Fancy fonts

Fonts are a wonderful tool. When money is tight (as it so often is in education) and you want to produce interesting signs/learning materials/posters/badges, interesting or unusual fonts are indispensible. The standard Microsoft ones get used so often they become a tad yawnsville, overfamiliar, not cutting through to communicate.

With the explosion of popularity of scrapbooking, the availability of different fonts (some for $$, some for free) on the net has also widened. One site I've used is Scrapvillage - the fonts page in its library section has a bunch of good ones that are easy to download. Here's the link.

I'm not sure of copyright in relation to these - my use has been restricted to school-use materials. For published works, eg. for a book or some such, the printer may need to purchase rights.

We're about to make more Harmony Day badges, and it's the combination of eyecatching fonts and intriguingly patterned scrapbooking papers that makes them sell well - they're graphically interesting and varied.