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Designers and developers – if you can’t find a particular font, and need it quick, here’s a way to find fonts fast and free from a simple google search. Type the following into your google search box:
intitle:”index.of”(ttf) arial.bold -html -php -asp -htm
Try a search and you should find a bunch of directories that contain arial bold font files., click one, and voila – you’re downloading it.
The breakdown of the above is this:
intitle:”index.of” – this is searching server indices for keywords in the title of the file.
(ttf) – this is the file type
arial.bold – these are the keywords of the file you are looking for, separated by dots.
-html -php -asp -htm – this is to avoid finding web pages. -html, means ‘ignore matches that end in .html’
Note: This method works with any file type. However, really popular ones like .mp3, don’t work so well, because people have caught on to this and make commercial sites that mimic what google is looking for, so it’s increasingly difficult to use this method for popular file types. It still works great for fonts though…
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