among the favorite options for web design, postcards, brochures, promotional booklets, and corporate logos.

  • Movie fonts
  • Movie fonts are usually produced exclusively for particular films, and they are used as part of marketing in the official titles, trailers, and announcements. Also, there are many free fonts, which are designed to mimic the style of a particular movie font.

  • Old school fonts
  • Old school fonts usually refer to the particular style of typefaces, which were popular in the past. Besides, old school term may be used in place of old style to define the earliest and the most traditional type of serif fonts.

  • Outlined fonts
  • Basically, the term outlined font can be explained in two ways. First, this term can be used to denote a specific format of fonts. Second, outlined font may refer to the particular style or structure of fonts.

  • Retro fonts
  • People have always felt some special respect to the old or old-looking things. Retro fonts are those special typefaces, which absorbed all the best traditions in typography, and have that sweet scent of refinement, exclusivity, and premium quality.

  • Scary fonts
  • Scary fonts are those, commonly used in the titles of horror films or on the posters and invitations for a Halloween party, for example. Alternative music is another field, where one can often find the examples of scary fonts.

  • Techno fonts
  • When developing a layout of some technology-related web site, a properly selected techno font may become the basement for building the overall image of the site with the necessary technological look and feel.

  • Gothic fonts
  • Gothic font collections are available at various resources in the Internet; however, definitely, one of the best selections is represented at Fonts2u. You can receive the evidence of this statement by visiting us and downloading any font you like!

  • Celtic fonts
  • The whole history of ancient Celts is cloaked in the unsolved secrets and unexplained mysteries. If you need to reconstruct the atmosphere of those times with a printed text, you are most likely interested in a Celtic fonts for your project.

  • Medieval fonts
  • Medieval fonts are exhibited at Fonts2u within the subcategory of the same name as a part of the Gothic style computer font family. Alongside with medieval fonts, one can also find Celtic, modern, and initials fonts.

  • Ancient fonts
  • Among thousands of diverse computer fonts, offered at Fonts2u, one can find a nice collection of ancient fonts. These typefaces are available for free download from the site for personal and non-commercial use.

  • Holiday fonts
  • Any holiday has its peculiar symbols, signs, and attributes. They are often treated as the means to deliver some messages to other people, for example, greetings, warmest wishes, cheering up words, and so on. All these messages look more expressive if displayed with holiday fonts.

  • Decorative fonts
  • The characters of any decorative font are always treated by the readers as the zest, which adds not only the special looks, but the special feel to the text as well. Using inclusions of decorative font elements is also a sign of good taste and a sense of beauty.

  • Christmas fonts
  • Christmas font category at the computer typefaces web portal Fonts2u is one of the richest categories offered there: it includes multiple designer fonts dedicated to Christmas. They are all different, but similarly beautiful, interesting, and exciting.

  • Easter fonts
  • Easter fonts may feature letters of alphabet, or it may contain interesting funny pictures of traditional Easter eggs and rabbits, ribbons and baskets, chicken and candles. They all will beautify a text and highlight the special spirit of celebration.

  • Halloween fonts
  • Halloween fonts can often be found on the alternative bands album covers, youth-oriented clothing designs, Halloween symbols, etc. It is a number one choice if it is necessary to make various Halloween projects, for example, postcards, gifts, and their packaging.

  • Valentine fonts
  • If you are, have ever been, or maybe just about to fall in love, Valentine fonts are something you will be greatly interested in! Satisfy your curiosity by visiting Fonts2u.com.

  • Script fonts
  • Any characteristics, any adjective you will use, while describing script fonts, will be true and correct. It is possible to say that these typefaces are comprehensive and universal: they include formal and casual fonts, neat and trash character sets, ascetic and funny typefaces.

  • Brush fonts
  • Brush fonts have been known to the world for more than half a century already. Still, nobody seems to be bored with it. Moreover, people's interest in this typeface obviously grows, taking into account those multiple brush fonts appearing these days.

  • Calligraphy fonts
  • Calligraphy font has a long and rich history of use. It is often chosen for greeting cards and various kinds of invitations, different certificates and diplomas, web sites and blogs, etc. It gives charm and beauty to a text, makes it fresh and elegant, creates a modern and so familiar, as if ancient, looks at the same time.

  • Graffiti fonts
  • Graffiti fonts may be associated with young people only; however, we, at Fonts2u, are positive that these typefaces definitely amaze and fascinate everybody, even though some people refuse to admit it in public.

  • Handwritten fonts
  • The best way to add personal touch, to breath in the life into the displayed text is to use one of the handwritten font versions for a title or key words. Such insertions will make the text vivid, vigorous, and really live.

