Site: Da Font

by Chris on 09 February 2010

dafont.com A site, that funnily enough is a great place to search for free fonts to spice up your life/design.

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Pros

Da Bomb

It’s a pretty straight forward site as they go, the home page is nice and clean (a part from a triptych of ads mainly about mouths & teeth) where straight away you get to search through the tons of free fonts that have been generously uploaded by the public.

The font library is broken down into categories to save time when searching. We don’t know if it’s just us but the better font categories seem to be in the center of the page with the more ‘wacky/useless’ fonts pushed to both ends of the search shelf.

Each font is clearly labelled whether it’s for mac, PC or both and what the terms of using each font are (usually free for personal) so don’t go setting up a Kebab shop using OLD LONDON by Dieter Steffman as your new company typeface for 2 million flyers.

There are a few nice features to the site, such as being able to preview each typeface. So you can see if Wang’s Hardware Store looks eye catching in a lovely cartoon font before you hit download.

Cons

Da Shite

The font library has got to the point now where it is rather large and can get quite laborious sifting through page after page of Curly fonts and we would like to see a more in depth search function in place to help sort the sweet from the sheeet.

Whether this is achieved by more options in the search or more tags associated with each font there are a number of ways to do it. Something similar to how i-Tunes search works would be a good starting place, so a user could search by artist / family / date / popularity for example to cut down the time spent searching.

A more interactive element could make it more of a buzzing site, with user ratings, amount of downloads, where the font has been used etc. Instead of useless comments like ’ woooooooowowowow cool beans’ or ‘this sucks’

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