First off, go ahead and laugh at my sentence. I could not remember the exact sentence that is used to represent all the letters in the alphabet so I made up my own sentence. It's similar to the classic sentence. But, please don't post the classic sentence if you know it. This will cause me much stress and I'll have to kick myself for not remembering what it was in the first place. :)

I realized I had way too many fonts in my font folder. Over 600 fonts. So I started going through it and taking out the fonts I don't use and putting them in a font-holding-folder. (Never just delete them.) You might want to use them again at some point. Plus you put a lot of time and effort into finding them. I quickly saw that I had a lot of fonts that were very similar and some were exactly alike. So I decided to type them out in a sentence and label them so I could figure out which ones to keep and which ones to put in the holding folder.



This is my font guide. I make icons, so this guide is mostly, not totally, based on which fonts will work best in icons. I have used the smallest font size possible in which each font can still be read, and also looks the most clear and smooth. This was done in Photoshop:CS2 and I used the "sharp" font setting. I'm not saying all these fonts will work, but looking at the guide you will quickly see which fonts are still legible and look smooth even when they are tiny.

You will not find every single font out there in this guide. These are just the fonts that are/were in my font folder.

This is a visual guide. You can look at similar fonts all on one page, see the name of the font and the size I used to type it on the guide. Print out the sheets or copy them to your computer. You may or may not agree with how I have categorized the fonts. I agree that some fonts from the "DecoLoopy" page could be at home in the "Fancy" page and vice versa etc. But it would have been too much to put everything on one sheet, so I separated them as best I could and gave them some descriptive names.

Please do not hotlink these guide sheets. Copy them to your computer or save this entry in your favorites.

So far I have just done the Script Fonts that were on my computer. I will get to the other fonts eventually.

Script Fonts
Upright Fonts are fonts like: Alison, Memento, Fiolex Girls, Ohio Script.
DecoLoopy Fonts are fonts like: CAC Pinafore, BlackJack, Saginaw, Carpenter.
Fancy Fonts are fonts like: Old Script, Romance, Velvet.
Flingy Fonts are fonts the have loops and swashes coming off the letters, like: Scriptina, Bickham Script, Albemarle Swash.
Scribbly Fonts are fonts like: Mystical, CK Maternal, Hannibal Lecter, SameSexMarriage.

Click on the thumbnail to go to each page.






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