Free Font Friday Drop your Anchor

Today's font is one of my favorite's! I have used it in several custom designs. It's also the featured font in our new upcoming design. It's called Return to Sender designed by Jeremy Dixon. 

It's relatively new in the font world. It been around since last November. I believe I was one of the first people to snatch it, I've been using it for just about a year now. I remember going on to Dafont's front page and it was featured in their "Recently Added" area. It was love at first site! I just had to have it! 

Drop your anchor is free for personal and non-profit use. Jeremy asks for a $5 donation for commercial use. You can download Return to Sender from Dafont.

Check back soon to see the new free design and how I use Drop your Anchor.

Enjoy - Michelle

Free Font Friday Return to Sender

Todays font was one I used in my LDS Baptism invitation I posted about last week. It's called Return to Sender designed by Tom Kolter.



I found this font perusing pinterest for chalkboard fonts. It came up a ton of times in other pins and blog posts about good chalkboard fonts. I thought it was just perfect for an invitation to a children's event. What do you think?

Return to Sender is free for personal use, but donations are always accepted. ANY commercial use requires a license, which is available for a fee. You can contact Tom for more information about that. You can download Return to Sender from Dafont.

What do you think of Return to Sender? What other uses do you think it would be good for?

Enjoy.

Free Font Friday - {Janda Elegant Handwriting}

Today the font I am sharing with you is the font I used in the When the Son Arose... Easter poster from Monday.

The font is Janda Elegant Handwriting by Kimberly Geswein of Kimberly Geswein Fonts.

If you like this font take a look at her website. She has a ton of fonts all of them are just as pretty as this one.

Janda Elegant Handwriting font is free for personal use but Kimberly asks that you donate $5 for commercial use. You can download it from DaFont or from Fontspace.

Free Font Friday - {Jenna Sue}

It's been a while since we've presented a free font. Last one we presented was celtic garamond in february. Sorry about that.

 Today's free font was one I used in revision fitnesses redesign.

I really love this font. It was created by Jenna Sue of Jenna Sue Designs (jennasuedesign.blogspot.com). She says in her blog post about the font - "I'm slightly obsessed with typography (it's my favorite part of design!), so making my own font has always been on my radar of things to do." You can read more about it on her design blog.

It's 100% free to use for commercial and personal use. "That's right, FREE. 100% Free, for any project. No need to ask permission... just use it! Enjoy :)"  You can download it at Dafont.com.

Thank you Jenna, we really love the font.

Free Font Fridays - {Celtic Garamond}

Today is the third installment of our Free Font Fridays. Today, I present to you the font that I used in my Disney Pixar Brave valentines and my daughters sixth birthday party invitation.

I chose this font for both the invitation and the valentine because it feels very celtic and it's super easy to read. I had found some other fonts that were a little more stylized but were not as easy to read. After all my target audience is 5 and 6 year olds. Plus, you can't go wrong with anything in the Garamond family.

You can download Celtic Garamond from dafont, fontzone, fontspace, or fonts4free. If there is a site you prefer to use over another than download it from there, otherwise here is a link to download it from dafont. *This is free for personal use only. If you plan to sell something using this font you'll have to pay. 

Here is a reminder of one of the cute valentine cards I used it in.

and here is the invitation I made using the font.

What do you think?

Enjoy.

Free Font Fridays - {Antrokas Font}

It's our second installment of Free Font Fridays!

Today we are presenting a font that basically is the new face of Loving Life Designs

The font is Antrokas.

It's an elegant script font created by Rokas Cicenas. It's available for free download here at dafont. I have loved this font since I first saw it a few years back. I instantly downloaded it, but never could figure out the perfect design to use this font with. This font is defiantly meant to be used lightly, meaning designs that don't require a lot of text. Perfect for logos or headlines. Hence the reason we used it for our new logo and throughout the new blog.

Michelle 

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Lobster Two - {Free Font Friday}

Loving Life Designs is getting a Ginormous overhaul. Not only are we changing the look of the blog. But we are also overhauling the posts. The one major thing that was lacking in 2012 was regular posts. The two of us have made a resolution to post more and we think that if we have themes to post about we'll post more often.

Starting with.....

The plan is that on Friday, Michelle and I will present to you a new free font that we just can't get enough of.

Today's font is that font that you see every where. AND I mean everywhere. I've seen it on TV, in magazines, on billboards. You name it I've seen it there. I've never known a font to blow up in popularity like this one has. That's right you, guessed it, Lobster Two.

Isn't it a beauty? We just love using it in our own designs.  Here are a few of our designs where we use lobster two.

Here is a funny article that goes into detail about the misuse/overuse of this font. http://www.mishes.com/articles/lobster-font-abuse

I love the collage of images with all the sites, articles, magazines that have used the font. 

{images via http://www.mishes.com}

To download the font click here.

To check out other fonts from this designer, check out their website here.

 Enjoy the font, try not to go over board, like us and the rest of the designing world. :)

UPDATE - Jan 31, 2013
 I was watching HGTV last night and during one of their commercials I noticed Lobster Two font being use. See, it's every where!