FontSpot.com - Font Type Descriptions

We put together this font guide to help you locate fonts on FontSpot.com. * To keep the number of font categories low we have combined certain related font categories into one general category that we feel best represents the font group.

3D & Shadow Fonts

3D and Shadow fonts are fonts with extra lines or shading that give font characters depth or makes them look raised from the page.

Bold & Poster Fonts

Bold and poster fonts are heavier fonts that provide greater visibility at all sizes.

Brush Fonts

Brush fonts have the appearance of being painted on the page with a brush.

Calligraphy Fonts

Calligraphy is a style of art that uses varying width strokes of a pen or brush to create the characters in the font in a fashion that is easily identifiable as calligraphy.

Comic Fonts

We define comic fonts as any font used in the creation of a comic book including titles, logos, and the text that appears in speech balloons.

Curly Fonts

Most curly fonts have curls on the end points of the font character instead of serifs or square ends. Curly fonts have a whimsical, happy look about them and are popular for scrapbooking.

Digital Fonts

Our digital font category combines several styles of type found in digital and electronic displays including LCD style, block and dot digital style, marquee styles, and futuristic looking font styles.

Retro Fonts

In the retro category you will find fonts that represent a period in history such as old english, deco, etc.

Fantasy Fonts

Fantasy fonts are associated with the fantasy genre of books and movies. Many have a medieval or mystical appearance.

Fun Fonts

Fun fonts on FontSpot.com are light-hearted wild, crazy or weird fonts that might make you smile.

Graffiti Fonts

Graffiti fonts mimic the graffiti font on surfaces around the world. If you want to add graffiti to digital artwork a graffiti font is the way to go.

Grunge Fonts

Grunge font characters typically have edges that are eroded, ink blots, paint spatters, drips, and other artifacts to make the font look rugged, distressed and dirty or trashy.

Scribble Fonts

Scribbled fonts are made completely from or contain scribbles. These fonts are related to grunge fonts and may contain much of the same characteristics.

Sketched Fonts

Sketched fonts are often hand drawn outline fonts that have been roughly shaded.

Handwriting Fonts

Handwriting fonts are often created by taking a handwriting sample from a person and turning it into a font. Handwriting fonts are seldom planned, measured or refined. The quality of the font is determined solely by the quality of the handwriting sample. This category includes cursive, printing, and kidprint style fonts.

Outline Fonts

These are outline fonts.

Pixel Fonts

These fonts go by many names - Pixel Fonts, Micro Fonts, Bitmap Fonts, Tiny Fonts, and several others. They are all fonts created to be displayed as small as possible. Viewing these fonts in normal font sizes does not produce good results. These fonts are more often used in digital art than in word processing documents.

Serif

A serif font is a font with decorations on the open ends of the font. In the image above the serifs are highlighted in red.

Sans Serif

A sans serif font is a font without decorations on the open ends of the font.

Script

Script fonts are much like handwriting fonts but are more likely to be planned, measured, and refined. Script fonts are often used for the text in greeting cards and advertising.

Elegant Script

Elegant script fonts may also be referred to as Invitation Fonts, Wedding Fonts, Formal Fonts, Anniversary Fonts, and others. These script fonts contain embellishments that give them a fancy formal look that many associate with romance, class, status and importance. These fonts are commonly used in greeting cards, invitations, diplomas and other documents.

Stencils

Stencil fonts look just like the stencils you purchase to quickly add letters and numbers to an object.

Scary

Scary fonts include all fonts and dingbats that most users would describe as scary, spooky, or dark themed in appearance.

Typewriter

Typewriter fonts are typically created by taking a sample from a typewriter and turning it into a font. Typewriter fonts often have a somewhat grungy look to them and are used most often to create digital art.

Dingbats

For the most part a dingbat font is a font that contains images of things, or things and letters together, but not just letters. Common dingbat fonts are fonts that contain shapes such as circles, squares, arrows, stars, etc. A common dingbat font widely used is Wingdings.

At this site you will find cartoon dingbats, music, sports, and shapes dingbats. We also have animal, flower, nature, and holiday theme dingbats - something for everybody!