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Quicksand, a free sans serif typeface
Posted by alienbreed in
12 Oct 2008 — 9:35pm
12 Oct 2008 — 9:35pm
Hi everyone, I have just released my first typeface project for free. Not as good as most of the stuff in here but I'm hoping that you'll find it useful in some way.
You can grab a copy of it here: Quicksand
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12 Oct 2008 — 10:34pm
Thank you friend!
13 Oct 2008 — 4:50am
Nice, clean face. Thanks.
13 Oct 2008 — 5:06am
Glad you like it. Cheers..
13 Oct 2008 — 7:02am
Very nice. I like the R. Thanks!
13 Oct 2008 — 7:08am
Nice typeface. Tip: space the typeface well before kerning. The spacing is very, very bad.
Pieter
13 Oct 2008 — 11:01am
Pieter,
Thanks for the advice I'll keep that in mind on my next project. It's my first type design so should I say expect the worse? =)
15 Oct 2008 — 5:07am
What a lovely family! Thank you for sharing it.
15 Oct 2008 — 7:08am
Thanks for the free font.
Do you plan to add support for Cyrillic ?
15 Oct 2008 — 7:13am
Very nice. Thanks!
15 Oct 2008 — 10:16am
Thank you for that, nice font but there's nothing new in it, the design is very close to many other existing fonts :/
16 Oct 2008 — 5:11am
Very nice design for you first typeface!
Only, as Pieter said, the spacing is bad.
Keep up the good work! :)
Kind regards,
Martijn van Berkel
17 Oct 2008 — 5:53pm
"the design is very close to many other existing fonts :/"
"The spacing is very, very bad."
You obviously made a mistake - you should be selling the font, not giving it away ;-)
21 Oct 2008 — 6:58am
Looks like an elegant face. Just a heads up that your site is currently down. I look forward to trying it out, though.
—M
22 Oct 2008 — 5:43pm
Thanks for the font!
I like the wider spacing.
Thanks again..
23 Oct 2008 — 7:17pm
very bad,
why not do you tell everybody to know what's font you'v modified from.
i think is better than do like this.
23 Oct 2008 — 10:56pm
@DekThai
What are you talking about? This typeface was made from scratch and not a modified font. I can even show you the process of how I created all of the glyphs in Illu before exporting them in FL.
28 Oct 2008 — 7:40am
> DekThai
If you know similar font, please show this font for us.
5 Nov 2008 — 2:23pm
> why not do you tell everybody to know what’s font you’v modified from.
Oh, that's not nice :(
Andrew, this is nicely executed. I also like the wide tracking. Thank you for sharing :)
6 Nov 2008 — 11:31am
I like it! You’ve done a good job!
6 Nov 2008 — 5:44pm
ok, this is a first type i don't need say anymore.
and i have something to say,
"do not take any part from others font"
i wish you success.
24 Nov 2008 — 11:58am
just snatched it!
Must say, it's a lot better than many professional (expensive!) fonts.
Big thanks.
1 Dec 2008 — 3:18pm
thanks for this might come in handy
8 Dec 2008 — 5:26am
nice thankssssss :D
9 Jan 2009 — 5:15pm
Now there is absolutely no excuse to use Arial Rounded. Nicely done.
14 Jan 2009 — 9:49am
Thanks so much!
17 Jan 2009 — 12:03am
Thanks
2 Feb 2009 — 1:19am
I love this font. Thanks.
3 Feb 2009 — 1:23pm
Lovely. Nice. Clean.
Best regards.
4 Feb 2009 — 1:36am
looks like the characters consist out off single line, no contrast at all, well done!
26 Mar 2009 — 1:15pm
Just become a member, many thanks for the fonts always searching for new ones
Laters!
Graeme Foster
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17 Apr 2009 — 11:29am
Looks great. I'd love to download but the link is giving me an error about hosting being suspended?
18 Apr 2009 — 3:17am
Seems that Andrews hosting account is suspended. But Quicksand is still online at FONTSQUIRREL
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Flxb
18 Apr 2009 — 11:01pm
Once again thanks comrade, this is a good example
of a good free font for those who think otherwise
about free fonts.
Guerrizmo+Design
No man is an island unto himself_John Donne
11 May 2009 — 9:09am
Hi,
Beautiful font. I'd like to use it for a commercial project. I tried to find its license and on FontSquirrel it says it has none. Usually the fonts there are for commercial use.
So, could I use it? If yes, thank you, if no, how/where can I buy it? :)
Cheers.
13 May 2009 — 1:38am
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13 May 2009 — 9:21am
Hi Kenny,
Feel free to use it commercially as it is license free.
Cheers!
16 May 2009 — 3:16am
@allenbreed
Could you include a Euro-sign at least?
The lack of it limits the usage of the otherwise cool fonts somewhat, here in "Old Europe".
27 May 2009 — 12:59am
Thanks for the font! I used it for my little PDF Magazine. :D
22 Jun 2009 — 7:09am
Hi there,
Quicksand is a great font, I use it for my master thesis! But I have a question concerning the special characters. I use M$ Word 2007 and the strange thing is that the percent character won't show up in the dokument. The place where the % should be is simply blank. Has anybody got an idea why this happens? Also, if I put in the percent character Word tends to replace the font with Times New Roman, as if this specific character was missing in Quicksand. Pretty strange I'd say...Suggestions anyone? Thanks, Tom
22 Jun 2009 — 7:25am
Thank you very much for this font.
I think it's the best font ever made.
From the previous post I found it can be used in commercial projects.
I am using it In my Flash CMS as an embedded font in Droower Flash CMS and I add a comment about it Quicksand comment.
As I noticed that link http://www.andrewpaglinawan.com/ is broken I link resource I found it.
22 Jun 2009 — 8:12am
Moderators? That last comment smells like spam to me. (Feel free to delete this.)
24 Jun 2009 — 12:26pm
I was looking for a typeface to use in a logo I'm designing and I totally forgot I installed this! It's super clean. All this talk from DekThai without any actual proof is annoying...
best regards,
daniel
17 Jul 2009 — 10:31am
eata genia me encanta, es como medio retro, súper muchas gracias y FELICIDADES por tu excelente trabajo
31 Jul 2009 — 10:44am
i'm in love with this typeface but i couldn't get the copy :(
::REALM::
14 Aug 2009 — 12:03am
Thanks, I like it a lot. It's what attracted me to join this site, which Im now grateful that I have. They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but I live in hope.
18 Aug 2009 — 12:52am
Thank you. It´s very nice and clean :)
27 Aug 2009 — 5:48am
Preciosa!
4 Sep 2009 — 6:55pm
This is great. Thank you so much.
5 Oct 2009 — 11:45am
It's really nice, I'm just sad that the å ä ö are missing from the Dash variant.
5 Oct 2009 — 11:51pm
the lower case w seems a little out of place, and the spacing needs work but otherwise a great first attempt, thanks :)