Fonts For TITLES and MENUS

[hiptune]

Hello,

I am not sure where to post this question, this seems like as good as any.

I am in need of more font choices for my DVD titles and menus. I am using Vegas 5 and DVD Architect. And I also do some lettering/titles in Photoshop or Adobe Photo Deluxe to be inserted into my DVDA menues or Vegas 5 titles.

Does anyone know of a good Font pack at a nice price. Something like $25.00 or so. I would love to go out and buy it in a store, but I don't know what to even look for, and there might be something really good for no more money than a lesser pack. I hate to find out later "oh, I could have had a V8" if I'd have only known.

Please suggest PC fonts package for good titles. I am doing demo reels for top cinematographers and actors, and I need slick classy looking lettering.

Thanks so much in advance.

Jeff

[guns1inger]

Why pay for it when you can get it for free. There are many good free font sites around. These are a couple that I use for menus and graphics work. Many of the fonts are royalty free, some require author permission, some require a credit on the work.

http://www.dafont.com/en/top.php

http://www.simplythebest.net/fonts/index.html

[hiptune]

Why pay for it when you can get it for free. There are many good free font sites around. These are a couple that I use for menus and graphics work. Many of the fonts are royalty free, some require author permission, some require a credit on the work.

http://www.dafont.com/en/top.php

http://www.simplythebest.net/fonts/index.html

Yes, I looked at dafont site, and found it long to navagate. I would like to own a great collection rather than search. Spending 25 bucks and having a monster collection sounds better than hunting through all those sites.

No............?

[guns1inger]

I have, in the past, purchased a few sets. $25 will get you either one commercial font, or a CD of public domain fonts culled from sites like DaFont. Generally you end up with 200 fonts that are very similar, mostly useless, and you spend as much time going through these as you would going through a font site. The difference, with a font site you get to choose just the ones you want.

If you want to look at commercial fonts, start with Adobe. They have a few packs of their own, and links to commercial fontographers.

[jtoolman2000]

You are never going to get a great "Moster" pack ( as you put it ) of fonts that are ALL great. It's like a music CD. One or two good songs and 12 fillers.
Go to these independent font sites and spend a little time browsing aorund. That is the oNLY way you will find specific designs that apeal to YOU. There is no way I can put together a font pack that will apeal to each individual. It's just impossible. Besides, they are usually FREE

[mats.hogberg]

I'd agree that it's easier to buy a mega-pack of fonts. I've seen packages of 30 shock full CDs worth of true type fonts, complete with binders and printed samples of every font for around $30. I'm sure many, even most fonts suck, but for convenience, i don't think you can beta that. $30 would amount to 1/2 hour of work...

/Mats

[Xylob the Destroyer]

well, if you're into making lables for your CD's and DVD's (tho i don't recommend it for DVD's), CD-Stomper comes with a freakin' TON of cool fonts.
I picked it up at CompUSA a while ago for less than $20 and it came with the installation disc, the 'stomper', and several sheets of lables.


OR, you could always use a P2P to search for .ttf files, BUT this may or may not be legal depending on where you live and which fonts you download *beware*

[hiptune]

I'd agree that it's easier to buy a mega-pack of fonts. I've seen packages of 30 shock full CDs worth of true type fonts, complete with binders and printed samples of every font for around $30. I'm sure many, even most fonts suck, but for convenience, i don't think you can beta that. $30 would amount to 1/2 hour of work...

/Mats

Exactly. I have 4 projects going right now. And I it would take more than a half hour to find 4 really good ones on the net.

I'm the type who would rather pay for ac3 encoding than use a free program, and then another free program to trim the damn file so audio syncs.

Don't get me wrong, I love free things, and use some questionable software, but I ain't sweating 30 bucks to save me hours of searching.

Ok, Adobe gets one vote. Fry's? or Amazon?

Jeff

[Brainiac]

Hi

I purchased a CD of 1000 fonts called 1000 Best Fonts from either Office Max or Office Depot. It cost $9.99. Some of the fonts, if I remember correctly, are duplicates. But a good number of them are quite usable. Some I will never use; others I use frequently.

The website of the company is www.cosmi.com.

Brainiac