Way back in 1994, the dawn of the web era, Fonthead was born. The first font collection was created and then advertised alongside a free font that was posted to the now defunct(?) Info-Mac FTP servers. Two years later our first real website went up.

Our site has undergone a few revisions. The latest round was in the works for a very long time. I am quite glad to have the bulk of it behind me! Enjoy the trip down memory lane…

This post was inspired by this post at Veerle’s Blog.

A new book called Free Font Index is being published in January 2009 and will feature some of our free fonts. The author, Hans Lijklema, forwarded me some spreads from the book.

This makes me feel like I should get back to making some freeware. It has been a very long time since I last released a free font.

I have taken quite a bit of time away from developing new fonts, I know. The last volume I produced was in 2004. My family has grown with the arrival of triplets in 2006 making our lives so crazy it has been hard to keep our heads above water. All is well now. Here is the latest scoop:

All Fonthead fonts have been converted to Opentype.
Redesigned the entire site from the ground up.
Released Volume 10.

Hope you like the new Fonthead. We plan to be busy from now on. Thanks for your support!