Freedom City: The display typeface

The font called Freedom City was inspired by Phil Geusz’ novel of the same title. As such, it’s a brash, clear-cut, futuristic typefont that’s very much ‘in your face’; it’s supposed to draw attention to whatever text you set in it. That’s why Freedom City is what typographers call a ‘display font’, best used at larger sizes for titles and headlines. Freedom City comes in five weights, i.e. five different levels of ‘boldness’:

Freedom City being a display font, it contains far fewer characters than one usually expects of fonts intended for use in the main body of a document. Specifically, the Freedom City character set consists of the uppercase alphabet and the ten digits. Unlike some other ‘all caps’ fonts, Freedom City gives you the uppercase version of a letter no matter whether you typed it in upper- or lower-case; this means Freedom City doesn’t punish you with that irritating ‘missing character’ rectangle just because you forgot to hit the Caps Lock key.

If you’re the kind of person who judges word processing and page layout software by how well it does kerning, you’ll be pleased to know Freedom City is fully kerned; that is, its letter-spacing takes into account the fact that some pairs of letters can be a lot closer together than others. Here are a few examples of Freedom City’s kerning in action:

   Freedom City is available for both Macintosh and PC computers. Regardless of which breed of computer you prefer, you can purchase this font in either of the two major font formats—PostScript (PS) or TrueType (TT)—for a mere 99 cents US money!
   Or, if you’d like to play with the font before you pay out even its (quite reasonable) under-a-dollar price, go ahead and download the bitmapped version of Freedom City. Like all bitmapped fonts, this free version of Freedom City is best used at a limited number of different sizes (in this case: 12, 18, 24, 36, and 48 points), as your computer has to ‘guess’ what the letterforms should look like at any other size. Nevertheless, the bitmapped version of Freedom City has all the characters and the same kerning as the TrueType/Postscript versions—and if you decide you like it, you need only buy the PS or TT version to make all your Freedom City-using files look better! Freedom City, the font, is there for you at ANTHRO Press—and so is a high-quality world of anthropomorphic art and literature.

Freedom City for Macs
Freedom City for PCs
99 cents:
Free:
PostScriptTrueType
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99 cents:
Free:
PostScriptTrueType
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