Font Search 1

I’m sure there will be a “2” so I might as well number the first one.

I’m a little too hyped up from Riverdance to go to bed. Why not search for fonts? That’s sleep inducing.

How do you know you’re old? “AI” doesn’t pop into your head as the first option for problems such as this: What are free bold, condensed fonts with sharp serifs?

How do you know you’re experienced? When the AI returns garbage and you can find something without it. There are a bunch at Graphic Design Junction that have “Download” buttons. I have neither tried nor read the license, yet.

• Lorida has potential, but a bit swishy.
• Summer Bliss might work.
• I like Rosterine, but it may not be genre-appropriate.
• Condensed Urban Vintage might work.
• Jinkel, maybe?
• Galcia Condensed Rounded probably not.
• Momentum Condensed Display has serifs!
• Moreguns is just a neat name.
• CS Damon Condensed looks good.
• DARKES Condensed Serif is a little weird looking, which might be a positive.
• Damon looks nice.

The Download links don’t work. But I have names to search for, now.

Starting with CS Damon Condensed to get a feel for how this works. It was created by CSCO, whoever they are.

• Craft Supply. E-book requires Publisher License for $300. Desktop is just $20, so I could try it then upgrade if I like it.
• Envato. Subscription based. $16.50 for unlimited downloads. I could try stuff there then buy a license elsewhere. They say the fonts you “register” remain licensed after your subscription lapses.
• Creative Market. Basically the same as Craft Supply.
• befonts. You can download a non-Unicode (fine for me) demo font for personal use. The e-book license is the same $300.

$300 seems a bit much for book titles. 10 books in the series with an average of 5 word titles makes it $6 a word; not egregious, but steep.

One more from a different creator. Momentum Condensed Display is by helicastudio. Three of the first four search results are different.

• Envato. It’s the same.
• iFonts. The domain name is ifonts.xyz; that’s not sketchy. There’s a Download button and a Commercial License Link button, which pops one back to Envato. This might work for experimenting. Malware in fonts is possible (not going to bother to find the link) but exceedingly unlikely.
• MyFonts. The site is hard to use, but they have the best lawyers. $29 for Desktop/Personal use.
• The other one is an article about the font. Someone writes those? Point conceded: I write this. Someone reads those?
• befonts is there.

I think the winner is WhatFontIs.com. It finds similar fonts, displays samples, and tells you if they’re free or not. That’s going to take time to explore. Time I would rather spend sleeping.