Free Wedding Text Font
From LoveToKnow Web-Design
With all the hectic planning involved in a wedding, having a free wedding text font to unify the invitations, signs, website and thank-you cards can be quite a blessing. It's one less thing for the bride to worry about, one less thing for Dad to pay for, and the odds are that there are enough free wedding text fonts available that the newlyweds can find one themy like and can call their own.
A Free Wedding Text Font may Already be Here
The best news is that popular word processing programs such as Microsoft Word may already have a font that is suitable for the wedding. While technically not "free" – you purchased them along with the word-processing program – they are not going to cost you any more, and are already in your computer, ready to be seen.
Take a moment first to figure out what style of font will match your wedding. Is it very traditional? Perhaps a flowing, rounded script like Snell Roundhand would be best. If the wedding has a modern, metropolitan kind of design, Optima ExtraBlack might be good. A sophisticated wedding with a band might choose the Jazz LET version. All of these qualify as a free wedding text font, simply because you don't have to pay anything extra for them.
One important thing to keep in mind is that not all fonts – especially the more esoteric ones – have all the characters. In other words, while the letters in upper and lower case may all be present, a "#" sign or even an "&" might be missing from the font case. If these are needed on the website or in the invitations and other print materials, it would be a good idea to have an alternate font for those characters selected before the actual printing deadline.
A sidenote to the idea of using the already included fonts in word processing programs: two very popular fonts, Dingbats and Wingdings are not actually letter fonts but are decorative ornaments. They contain swirls, stars and other symbols that can be used in various sizes to add a touch of elegance and playfulness to your wedding design.
Other Sources for Fonts
Font design is actually an art form, and the design of a free wedding text font is a common enough addition to a fontographer's portfolio. There are several sites which specialize in free font downloads. One of the most user-friendly is Dafont. It contains hundreds of fonts that are freely downloadable for both PC and Mac OS X. The site supports itself through advertising, but there are no sign-ups or registrations required – installing a font on your machine is as simple as downloading and clicking on the font to install.
Other professional font design houses, such as Chank have free font downloads as well, though not as wide a selection as Dafont. Most of the fonts given away are more playful than anything else, but especially if you have a themed wedding you can find many interesting and original designs.
The Vagaries of Web Design
After selecting a host for your website, the design of the site will be affected by the free wedding text font you choose. Unfortunately, unless the font is actually included with the web page – something that is prohibitively large in terms of file size – the fonts you are limited to on a page are basically the standard serif (Times, Georgia, New Roman) or non-serif (Arial, Helvetica, Verdana).
Section headings or specific bits of information (such as, perhaps, a mock-up of the actual invitation) can be created using image creation programs such as Adobe Photoshop. Another strategy would be to use a vector-based program such as Flash (also from Adobe) to do the entire site, which would convert the final text into a very small file. Both programs are available as free downloads from Adobe, along with the unifying web design program Dreamweaver. However, that kind of design requires a level of expertise with the programs that would either have a steep learning curve or the cost of a professional designer.
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