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5D Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://www.dircon.co.uk/5d/. 5D is a software developer specializing in PostScript technology and special effects for the TV/movie industry. email: steve@five-d.com
23.SE Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://home4.swipnet.se/~w-44190/. Several Mac fonts, we don't know if they are freeware or shareware.
Abstract Type Design Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://members.xoom.com/pbdurr/.
AdvanceMeants, Inc.  Barcode fonts including PDF417, Code 39 and Code
128. Free barcode tools include Visual Basic source code and Microsoft
Office VBA. email: admin@advancemeants.com
Afterglow Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://spaceage.swankarmy.net/type/. email: petr@swankarmy.net
Alex' den - The flipside of Project  A bunch of original font creations by Alex Gollner.
alfabag monstertucks Looks like they sold the www.alfabag.com URL to a company that makes plastic bags. email: stars@alfabag.com
Alphabet Soup Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://soup.swankarmy.net/index2.html. Fonts for the soul. Original creations by Jason Fagone. email: fontboy@psu.edu
Alphabet Street Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://funky.demon.nl/abc/abc.html. Especially 4 U fans of the purple poet. Fonts inspired by the artist formerly known as Prince. email: abclist@funky.demon.nl
Alphabets   Alphabets, founded in 1987, is one of the first digital-micro- foundries, and was among the first to offer fonts online. Now primarily licensing through online distributors, but direct sales are also available by request. email: info@alphabets.com
Alpona Portal Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address. We have been developing our localized fonts (for Bengali) for the last 3 years. email: ranju@akshor.com
&cond   &cond., makes freeware fonts distributed under the GNU public licence. Currently several fonts for Macintosh and Windows 95/95 are available. Fonts are available from &cond.,'s Web site. email: peter@rogue.temple.edu
Ank's Fonts and Photoshop May have disappeared or moved from last know address, http://www.geocities.com/soho/lofts/6360/. Free type foundry. New fonts are posted about once every two weeks. email: juicyjae@hotmail.com
anthem type  Your basic grunge font outfit - some fonts are free, some are not. email: anthem@bloop.org
Archive Type   Archive Type specializes in antique typefaces found in old prints,
books, and samples. The fonts, with the imperfections all perfectly
preserved, bring all the script, sans-serif, and poster styles from a
19th century print shop to the digital age.
In most cases, character sets are only available in upper and lower
case letters, numbers, and basic punctuation.
Apart from 30 fonts available for purchase, there is a free font and a
few typo T-shirt graphics available for downloading. email: info@archivetype.com
Astigmatic One Eye  Fonts from the dark spot. AOE's aims are
1. To offer unusual, quality, original TrueType fonts for Macs and PCs.
2. To release, at the very least, one new Freeware font each month!
3. To offer all Shareware fonts at a reasonable rate to you. email: astigma@astigmatic.com
büro destruct  Live from Switzerland. The site features some free fonts and some 'pay fonts' (as they seem to be called on the Web). email: bdteam@bermuda.ch
B/W Fontworks   B/W Fontworks is a small company that produces original handcrafted fonts, including the popular 'Glory' and 'Qurve' fonts. All fonts are free for personal and non-profit use; some have a registration fee for commercial use. email: bwsoft@revealed.net
Aaron W. Beck Co. Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://www.aros.net/~abeck/. Shareware fonts on a macabre theme. email: abeck@awbeck.com
Beetles and Dry Fish This site has apparently moved or gone away. The last known address for this site currently redirects to a series of X-rated Web sites.
Bihidryed Last known address
geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8018/. Original fonts designed by Brandon Thomas of Bihidryed. Check out 'Speartooth' it's crazy!
Bitmap Last know address - http://cgi3.tky.3web.ne.jp/~oshimoto/extra/bitmap/. Bitmap fonts from Japan.
Bizfonts.com   At BizFonts.com you will find bar code and ID fonts including MICR E-13B, CMC-7, OCR, POSTNET, PLANET, PDF417, Code 39, Code 128, DataMatrix, Codabar, UPC, EAN, Interleaved 2 of 5, MSI Plessey, and many more. email: admin@idautomation.com
Mister Bla's Fontworx Mr Blah was unable to provide a description of his foundry. email: bla8226@online.no
Blackboard Etiquette Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://ar.com.au/~bbetiq/bb.htm. Blackboard Etiquette are Australia's number one chalkart studio, specializing in creative chalkboard menu design. They also spend their spare time creating fonts to give away. email: bbetiq@ar.com.au
Blissym Language Institute   BLI is developing tools to support the graphical international language invented by Charles K. Bliss.
Blue Rats Site may have moved or disappeared from its lats known address, http://webhome.infonie.fr/bluerats/bfa.html. Fonts by some blue rats from France.
Bold Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://www.spinacle.com/bold/. A couple of free Mac fonts and some interesting type essays. email: jo@printisdead.com
Brainstew Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://www.swankarmy.net/brainstew/. The Brainstew team have been busy with new fonts in the works and a redesigned site.
