Sign lettering

[NanodAirbrush]

Where can I find good fonts, for sign lettering?
(I've browsed through 'dafont'.)
Other tips?

[pkmsigns]

http://www.letterheadfonts.com/

[NanodAirbrush]

Oh, it's very good!

THX!

[pkmsigns]

http://artandsignstudio.com/fonts.html

http://signdna.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1_58&zenid=65a0fd4b421c46289aad5ce14f3d14cc

[bigwater]

These guys have already covered the best fonts for sign lettering. When I first read the OP, these were the ones that came to mind immediately, they are the ones I always trend toward when working up new designs. They can get expensive though if you start buying up collections.

You can find some halfway decent fonts for a lot less money at places like Hallmark and American Greetings. These are generally fun fonts that are designed for use in greeting cards, but depending on the sign can be very appropriate.

I have over 600,000 fonts in my library, and can assure you that you don't need to start collecting fonts. In the first place it makes it absolutely impossible to find anything, and it makes it extremely difficult to pick and choose what font you want to use on a job. I'd stick with the A&S, Letterhead, and SignDNA for now, if you can afford them, and move forward from there as your needs for originality outgrow them.

[Whit]

These guys have already covered the best fonts for sign lettering. When I first read the OP, these were the ones that came to mind immediately, they are the ones I always trend toward when working up new designs. They can get expensive though if you start buying up collections.

You can find some halfway decent fonts for a lot less money at places like Hallmark and American Greetings. These are generally fun fonts that are designed for use in greeting cards, but depending on the sign can be very appropriate.

I have over 600,000 fonts in my library, and can assure you that you don't need to start collecting fonts. In the first place it makes it absolutely impossible to find anything, and it makes it extremely difficult to pick and choose what font you want to use on a job. I'd stick with the A&S, Letterhead, and SignDNA for now, if you can afford them, and move forward from there as your needs for originality outgrow them.

Can't say it any better than that,,,also/and/but,,,
Don't Load All Your Unused Fonts On Your Puter,,,
it'l take forever to boot,, just adds extra load to everything !!!

[bigwater]

Good point Whit. Keep the fonts that you automatically load down to a minimum. Go through your font list and load them as needed, but every font you load automatically on boot is just going to eat up extra RAM. You can kill your system pretty quickly if you start loading too many fonts. More than about 30 or so fonts on startup and you will bog your system down.

Another tip on font usage. Keep your rarely used fonts in a directory other than the windows/fonts directory. Those are the ones that get loaded automatically. When you need a rarely used font, open it in preview mode by scanning to it and double clicking on it. That will load the font into memory. When you close the preview, it will unload it from memory. So click on the preview and then start your design program. That font will be available for use in the design program for the duration that you keep the preview open.

I often add fonts to my standard font list in the windows/fonts directory for long term jobs that I'm working on for customers, but I have to go through and clean those fonts out after time as my system starts bogging down. ALWAYS make sure to keep records of what fonts you've used on customer's jobs. Most design software gives you a place to make notes about what you've done on a job. There's nothing worse than going to redo a job you did a couple of years back only to find that you don't remember what the font was. You'll waste hours trying to identify the font, when if you had simply made a note associated with the artwork saying what the font was, you could locate it quickly.

[JimmyG]

Good Tip on the font to memory Ron....Works well with Corel Draw but I have to Save & Restart to change out a temp font, so sometimes I think ahead and load several...

[bigwater]

Yeah, it actually works with every program I've ever used. You just want to make sure you have the font opened in preview mode before you launch whatever program you want to use it in. Then it will appear as an available font in that program. Opening the font after the program is already running won't work. It has to be open before the program is launched.