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    Quote Originally Posted by Paul View Post
    You can't go wrong with the Crazy Diamond font line (don't worry, it's short). They're all historical fonts. You've probably seen them before, actually, since the creators also created many of the paper props from the Harry Potter films (Italic Hand is Dumbledore's penmanship).

    http://www.crazydiamond.co.uk/fonts/fontlist.html

    17th Century Print is excellent for map notes on a legend.

    The Paul Llyod collection is also worth browsing:
    http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/lloyd/

    I especially like Graphis and Hominis (I can't direct link, but you can get to them easily from the above link).
    The Crazy Diamond fonts are beautiful, but a little too expensive for me. You get what you pay for, I guess.
    The Paul Lloyd font site is great, I will have to dig around a little bit in that one.

    One of my favorite sites for fonts is Scriptorium
    http://www.fontcraft.com/csa/fontcraft.php
    They also sell their fonts, but you can often find a freeby to try out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arcana View Post
    I used to LOVE the flatearth website in its heydey...wow I must say I'm honored to have you here on my site now as a member...
    I am just glad you have this site! Map making and fonts are things I am truly interested in, so finding such a well run site dealing with map making is a real treat for me.
    Well done!

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    Site with a lot of free fonts: http://www.creamundo.com/index.php?lang=en
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    Quote Originally Posted by Valarian View Post
    Site with a lot of free fonts: http://www.creamundo.com/index.php?lang=en
    Dang, that site has a lot of fonts! I didn't even get through the A's and saw half a dozen great ones I have never seen before. Great Find!

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    You can download fonts of the map symbols used in the maps for Monte Cook's Ptolus here:

    http://www.ptolus.com/cgi-bin/page.c...tolus_enhance4
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    Another great website for fantasy fonts is dafonts

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    Keep in mind that the Blambot "free" fonts are only free for online webcomic purposes. I wrote to them asking permission to use one for a published map and was politely refused.

    Of course, if the map is for your own consumption, then do as thou wilt.

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    Some of my Favorite Fonts. I really look for fonts that have a character and fit a mood, whether that be for notes and missives my Players find (I like handouts), or maps they find with notes on them, and the like:
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    BtW: Does anybody know of a dingbat font for map icons? Like a font that has castles, towers, cities, boats, sea monster, compass rose, etc, etc... I think that would be really useful because of a font's vector scalebility.
    The Autorealm font has map symbols. And I don't have a copy of the font now (used to). I think it comes bundled with the freeware.

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