Times New Roman Font: Is It Free, How to Get It, and What Looks Identical
You almost certainly already have Times New Roman, and if you do not, two free fonts match it letter for letter so your document keeps exactly the…
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Comic Sans: The Drawing Is Fine, the Problem Is Where It Gets Used
Comic Sans is the most mocked typeface in the world, and most of the mockery is aimed at the wrong thing. Here is what its letterforms actually do…
The Papyrus Font: Why It Is Everywhere, and What to Use Instead
Papyrus has shipped with every Windows and Mac since the nineties, which is most of the reason you keep seeing it. Here is what its letterforms…
Glitter Fonts: How to Tell Real Sparkle From a Sparkly Background
Half the glitter effects you will find put the sparkle in the background rather than in the letters. Cut them out and they go flat. Here is how to…
Cute Fonts: 8 Styles, and Why Kawaii Is Not the Same Thing
Search for a cute font and you get two completely different kinds of tool, which is why so many people end up with the wrong one. Here is the…
Fire Fonts: 8 Styles, and the Rule That Makes Them Work
Every fire font sample you have ever seen sits on a black background, and there is a reason for that. Eight fire lettering styles on the same word…
Bubble Letters: 8 Styles, and How to Draw Them
Bubble letters are the fat, rounded lettering everyone drew in the margins of a school notebook. Here is the one rule that makes them work, eight…
Colour Text Effects: Eight Colours, and How to Pick Yours
Nobody searches for coloured text. People search for blue text, or pink, or red. So this guide is organised by colour: what each one says, where it…
Logo Fonts: Why Your Favourite Game Logo Is Not a Font
The lettering on a game box or a cartoon title is almost never a typeface. It was drawn once, by hand, for one word. Here is what that changes, and…
Halloween Fonts: 8 Styles, and Which One Suits Your Party
A pumpkin font for a five-year-old's party and a blood-drip font for a haunted house are not interchangeable. Eight Halloween lettering styles on the…
Cursive Fonts: Pasted Text or Real Lettering, and 8 Styles Compared
Two very different things are called a cursive font generator: characters you paste, and lettering you render. Here is what separates them, plus…
Graffiti Fonts Explained: 9 Lettering Styles on the Same Word
Tag, throw-up, bubble, blockbuster, wildstyle, chrome: the nine graffiti lettering styles shown on the same word, with what separates them and which…