![]() ![]() Then after all that work, it has to be hinted for on-screen use, because otherwise they will look terrible at small sizes. It's their job to make the kerning look its best by default so when an amateur designer is too lazy to kern it, or if it's being used as body copy, it won't look horrible. And when that's all done, the kerning tables have to be made, and there are people who do this and only this. Nevermind the entire font with ligatures, italics, and different weights. I don't know if you've ever made a font, but it takes hours and hours perfecting just the shape of a single letter. The point is not that they're the original forms based off the fonts for printing presses, but that they were interpreted by professionals. Regardless, what choice do those of us that can't afford the originals have, other than to do what I'm trying to do and sort out the good from the bad? Excepting body text of course, these graphical uses are all occasions where the kerning can easily be changed and tweaked as a one-off edit, and would be tweaked even for the authentic fonts in a lot of cases. who's to say that the more modern variations aren't actually a tad better? (I have no idea, just putting that forward as something to think about)Īnother thought I had was that so far, the biggest use of custom fonts within web design (this is /r/web_design, after all), has seemed to be logos, banners, buttons, and other images. It may even be that our easy ability to precisely and infinitely adjust nodes and curves on-screen (as opposed to cutting them into metal by hand) has given us a greater ability to get the desired shapes, i.e. So, I'm not sure how we know which are the authentic, original forms, unless we have access to the original metalwork and check ourselves. Some of the typefaces I've mentioned above, such as Garamond, have a dozen slight variations available from the various big name foundries anyway. TL DR Please help me find free substitutes for great classic fonts and I will list them above. Please correct my equivalents, suggest your own nearest equivalents, or suggest new additions that you'd like to see an equivalent of, etc. Univers ≈ Arial MT? MS CoreFonts packageĪnd a list of free resources (thanks onemonkey):.Transport (UK road signs) = Download Here.Times New Roman ≈ MgOpen Canonica or TeX Gyre Termes or FreeSerif (from GNU Free Fonts project).Rockwell (Bold) ≈ ChunkFive (differences: leg of R, tail of y).Palatino ≈ URWPalladioL (From URW Font set) or TeX Gyre Pagella.Helvetica ≈ TeX Gyre Heros or MgOpen Moderna or FreeSans (from GNU Free Fonts project).Garamond ≈ Garamond No.8 (From URW Font set). ![]() Futura ≈ C&G Sans Serif, Universalis, Geo Sans Light (similar).Courier ≈ FreeMono (from GNU Free Fonts project). ![]()
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