  • School fonts
  • School fonts available these days are so diverse that it is even difficult to give them appropriate characteristics. The best way, perhaps, is an individual approach to every particular typeface of school font category.

  • Trash fonts
  • If you have to create a project meant for young ambitious and advanced people, it is a trash font you should evaluate for headlines, titles, and logos. Eye-catching, attractive, and unexpected it will be with such stylish texts design.

  • Latin fonts
  • Also known as Roman, Latin alphabet is now the most widely used writing system in the world. Along with its use in many Western languages, Latin fonts are used as de-facto standard in informational technologies, for example, in multiple programming languages and Internet and email addresses.

  • Cyrillic fonts
  • Due to the development and wide popularization of the Unicode standard, modern computers can support virtually all the world languages, irrespectively to what writing system they use. Cyrillic fonts are installed by default in popular operating systems. However, when it is necessary to enrich the collection of the installed fonts, one can always find new ones at Fonts2u – a free font database in the Internet.

  • Greek fonts
  • Along with other four modern European scripts, Greek alphabet is supported by the Unicode standard. Thus, Greek fonts are available on virtually any personal computer, which makes them greatly popular for multiple applications from writing documents to creating web pages.

  • Armenian fonts
  • Fonts2u is a new online free font repository with the growing popularity and thousands of fonts for both Mac and PC, where one can find fonts even for really rare and unique scripts, such as Armenian fonts.

  • Coptic fonts
  • Among a wide variety of computer fonts at Fonts2u, one can find a special font, supporting a rare, yet very interesting alphabet, called Coptic. Coptic font, actually, represents the very first script, which was used for the Egyptian language.

  • Georgian fonts
  • Georgian is the official language in Georgia, an independent country located in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. All in all this is a native language for about 4 million people living in Georgia itself and abroad.

  • African fonts
  • Fonts2u offers a collection of African fonts, which support specific character maps for Ethiopic, N'Ko, Osmaniya, Tifinagh, Vai, and other traditional African scripts.

  • Ethiopic fonts
  • In order to display or type a text in the certain East African languages, such as Amharic, Bilen, Tigrinya, and others, Ethiopic font should be installed on the computer. Ethiopic fonts are usually Unicode-based fonts with the support of a specific character map.

  • Arabic fonts
  • Among a variety of foreign fonts, exhibited at Fonts2u and available for free downloading, one can find about three hundred of fonts, representing the eye-catching and unique family of Arabic fonts.

  • Hebrew fonts
  • If you are looking for a particular Hebrew font or just wish to get familiar with the typefaces, representing this font family, there are many Hebrew fonts offered for free download at Fonts2u.com.

  • Asian fonts
  • In the classification of digital or computer fonts, Asian font term is usually used as the general term to define fonts, which are associated with the whole family of Asian languages, such as Chinese, Lao, Thai, Japanese, etc.

  • Indic fonts
  • It is believed that ancient Indic scripts formed the background for the development of many world languages. Now computer Indic fonts are commonly used in the countries, where different variants of Indic language are used.

  • Ideographs
  • The characters or symbols, used in the Chinese language, are often called ideographs. The key characteristic feature of an ideograph is that it denotes an idea or the meaning of the word, instead of some particular lexical item.

  • Chinese fonts
  • Font collection at the specialized web portal Fonts2u contains dozens of different font categories, from basic and bitmap fonts to fancy and foreign typefaces, such as Chinese fonts. Here one can find free fonts of different styles to print traditional Chinese symbols.

  • Japanese fonts
  • In order to view the original Japanese documents, such as texts or web pages, it is usually not necessary to have a particular Japanese font installed on a user's computer. However, if it is required to interact somehow with such document, editing it or filling some forms, then it will be necessary to install Japanese fonts on the local machine.

  • Korean fonts
  • If you are looking for a Korean fonts with the support of specific character maps, visit Fonts2u, an online font repository, offering hundreds of foreign fonts, including Korean ones with Hangul traditional alphabet support.

  • Font designers
  • A type designer or a font designer is a person who creates, develops, and designs typefaces. Font designers may work independently or may be employed by companies, dealing with fonts, computer technologies, design, etc.

  • Font vendors
  • Font vendor usually refers to an individual or organization that specializes on selling digital fonts. For example, such font vendor list is offered at Fonts2u.com

  • Font converter
  • Online font converter is a web application, which allows converting a font from one format to another. For example, a TrueType font can be converted to OpenType font file and vice versa.

  • Font download
  • Downloading fonts is one of the favorite online activities. Millions of people hunt for free fonts in the Internet every day to express themselves or to realize their creative ideas with the help of font-enriched text.

  • Typography
  • By the traditional definition, typography is explained as the art and technique of organizing type, type design, and editing type glyphs. Basically, typography explains how to select and use different typefaces.