Andrew Ferguson

Awesome Free Fonts

Sometimes I wonder how I stumble upon such things. In this case, it was five steps:

1. Three of my feeds blogged about a site called Wordie. Critical mass was reached, so I checked it out.
2. On my Wordie profile page, it ask for an “onomatopoeia that best describes you.” I picked Bam.
3. Wanting to know more about onomatopoeia’s, I Google’d it and click on the Wikipedia entry.
4. At the bottom of wiki article, under the “External Links” section, was page for “Tutorial on Drawing Onomatopoeia (Sound Effects) in Cartoons“.
5. The tutorial site listed “a free sound effect font named “Badaboom,” available for free from Blambot.”

Here’s the cool cartoon sound effect I made:

Here’s the cool cartoon font site with lots of free fonts:
http://www.blambot.com/