m.i.a sure could have used one or two of these on arular now couldnt she?

Or fonts taken from Kraftwerk albums.

Most of my links are at home, but here are a couple to get you started..

fountain
misprinted type

has some good free fonts, although most of the stuff you have to pay for. Not sure if you'd call any of them 'edgy', but they are of very high quality...

Pencrush: there was just a nice piece in HOW magazine about Eduardo Recife of Misprinted Type. Part of a focus on Brazillian (I believe) graphic designers. Worth checking out.

an clue as to where to find a true helvetica type online?

oh, and artisitica

there are separate "issues" that have a free font section in them (most of them) but you have to look through them. It's funny, the site hasn't been updated in years but it's still there, and there are some good grungy fonts on there.. I'm assuming that's what you mean by edgy.

It's unlikely you're going to find helvetica for free online, maybe on some p2p networks. You can buy it from Adobe, or any other reputable typeface seller..

@pixelwhore: Was that in the latest issue? I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the tip.

pencrush: its the April 2005 issue - actually the first time I ever picked up HOW and was pleasantly surprised.

some more..

briar press really more symbols than fonts
fenotype
vfive
da font
superlooper
maniackers design
general typography links
and a whole forum discussion of free fonts from typophile.com

thepiratebay.org has a torrent with the full linotype library which includes all the classic fonts

Chnak.com has some decent free ones and some inexpensive ones.

ahem, www.chank.com

is it illegal to trade font in archinect?
i'm want helvetica family font and i've rotis family font to trade.

i have the helvetica family fonts for the mac...

thx meversusyou... I am PC user... any PC fonts to trade?

also, can anyone tell if a page contains both arial and helvetica fonts?
(... i can)

i think i know...

arial letters have a radial cut in them, as seen in the letters c & s
whereas
helvetica letters are completely horizontal

at the ends of the letters i mean

maybe this is not the best site to ask this, but does someone know what font is used in this text?:



or does someone know any other site (graphic design forums et altri) where I can find about it?

thanks

HEY GUYS, i AM PROBABLY THE ONLY ONE HERE WHO DOES KNOW HOW THE FREE DOWNLOAD FONTS WORK? PLEASE LET ME KNOW HOW TO GET IT INTO MICROSOFT WORD, OR ANY OTHER PROGRAMS THAT WOULD WORK. tHANKS

KKKK, download fonts, unzip them and place them in a folder in your C drive. Then go to Settings, Control Panel, then Fonts. In this window, there is an install new font command in the file menu. Then follow the instructions. The newly installed fonjts will appear in any program that uses them, ie word, excel, photoshop etc.

Medit - Typophile should be able to tell you the name of the font and answer any other questions you might have. These guys really know what they are talking about.

thanks juan!

nice holz! I recently found this but yours has some good ones they missed, particularly in the san-serif and slab-serif categories.

so as many of you probably already know, there is a documentary on the Helvetica font...i watched it last week and really enjoyed it

I then watched a documentary on Miami's Coccaine Cowboys which I liked even more

helvetica is a really interesting film. i love that they interview the haters as well. too many documentaries dwell on the pros... the cons, not so much.