Misprinted Type

My sister Pam [works in a shop, she never stops, she’s a go-getter... oh, sorry], who runs a popular blog on crafting, turned me on recently to some very cool freeware typefaces called Misprinted Type. They’re very reminiscent of some of the sloppier old T-26 fonts (particularly the five commercial fonts offered for sale), but less fanciful and far more usable.

They’re designed by a Brazilian artist by the name of Eduardo Recife, crafted with Macromedia Fontographer and available in TrueType format for both Mac and PC (Windows TrueType fonts work perfectly well in Mac OS X incidentally). And they’re free!

My favorites are Nasty, Porcelain and Selfish, but they’re all pretty great and cover a fairly wide variety of styles (script, gothic, typewriter, etc.). Check them out here.