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Seeking inspiration for your digital muse without resorting to your pocketbook or expending hours of searching to find a free equivalent? To those whom Courier, Times New Roman and Arial fonts are anathema maranatha, and line-drawn, “unstylized” clip art blasphemy, here’s an alphabetized compendium of the best open source and/or public domain resources for desktop publishers, photographers, web designers, graphic designers, and yes, even we lowly and highly underrated bloggers.
FONTS
fontsquirrel.com
FONTSQUIRREL (www.fontsquirrel.com) The Holy Grail of public domain typefaces, FontSquirrel compiles professional typefaces that are 100% free for commercial use. Search by typeface name, popularity and recency. Web generator enables copy to be previewed prior to downloads.
google.com/fonts
GOOGLE FONTS (www.google.com/fonts) Enjoy quite a few drool-worthy open source typefaces that optimized for web usage. Search by typeface name, alphabet, characteristics, # of styles available, trending, popularity and date added. Preview copy by word, sentence, paragraph or poster.
HTML (WYSIWYG) EDITORS
w3.org/amaya
AMAYA (www.w3.org/amaya) This an open source project is a web editor hosted by W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium). It began as an HTML + CSS editor and has evolved to support XML and XML applications (e.g. XHTML family, MathML, SVG).
kompozer.net
KOMPOZER (www.kompozer.net) KompoZer is complete, intuitive and combines web authoring with web file management with WYSIWYG web page functionality. Available for Windows and Linux, KompoZer simplifies creation of professional-looking websites without learning HTML. Read on! →
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