In the rapid e-Learning space, it’s always important to stand out in the crowd, and now your PowerPoint presentations will with these helpful Friday Finds. This week, you’ll discover free fonts to boost your presentation from one-in-a-million to one-of-a-kind. Use custom fonts to suit your Snap! by Lectora project specifically, or even create your own handwritten font for extra personalization. Here are some suggestions of free font sites provided by a real-life graphic designer that can help add liveliness that your learners crave.

Free Downloadable Fonts

Font Squirrel

Pick your favorite serif or sans serif font from this site. Whether you’re looking for something funky or something conventional, you can download your choice instantly for free and improve the aesthetics of your presentation.

DaFont

You may be familiar with this site, as it is quite popular. You can choose one font individually, or one from a themed group. Depending on your learners’ interest, you’ll be able to find the text that is most relevant and entertaining.

Simply the Best Fonts

Browse through the alphabetical font categories to view free fonts, and each one has a full preview page with proprietary details. Most fonts are freeware and are free to use for developers. It’s helpful to have an idea of what you’re looking for before visiting this site because the fonts are listed in groups.

Fonts500

View the top 500 fonts from across the web on this font-aggregating site. The list is calculated based on download counts from some of the web's biggest free font archives. With such a substantial variety, you’re sure to find just what you’re looking for.

Customizable Fonts

YourFonts

YourFonts.com is an online font generator that allows you to create your own OpenType fonts within minutes. Add personality to your PowerPoint presentations by creating a font based on your own handwriting! Just write it out, scan it to your computer, upload it to the site, save and then download it to your desktop. But, there’s a catch for the heightened creativity—$9.95, which includes as many fonts as you can produce.

FontStruct

Build, share and download fonts! FontStruct lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern.This site is great for tech-savvy designers!

Stay Organized!

MyFontBook

Once you’ve downloaded all your chosen fonts from these sites, you may still be undecided on which one to put in your rapid e-Learning presentation. With myFontbook.com, you can upload all of your fonts and see them laid out in an organized fashion—straight from your browser. You can conduct a side-by-side comparison to ensure that the right font is selected for your enticing presentation.

With thousands of fonts to choose from between these sites, your Snap! by Lectora presentation will surely stand out because of its uniqueness. Given the right resources, you can easily customize projects and make your PowerPoint to Flash presentations representative of you.

Furthermore, we’d like to congratulate this week’s Friday Fan, Miles Corbett, Director of Transition Associates! Thank you, Miles, for your rave review of Snap! by Lectora on LinkedIn:

“Personally I prefer to use Lectora when I need a purpose-designed authoring tool, and I am pleased to now have Snap if I want to create in Powerpoint…[I can] either add [content] as a page within Lectora or just publish straight to web, social media or LMS depending on my need. 

I think Snap has the right price point for a Powerpoint add in…[Snap! by Lectora] is true to a very clear vision and price point [that is] relevant to it's functionality and value. [You can] share Powerpoint as Flash without any technical skills or complexity in any environment you want.”

Heather Thomas is the Social Media Lead at Trivantis Corporation. She is a senior public relations student at Kent State University and is interested in corporate PR and social media. She enjoys traveling,  reading and writing.