Barbaric Lite - the free Barbed Wire Font
There's only one commercial barbed wire font in release, and with due respect it's crap. Actually, to be honest, it's worse than crap. Hideous.. yeah, that's more the word. Anyhoo, there was me, trying to lay up artwork for a DVD, and they insisted on having the text in 'barb wire writing'. So I had to make it from scratch, and there it sat, as vectors, for a few months. Then something must've made it into the usual cocktail of drugs called breakfast, as I decided to finish it and give it away.
This is rare. Aeryn usually is not nice. I put it down to sunspots.
This is a pro-issue font, not like the usual kiddiescanned specials. It has optimised outlines, fully
classed metrics and kerning, and so as a result it's a little big, but I assume you believe that size
doesn't matter. It has the full ISO characterset with accents and special characters.
Do not remove the copyright from the files or I will personally remove your arms and make
you eat them, wet end first.
FontViewer
The full font is shown below in a Flash document. You can right-click on the font and select Zoom to inspect the characters at any magnification. Due to the limitations of Flash, the characters are reduced quality.
Download the files
Choose the type you want and download them here - if you're using Windows and you're not a professional designer then you'll want the TrueType file.
| Font Type | Description |
|---|---|
TrueType
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The version for Windows/Mac users, just download into a temporary folder and unzip. IMPORTANT!: Don't download directly into your Windows/Fonts folder. In order for Windows to 'install' a font, it must be copied into the Fonts folder from another folder on your computer and not saved there directly from the Internet. Such is Windows, such is life... |
How do I install the font(s)?
First right-click and unzip the TTF file from the table above. Best to save
it somewhere sensible but DO NOT save it directly to your fonts folder or it won't install!
Under Windows 98/Me/XP/2000, just dragging and dropping the file into your Windows Fonts folder
will install them (you usually see a little progress bar as it installs). Alternately, you can go to
Control Panel...Fonts and then click File.. Install new font. Browse to where you've saved the files, select
the one you wish to install and make sure 'Copy to Windows Fonts Folder' is ticked. Press OK and it's done!
What can I use it for?
The font is issued for personal use only (such as websites), and as a means to generate nonprofit printouts. No commercial sale of the font is permitted. If you wish to use the font in production of books, magazines, CD or DVD covers please ask me for permission first. You'll usually get it, but you have to ask.