GordeonBleu Fonts - By Gordon Mei

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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.

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