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Hi. I'm Gordon, and I have a fascination for the beautiful art behind font designs. While the importance of fonts to the asthetics and appeal of a product, logo, or webpage may be often overlooked, well-designed fonts can enhance the desired theme of a presentation.

I don't remember when my fascination for fonts began. Perhaps there wasn't really any starting point. Instead, it was probably a gradual development of interest for this area. One thing is for sure though - the formation of an official general fonts fan site was long overdue. So here I go. Inspired by the wonderful variety of beautiful professionally designed fonts, I bring you GordeonBleu Fonts.

-Gordon Mei, November 16, 2004

Intro: The Fonts of GordeonBleu
Over the years, the standard font style I used across GordeonBleu pages changed. Examples include Verdana 10pt, Tahoma 10pt, Tahoma 8pt, Verdana 8pt, and Lucida Grande 8pt. Remnants of earlier font styles, like Jester and Mead Bold, linger around in various GordeonBleu sections that I have not updated lately. Also, with my somewhat recent acceptance of anti-aliasing, (after three years of shying away from it), I find myself designing webpages with anti-aliasing in mind, especially for Mac OS X (whose anti-aliasing is far superior to Windows XP's ClearType).

Of course, I've always had to keep alternative fonts in mind for webpages, just in case a user does not have the first font in the list. I usually try to choose a standard font as at least the second, so my lines usually look something like: font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans serif. (when I'm displaying sans serif fonts anyway).

I keep telling myself that I'll try to learn how to create a font set. There might be freeware or shareware out there, but I haven't looked hard. But until I do, I'll continue to collect and admire...fonts.

Downloads: Fonts Used In GordeonBleu
GordeonBleu's pages don't use most of these fonts anymore. The pages now primarily use only more standard fonts like Verdana and Courier New, and more common fonts like Tahoma and Mac OS X's Lucida Grande. However, I keep these fonts available in case you ever come across old GordeonBleu pages. If you lack these fonts, download them here. If the preview shows up as Times New Roman (or whatever default font you have), you probably don't have the font.

Font Name	File Names	Zip Size	Font Preview
Lucida Grande	lucida grande.ttf	154 KB	Lucida Grande
Tahoma	tahoma.ttf	152 KB	Tahoma
Jester	jester.ttf	37 KB	Jester
Snap ITC	snap____.ttf	40 KB	Snap ITC
Tempus Sans ITC	tempsitc.ttf	49 KB	Tempus Sans ITC
Kristen ITC	itckrist.ttf	43 KB	Kristen ITC
Mead Bold	meadbold.ttf	42 KB	Mead Bold
Libra BT	tt0690m_.ttf	26 KB	Libra BT
Hobo BT	tt0057m_.ttf	35 KB	Hobo BT
Verdana (mac)	verdana.ttf verdanab.ttf verdanai.ttf verdanaz.ttf	336 KB	Verdana
Comic Sans MS (mac)	comic.ttf comicbd.ttf	164 KB	Comic Sans MS
Courier New (mac)	cour.ttf courbd.ttf courbi.ttf couri.ttf	640 KB	Courier New
Georgia (mac)	georgia.ttf georgiab.ttf georgiai.ttf georgiaz.ttf	376 KB	Georgia
Trebuchet MS (mac)	trebuc.ttf trebucbd.ttf trebucbi.ttf trebucit.ttf	172 KB	Trebuchet MS
Arial (mac)	arial.ttf arialbd.ttf arialbi.ttf ariali.ttf	568 KB	Arial
Arial Black (mac)	ariblk.ttf	72 KB	Arial Black
Impact (mac)	impact.ttf	80 KB	Impact
Times New Roman (mac)	times.ttf timesbd.ttf timesbi.ttf timesi.ttf	672 KB	Times New Roman
Apple Garamond	applegaramond.ttf applegaramond-bold.ttf applegaramond-bolditalic.ttf applegaramond-italic.ttf applegaramond-light.ttf applegaramond-lightitalic.ttf	28 KB	Apple Garamond
Lucida Sans Unicode	l_10646.ttf	180 KB	Lucida Sans Unicode
Chicago	chicago.ttf	33 KB	Chicago

These fonts are compressed inside .zip files. To read these files, use apps like: WinZip, WinRAR, or StuffIt Expander. The font files inside the .zip files go into the \Windows\Fonts directory. This, of course, is assuming that you have Windows. I apologize that I don't have all these fonts in the Mac or the Linux flavors. And your computer should already have standard browser fonts like Times New Roman, Courier/Courier New, Arial/Helvetica, Verdana, and (usually) Tahoma.

Handwriting Fonts: Fonts From The Hand of Gordon
For years, on and off, I'd wanted to create my own font, and in June 2005, I finally had the chance. Using a tablet computer and a font program called the My Font Tool powertoy for Windows XP Tablet Edition, I was able to create my first font. However, the font became jagged once I compiled it. I'm still working on somehow smoothing it out, if the program lets me. I also haven't yet figured out how to create fonts for Mac OS X. Anyway, I'm not going to release the compiled font file until I've fixed it up first.

- June 20, 2005