Two Words: FREE FONTS!

Are you tired of Times Roman, Verdana, Georgia and the standard lineup of software-specific fonts you are using in your materials? Fonts convey feelings, emotion, personality and presence.

I am a closet font fanatic. I love fonts the way other women love shoes.

Here are some GREAT free font resources that provide font options for you to liven up your materials and breathe some life into your message. These are only just a few sites that offer free fonts for your use:

• urbanfonts.com offers a selection of featured free fonts
• simply the best fonts is also another font library
• 1001freefonts.com is my fave. 1001freefonts offers: 
- an entire A-Z library of free fonts - an option to test your text in the fonts of your choice to see how it looks before you download the font  - option to download the font for either Mac or Windows - font searches in multiple ways, either font type or alphabetically
• searchfreefonts.com is also a great font library

Simply click on the downloadable fonts and save them on your desktop. In some cases you need to unzip the font file you have saved on the desktop. You then just copy and paste the font file (the file(s) with a .ttf file extension) into your Windows/Fonts folder in your computer, et voila!

Contact me through my website, ideasinbloom.ca, if you have any font questions.

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Tonia Lenk is a brand specialist and owner of Ideas In Bloom, a brand design studio specializing in collaboration on projects with clients who are dedicated to excellence, committed to the community and sustainability in the environment. She is a proud mother of four, and writing her first novel in 2010. She recently took up flute, and shares her knowledge on print, web and brand design freely!