Lots of old fashioned fonts here

[Doc]

The topic says it all...here's the link to a site that offers lots of free old fashioned fonts.
http://www.jmurphyjr.com/freefonts.html

Here's a little video I just completed as a sample using one of these fonts:
http://glewis.us/v7th_Recon/misc/silent.wmv

 

[Sean]

Great vid and neat fonts. Thanks.

 

[mmagikman]

Thank you, thank you very much.

 

[Welles]

Great font stash and a fun little video intro, too, Doc. For a nifty selection of Victorian and Circus fonts, look on eBay for Dover 'books' of fonts. They usually go for about $10 and have great collections of fonts. The 'books' merely are hard copy prints of the fonts themselves which are provided on CDs.

 

[Tanya]

Nice fonts there, Doc!

just as a FYI:
I went to the site but could not find out if they were true-type or Postscript or Open type. Given that they were free I assumed truetype - good for general but not for print publishing. I downloaded one and found it to be truetype.

The fonts are also only regular and have no bold or italics to them unless one's word processor is using them.
Tanya

 

[Red Rooster]

That movie is an oscar winner :surprised: neet fonts too doc

 

[Lee]

Thanks, Doc .

 

[Doc]

Thanks for the comments all...

I found the old fashioned font site while attempting to help a fellow member of a video editing message board I visit. They wanted a 'silent movie' style text background for a home movie they were doing. I created a blank background and used the davys wingding fonts for the borders. The fonts work well for adding text within my video editor at any rate. I also shared a 'movie projector' audio clip, a leader 'countdown' video clip plus a few midi files I converted to wav audio for a 'silent movie' theme. Those are the items I put together in the sample video above using Vegas 6 to edit and add the 'old film' look.

Know where I can locate additional old fashioned borders that I can use for a background in this way?

 

[Welles]

Hey Doc,

Go to FontFreak ( http://www.fontfreak.com/index2.htm ) and check out the Dingbat collection. Specifically look at...

Border Corners 1
Border Corners 2
Chay's Frames
Celtic Frames
DecoBorders
Edgers
Fleurons
Florals 2
Ornamenter 4 (actually all the Ornamenter series)
Seperates

 

[Doc]

Wow...thanks so much Welles...for not only the web link, but for taking the time to point out the dingbat fonts I had in mind. 8))

(I also grabbed 'vintage')

 

[Welles]

Wow...thanks so much Welles...for not only the web link, but for taking the time to point out the dingbat fonts I had in mind.? 8))

(I also grabbed 'vintage')

You're welcome, Doc. I used to be a fontaholic but hadn't looked through a dingbat stash in years so while I was there, I grabbed a few myself!