It's just too risky going about finding free fonts online. The benefits of paying for Lido STF™ are that you get the license, and if you're caught using it illegally there could be some potential legal implications with the publisher of this particular typeface.įurthermore, when searching "free downloads" on Google, most websites will say they have them but these types of offers usually come at a cost - either something like high-pressure sales tactics or getting tricked into downloading malware onto your computer by malicious third parties who want access to all your personal information! It is always best to pay for a premium font rather than trying to find an illegal download. You can find some other great options here on as well that will save you time looking around all over the web. If you want to use Lido STF™ then I suggest just paying for it and downloading Lido STF™ HERE.
You know the fonts on this site are premium, right? Lido STF™ is not a free font. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here. Here is a preview of how Lido STF™ will look. The Lido STF™ includes the following font families: It is rather meant as a reminder that there really are now alternatives to all fonts in all price categories. I should not like it if the issuing of this typeface were understood as an “act out of spite” aimed against the venerable Times. In order to prevent being suspected of additionally turning a rejected work into cash, Lido STF in six designs is available free of charge. I named the typeface dutifully “Lido” (after the name of the newspaper) and included it in the retail catalog of my type foundry. The intention to create condensed italics was abandoned in the case of serif typefaces they always seem to be slightly strained. Its three supplementary condensed designs correspond to approximately 80% compression and have been, of course, drawn quite separately. Our typeface, however, can sustain enlargement even to the size appropriate for a poster, an information table or a billboard, as it is not trite and at the same time is moderate in expression. This is typical of the typefaces designed for use in small sizes. It has a fairly large x-height of lower case letters, shortened serifs and simplified endings of rounded strokes. It is also most convenient for everyday work in text editors and office applications. The typeface is suitable for all periodicals wishing to abandon inconspicuously the hideous system typefaces with their even more hideous accents and to change over to the contemporary level of graphic design. The final appearance of Lido STF was, however, tuned up without regard to the original assignment – the merrier-looking italics and the more daring modelling of bold lower case letters have been retained. The printing tests have proved that the basic design of this typeface is even more legible and economical than that of Times. Many tests were carried out directly on the newspaper rotary press during which numerous weak points of the earliest versions were revealed.
When I was designing Lido, the cooperation with the head of production of Lidové noviny was of great use to me. And that is why the above-mentioned daily will continue to be printed by a system version of Times, negligently adjusted to local conditions, which is unfortunately a far cry from the original Times New Roman of Stanley Morison. The typeface itself definitely profited from this I simplified everything which could be simplified, but it still was not “it”, because the other, and obviously more important, requirement of the investor held: “the typeface must look like Times”. A year later Lidové noviny had a different manager who in the spring of 2001 decided to resume the cooperation.
The assignment, which was on the whole wisely formulated, was to design a typeface which would enable “a smooth flow of information in the reader’s eye”, therefore a typeface without any artistic ambitions, from which everything which obstructs legibility would be eliminated. The work, however, finally resulted in the complete re-drawing of the typeface. My task was to design a modification of the existing Times. Times with a Human Face: In my article of the same name which appeared in the magazine Font, volume 2000 I described the long and trying story of an order for a typeface for the Czech periodical Lidové noviny (People’s Newspaper).
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