I’d like to let all of my readers know about a new contest with $1000 in prizes up for grabs. Caleb from LostAndTaken has launched his first contest, and yours truly will be the judging the project. There are prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, and the theme is none other than the 2008 election. Submit your political poster designs to enter. Head on over to check out the details and the prizes. This should be a fun contest, good luck!

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I’ve got another free demo version font for everyone. It’s called Tire Shop. I include upper and lowercase in my demo fonts, but in this case, the lowercase is the same as the uppercase. However, I did include both upper and lower in the font file itself, so you won’t have to worry about using shift or capslock. I know I’ve been on a font binge lately, but hey, its a freebie right? Anyway, hope you can find a good use for it. :)

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It’s done! Conglomerfont is a free font created by myself and the design community from all over the world, on nearly every continent via email. I asked people to send individual letters to my inbox, and I coagulated the submissions into a single font, hence the name, Conglomerfont. Below you’ll find a list of all of the contributors, and a link to their websites. Thanks to everyone who participated, and if you didn’t get into the font this time around, don’t worry, I plan on doing another conglomerfont in the future. :)

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I was browsing the movie trailers on the Apple website the other day and stumbled onto a few of my vectors in one of the trailers. The movie is called “Inkheart.” It looks to be along the lines of The Chronicles of Narnia style movie, and it appears to be a pretty high budget film. Kinda neat to see one of my freebies in a high budget Hollywood film trailer. I’ll have to check out the film itself to see if they used anything else :)

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This is a project I’ve started here at BittBox as a community effort to create a free font so that everyone who’s willing can have a hand in the creation process. It will be a 100% free typeface, and anyone who wants to help can design a character/letter of their choosing. Let’s make history :) !!!!!

This is how it works:

Below, you’ll find a few tables with all of the characters slated to be a part of this community-created font. Items marked with an “X” have already been accounted for, everything else is free game. People (everyone besides me) can choose a character that they want to design, create a hand-drawn character, and email it to me in jpeg or tiff format to jhilgert00(at)gmail.com. I will then use my software (Font Lab Studio) and create a font from all of the individual submitted characters, and I’ll give it away for free, right here on BittBox. Bookmark this page if your are interested in contributing, I will be updating the list of characters often.

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