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If you’ve not used What The Font from My Fonts before, it’s THE best resource for identifying fonts. When I worked as I junior designer (in-between making 400 cups of tea per day) I remember going through thousands of fonts trying to identify the one I was after, and knowing about this would have been a blessing at the time.

All you do is:

1. See a font you like (yeah this was in my husband’s copy of FHM).

2. Take a picture of it (if it’s in print, on the web you can just take a screenshot).

3. Crop it.

3. Upload it to the website.

4. Ta-da, the mystery font is revealed!

In this case it was Metroscript Regular, pretty huh? The site actually doesn’t cope too well with joined up writing, but it managed to identify the font on this occasion from just one character, so clever!

I have a couple of good font resources for you today. The first is Font Squirrel, which has a range of fonts which are all free for commercial use, and they have some lovely ones to choose from:

The second is something I’ve seen tweeted about a few times this week, definitely check out Snippet and Ink’s 50 Favourite Fonts, it’s a flipping lovely collection.

I love love love this font! I’ve used it on many a wedding invitation as it’s quite feminine and goes very well with floral type illustrations, but also really stylish. I’d possibly go as far as to say it’s my favourite script type font!

I you like it as much as I do, you can get it here.

I’m working on something new at the moment, more to come on that… but I’ve be trying out a few different fonts for this new project, and although I’m not using it, I thought the word ‘Lovely’ looked really… um… lovely in this font. This is another one I use quite regularly and it’s also available as a Google web font, so can be used on websites, I think it looks really good in headings and alongside plainer fonts.

You can get it here, it’s another free one although donations are encouraged (and worth it I think).

One of my Milk colleagues discovered this lovely little website a while ago, it’s a pay what you like font foundry (you can even type $0 for a free download), although all funds from sales go direct to the designers, and they have some lovely fonts, so it’s definitely something worth paying a few bob for.

Below are a few of my favourites, and be sure to check out the website for more.

This week’s font love goes to Buttermilk by Jessica Hische, if you’ve not heard of her before be sure to check out her work, (highlights for me include Daily Drop Cap and Should I Work For Free) she’s basically the queen of type. This font is used quite often in wedding stationery and you can see why, it’s so pretty and feminine, but with a lovely chunkiness that gives it impact too.

You can buy Buttermilk from Jessica’s website.

Have a lovely weekend!

Welcome to the first Font Friday, where we’ll be sharing some of our favourite fonts and where to get them, as well as lots of nice font freebies. This week it’s Verner by Fenotype. I LOVE this font and use it quite a bit since discovering it a few months ago. I think I saw it in a magazine, photographed the page and uploaded to www.whatthefont.com (yes, I’m a geek) which is a brilliant little resource for identifying fonts.

I love the swooshes and the way some of the characters join (sure there is a more technical term for this).

Enjoy! You can buy it here.