I know the above strapline is going to give readers excuse to mock me beyond all belief, I am highlighting a secret ambition amongst many of us. You really would like to be able to type in the font that was used on so-and-so’s album cover or the latest blockbuster movie. What could be cooler than to have all of your emails to your friends in, well the original Friends series font? Or typing a document in some funky font discovered on the latest High School Musical movie (can’t believe I just said that in print, there will be consequences I’m sure).

Well people now you can. Look on the internet and they are everywhere. I found a particularly well stocked site that has a fantastic compilation of films, artist’s fonts available for you to instantly download. It also has a free text space for you to type in whatever text you wish and see what it will look like when using the chosen font. What could be more fun than seeing your name appear like Beyonce’s?

This could be incorporated into the design of clothing or accessories, giving them a personal yet famous look that will be instantly recognised and admired.

Tee Boy

Many of our customers come in without an idea of what font there would like to use on their t-shirt designs, a few comments we hear quite a lot are, “oh just use something bold”, or “like the one on that tv programme” or (Cringe), “we usually use Comic Sans”!…well personally I like to be a little more experimental and adventurous. I like fun, funky and different fonts that set your t-shirt apart from anyone else’s, there are countless numbers of fonts out there (believe me, I have scrolled though them all), the internet (wonderful invention!) has millions of them just waiting to be found!

Seen a font you like on a website? Like the look of something and want to use it?! Joe kindly pointed me in the direction of Whatthefont, a site that has an amazing facility that allows you to capture a font from elsewhere (copy and save as a JPEG or BMP etc) and upload it onto the site and it will tell you what it is or as close a match as it can find… Marvellous!

If however you can’t find what you’re looking for, there are plenty of font sites out there, just do some searching.

Happy font finding

Just found a wicked new font website, a forum for all font designers or for those of us who want something a little different to feature on our t-shirts or just to play with on Word or MSN etc…just download, pop into your fonts file on your C drive and voila! You are instantly typing in your fave Klingon font (ahem..)

Take a look!

Hi! and welcome to our blog. As you can see we’ve recently re-launched our website and added a few extras just to keep it interesting, including a fabulous and informative blog (obviously), which hopefully we’ll be updating every day with news, ideas and hopefully not too many pointless ramblings!

Well, unless you are a complete hermit, don’t watch TV or have left the planet, as you will no doubt know, it’s Christmas!! Countdown stands at 10 days, so I’m racking my brain and stressing out trying desperately to get the perfect gifts for my friends and family, which in this time of the dreaded Credit Crunch/Recession(GULP!) is all the more terrifying when you make that brave journey into the unknown (also known as the High Street) we at Reinspire.co.uk have been pleasantly surprised to learn that a few of you have decided to go a little further this year and actually have something made for your loved ones, mainly in the form of something to wear! In the last few weeks we’re produced a few t-shirts and hoodies with various puns and well wishing slogan’s along with some pretty embarrassing photographs! This novel approach is a sweet and personal touch that let’s face it, as embarrassing or “naff” as it could be, is a great gesture and it is pretty nice to know that someone made the effort, that you have a one of a kind present that no one else has

(oh and that you have an extra t-shirt to add to your wardrobe to wear around the house that no one else will ever see on those days when the laundry is being done and there’s nout much left to wear!) unless of course the gift giver has particularly gone to some lengths to make your t-shirt something fun, funky and wearable in public!

I have seen some amazing designs cropping up recently on t-shirts, whilst searching for presents of course (no harm in looking for things for yourselves now is there?!). A new range recently hyped at Republic aptly named “Money”, nice, simple and fun range of t’s with a metallic and edgy finish on them, some literally with MONEY written across the front in various funky fonts and colours…whether they’re trying to be ironic or perhaps referring to the price of the garments is anyone’s guess but according to the site, a number of celebs seem to have cottoned on to the label and are loving it…and it occurred to me, that pretty much anyone with an idea could potentially have the next trendy label on their hands…Criminal, G Star, Superdry.. they all started somewhere and now look at them…so come on guys, get designing and let us know if Reinspire.co.uk can be of any help!?! Hint hint!