Fonts and typefaces

OH BOYYY I can display my fave fonts here and their respective merits okay. I always use the word fonts where I should be saying typefaces, so I will use "typeface" as much as I can from here on out.

A typeface describes an overall style of letters, and fonts refer to the specific version of that letter style with different weights and sizes and such. The typeface (or type family) is like the family a font belongs to.

This website and the other one too

• Times New Roman on both
  • HIGHLY COMPATIBLE
    • Websafe
    • Supports languages that I need/type in
      • IPA (phonetic alphabet)
      • Vietnamese
      • French
      • literally any alphabet I could possibly want
  • I like the basic vibe ngl :) it adds a certain dated quality that makes me feel quirky
• Avara using for title headers on my personal website, but I can't figure out how to get them to work for the Digital Garden website.
• Xanh Mono also on personal website bc it's made for vietnamese and I think it looks really nice. Only downfall is that its readability is pretty Bad.
  • Considering replacing this with Recursive or M PLUS Code Latin

Showcase

Pretty typefaces

• Avara as prev. mentioned. A font that has no curves, only straight lines
• Wremena it's just vibey
• Junicode Bold Condensed it gives Newspaper.
• Basteleur modern but medieval

Cool typefaces

• Cantique Viet support with a Greek letter twist
• Recursive very cool... Viet support. But I got a bit sick of it, I think it's too fun for me.
• Handjet a variable font that animates letters using a grid of repeated elements

Typefaces with a story in my life

• Britannic Bold (in primary school, I said this was my fave font LOL but that's not the case now)
• Lora (used for my old studyblr HAHA)
• Comic Sans (used to write a series of scathing anonymous notes during high school that I was accused of writing. Maybe I will write about that one day, that wasn't the best time)

Other typefaces with a story

• Occlusion Grotesque, a typeface being made by a tree.
• 22/22, a collection of 22 fonts being released once at a time for free throughout end of 2022, or donate and receive all fonts released at time of donation.

Where to get fonts

for free

• Velvetyne has sooooooo many nice ones I would use so many of them!!! French peeps.
• Collletttivo seems cool! I like their small collection
• Open Foundry, fonts I have not used but it's also a good place, I think it was down for a bit but it's back up
• Google Fonts is gr8 lol super basic but they work great and have a lot of compatibility!! Google owns everything in the world except for the stuff Mark Zuckerberg owns!!!! HAha
• Free Faces
• Fontshare by the Indian Type Foundry
• Dirtyline Studio
• Pixel Surplus haven't used this but had a note about it from Jan 2023 so adding it here
• Font Squirrel
• font download
• dafont
• texturelabs
• resourceboy
• fontshare
• uncut wtf
• xcicero esad-gv just discovered via this link and wow they are stunning
• republish is a Vietnamese typeface foundry

for slightly less free

• Paid but cheap fontspring

Identifying fonts

Can't identify a font? What the font?