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    March 02

    Talking about Font Art And Design Tools

    Lots of fun creative sites referenced here. Most relate to sound but not all of them.

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    Font Art And Design Tools

    A collection of links to handy font art and design resources including music related fonts.

    Creating fonts:

    • FontEditor  is an online tool for creating your own pixel fonts using the BitFontMaker.

    Font art creation:

    • ASCII Generator lets you input text and choose a font to generate an ASCII design. 
    • GIF2TXT takes the URL of a GIF image and converts that GIF image into ASCII text or colored HTML.
    • Wikipedia ASCII Art is a reference guide with useful information and links to ASCII art resources. It also provides details on how to place ASCII art in HTML pages.
    • Text-Image lets you convert any image to a text-image using the online tool.
    • Typedrawing is an online tool that lets you draw letters, symbols and text phrases on a blank board using the mouse. Your creations can be saved to an online gallery or downloaded.

    Font galleries and freeware downloads:

    Font blogs:

    • Fontleech is a blog focusing on free fonts and font design tools.

    Font and text design resources:

    • Music Fonts is a comprehensive list of designers and sites specialising in music typefaces and notation fonts. Covers font software tools and font archives.
    • Soundspy Directory has searchable categories of sites with font resources.
    • The Generator Blog features links to many text generating tools largely for fun.
     
    Tags: design fonts text