The Bright Side  Site now redirects to www.chank.com. Live from Stockholm, original dingbats and text fonts! email: brightside@chank.com
Buddha Graphix Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address. 'A one man operation with occasional help from friends.' Jesper Birk's FunkDaFont series is available here as shareware. email: bat@post3.tele.dk
Buttfaces  'It all started back about 20 years ago. I was about ten years old and I know you won't believe this, but I was in a bathroom.' email: tylus@cox.net
BV Fonts  Free and commercial fonts. email: bluevinyl@bvfonts.com
Byte-sized Computing  A realistic key-caps font and a 3D 'tiled letters' font. email: Simon@Byte-Sized.com
Caffeen '31 of the net's most original typefaces
aren't just different; they're also very
cool and free to use.' email: jesse@swank.ca
Phil Campbell Last known at http://members.ozemail.com.au/~philcam/foxjump.html. Featuring Foxjump - a foxy font family. email: philcam@nor.com.au
carini type foundry  Live from Switzerland, an experimental type foundry. Featuring 'Adler' which they describe as, 'yet another typewriter font? well as freefont it's okay. first of all it's very cheap comparing with trixie and much more cooler'. email: genova@goeast.ch
Carpenter Type Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://www.carpentertype.com/. Brazillian illustrator Paulo Roberto Purim runs Carpenter Type, which he describes as a comercial type foundry inspired by old books, the Bonsai typeface, a Barbra Streisand song, retro type and the books of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. email: prpurim@mais.sul.com.br
Casa De Toad Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://www.cdtoad.com/fonts.html. Surfing the ragged edge of typoculture. email: cdtoad@cdtoad.com
P. J. Cassel Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://www.prismnet.com/~pjcassel/font.html. Home of the Smiley Font, a decorative font where the letters have smiley faces. email: pjcassel@prismnet.com
Celtic Lady's Fonts   Original & traditional Celtic clip art and historical fonts; Sophisticated
Celtic jewelry designs of Brittany Butler. Explore the ancient world of Celts! email: celticlady@celticlady.com
Chank Fonts  The Chankstore: Fresh new fonts by the American Alphabetician Chank Diesel and his wandering gang of typographic wonderstuds. Home of the original Font of the Month Club. email: info@chank.com
Cheops Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://www.idirect.com/~experts/cheops/fonts.html. Thirteen original fonts by Scott Dieznyik inspired by Martian relics and endowed with typographic voodoo. email: pjcassel@prismnet.com
Damon Clark's Web Site  Interaction designer and co-designer of Mac system font Espy, Damon Clark has provided a free Macintosh screen-font to help enhance the clarity of your interaction design. email: damon@damonclark.com
Clearlight Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://www.swankarmy.net/clearlight/. Brad Barham used to have a picture of Leon on his homepage, but now it's gone, and so have the fonts! (not sure what's going on here) email: brad@swankarmy.net
Comania Design and flower?power Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://freefonts.comania.no/. email: fredrik@comania.no
Comic Babies Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://home.netvigator.com/~otokoaie/. A handful of processed fonts with baby in their title. email: otokoaie@netvigator.com
Con's Homepage Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://ireland.iol.ie/~ckennedy/folio.html. Traditional Irish fonts by Con Kennedy. email: ckennedy@iol.ie
Oliver Conte Design  Custom creations by Oliver Conte Design. email: webmaster@ocdesign.com
corduroy Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address. Right now I only have one on-line font which can be downloaded but I plan to add approximately 5 over the next few weeks, all original in design. email: corduroy@sympatico.ca
Core  Free fonts, pixel fonts and Malmo Sans, a geometric humanist and legible sans-serif in seven weights. email: martin@core.nu
Cosmorama F  Formerly Laser Printing Solutions. Esoteric fonts and special symbols by Kenneth Hirst.
CR8 Software Solutions   CR8 Software Solutions produces OpenType font design/editing software and barcode fonts. email: allanmurray@cr8software.net
decomposed Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://www.swankarmy.net/decompsd/main.htm. 'fonts are an essential part of design. i made a font, it sucks, but it's free. i'm working on another one, that doesn't suck as much. the font is called bizzare. the nicer one is evolved, but its not done.' email: decompsd@swankarmy.net
Stephen Deken Site may have moved or disappeared. Last spotted at http://www.umr.edu/~sdeken/. Style is the direct product of fonts, and without fonts style could not exist. Discuss.
den7  Some free fonts by Kotaro Hatano. email: den7@orange.ne.jp
Derek's Gardenparty Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://www2.ucsc.edu/people/dego/gardenparty.html. Some fonts based on the lettering used on Cardigans and Republica product packaging.
Design 76 Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/6160/fonts.htm. Shareware fonts well worth their $5 asking price. email: lipstickgunn@geocities.com
Dick's Fish Original Fonts Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Palms/6075/archive1.html. Free fonts with free attitude. email: kickdrum@worldnet.att.net
Digital Ink Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://www.d-ink.com/DigitalInk2/Free.html. Design agency offering custom type and logo design services.
dincTYPE  dincTYPE is a small commercial type foundry which attempts to provide unique, original display faces at reasonable prices. we currently also offer a number of free fonts. email: dinc@intercall.net
Dingbat Dungeon Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://www.geocities.com/~dingbatdungeon/. Produces dingbat fonts for role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, etc., email: goatfish@tds.net
Disturbed  Free fonts from an unlucky fisherman and marching band member from Carthage, Tennessee.
[Divide By Zero] Fonts  A collection of TrueType fonts made for fun by Tom Murphy. They are entirely free to use, but don't even think about reselling any of them. email: ImightbeTM@aol.com
Dixon Fish Ranch Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://www.sentex.net/~sarak/dixon/news.html. Featuring fonts that are free and looking for a good home. email: dixonfish@rocketmail.com
Ryan Donahue Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, www.uidaho.edu/~ryan873/. A number of free fonts complement Ryan's commercial work for Garage Fonts. email: ryan873@uidaho.edu
dope fonts Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, www.geocities.com/Paris/6513/. This site promised to offer really interesting fonts at some time in the future. email: spaceboy_@hotmail.com
The Dynasty Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://www.geocities.com/~ssz/dynasty/index2.htm. 'Regime' is a shareware Windows TrueType font by Ryan Degnan. More designs are on the way. email: punkmonk@hotmail.com
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