{"id":4548,"date":"2003-08-08T09:02:50","date_gmt":"2003-08-08T16:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4548"},"modified":"2003-08-08T09:02:50","modified_gmt":"2003-08-08T16:02:50","slug":"fonts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/08\/fonts.html","title":{"rendered":"Fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like fonts.  I used to actually draw typefaces, back in the day, and was pretty good at lettering and calliagraphy.  Now I just collect fonts.<\/p>\n<p>Latest resource:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksfonts.com\">Nick&#8217;s Fonts <\/a>(by Nick Curtis).  Some very nice retro typefaces here, many of which are free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like fonts. I used to actually draw typefaces, back in the day, and was pretty good at lettering and calliagraphy. Now I just collect fonts. 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WTF?  LOL!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Nov-05 11:57am","format":false,"excerpt":"Typographers are considering -- hypothetically -- the creation of new ligatures (joined type elements) to represent some L33Tspeak and chat abbreviations, such as \"wtf\" and \"lol\". Ligatures are letter forms...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Writing and Language&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Writing and Language","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/writing-and-language"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3886,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/18\/just_the_fonts.html","url_meta":{"origin":4548,"position":5},"title":"Just the fonts, ma&#8217;am","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Mar-03 2:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Uncle Bear has some fun fonts for contemporary RPG campaigns: government bureaus, military aircraft, NASA, and city\/corporate letterhead. Suitable for all sorts of hobbying purposes, I imagine. 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