About
FontHero.com is currently in public beta
Fonts, Reimagined
Fonts shape how we experience words - they carry tone, emotion, and personality. Well-chosen fonts elevate your graphical creations and allow them to really shine. Yet despite their importance, fonts remain surprisingly difficult to browse and discover.
Typical font sites show you 10-20 crippled specimens in seemingly random order, have limited & inconsistent catalogs, are slow to load, and use complicated licensing terms that make it hard to know what you're allowed to do.
Font Hero solves these problems: hundreds of instantly updating custom specimens organized by vibe, more than a million fonts with consistent & broad character sets, blazingly fast load times, and simple licensing:
All fonts are free for commercial use while in beta.
After the beta, we will offer simple and reasonable terms for future use.
Styles, Variants, Characters
Font Hero’s catalog of over one million fonts offers both a diverse range of styles and myriad nuanced variations.
By organizing the fonts by vibe, you can quickly drill down to promising stylistic pockets. Each font page then offers rich cross-linking to help you find a font that gets the details just right.
All fonts include a consistent set of 255 Unicode characters that cover the majority of Latin-based languages. The fonts are delivered as TrueType Font (TTF) files, ensuring wide compatibility across platforms and applications.
AI
Generative AI tools typically depend on text prompts and are slow to deliver results - a poor fit for fonts, where descriptive language is both obscure and imprecise. And who wants to wait?
So instead, we pre-generated a vast catalog for instant, visual font browsing, greatly simplifying the process for the end user.
One of the most delightful results of this project has been the success of the vibe space in quantifying semantic similarity among fonts. Rather than rely on the often arbitrary and inconsistent tags typically used, we use the vibe space to organize the catalog.
Legal
We have trained a proprietary generative AI model from scratch using a dataset of non-copyrighted raster specimens.
While some fonts on this site may appear similar to pre-existing fonts, we have taken great care to not actually reproduce any font in our training set.
Looking Ahead
We're just getting started, and can't wait to show you what we're cooking up next - stay tuned!
Team
Cedar Lake Ventures, Inc. is a small company based in the Minneapolis area. We develop, own, and operate a portfolio of web sites, interactive web-based tools, desktop software, and web APIs.
JAMES DIEBEL
Born and raised in Wisconsin, James lived in the San Francisco Bay Area from 2003 to 2014 and presently resides in suburban Minneapolis. He holds a bachelor's degree in Engineering Mechanics and Astronautics, and Mathematics from University of Wisconsin, and a Masters and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University.
James Diebel started the research project that led to Vector Magic, Cedar Lake Ventures' first website, as a graduate student at Stanford University.
JACOB NORDA
Born and raised in Sweden, Jacob has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2001. He holds a Master's in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics from Linköping Institute of Technology, one year of which was spent on a scholarship at Stanford University.
Jacob worked as a software engineer at Rosum Inc (now defunct), a geolocation startup in 2001/2002, then moved on to Trimble Navigation, first as a software engineer and subsequently software manager. After four and half years there he teamed up with James Diebel on the research project that led to Vector Magic, Cedar Lake Ventures' first website.
DANI SCHAUB
Born and raised in Minnesota, Dani played Division 2 College Basketball at Concordia University, St. Paul while earning her Undergraduate Degree in Elementary Education. She then continued her basketball career at the University of Sioux Falls in South Dakota, where she completed her Master’s in Business Administration.
Websites
Font Hero
Hundreds of instantly updating custom specimens organized by vibe, more than a million AI fonts with consistent & broad character sets, blazingly fast load times, and simple licensing.
The best way to find your next font!
Vectorizer.AI
Powerful deep learning based raster to vector conversion - just upload your JPEG/PNG image and get it vectorized to SVG/EPS/PDF/DXF right away.
Great for digital graphics and all forms of printing, embroidery, signage and more.
Weather Spark
In-depth weather reports give you the full scoop on what the weather is typically like in any location - a great resource for trip and event planning.
Statistical Atlas
DEMOGRAPHIC REPORTS FOR THE UNITED STATES
Detailed demographic information presented in charts and maps across all geographical levels of the United States, ranging from the entire nation down to the block group.
Topics include race, ethnicity, ancestry, income, employment, educational attainment, and more.
Vector Magic
Fully automatic bitmap to vector conversion in one convenient website - just upload your bitmap logo and get it vectorized in a matter of seconds.
Great for all forms of printing, embroidery, signage and more.
Clipping Magic
Instantly remove image backgrounds online, fully automatically and with a Smart Editor to get just the right result.
Super convenient for e-commerce product shots, marketing materials, and more.
Pix Fix
Pix Fix cleans up image JPEG compression artifacts, grainy scans, and other image noise, all while preserving sharp edges and other real details.
Completely free to use and ad-free.
Pix Spy
Pix Spy is your handy image inspection multi-tool. Measure, Eye-drop, Crop and more.
Completely free to use and ad-free.
Recompressor
Recompressor optimally compresses image files, with full online preview, and without your files ever leaving your browser.
Completely free to use and ad-free.
Pixian.AI
Fully automatic background removal in one convenient website - just upload your image and get the background removed in seconds.
Super convenient for e-commerce product shots, marketing materials, and more.
QR Codes
THE EASIEST WAY TO DIGITALLY CONNECT WITH PEOPLE YOU MEET
Create "Scan To Message Me" SMS / Email / WhatsApp QR Codes to digitally connect with people you meet: have them scan your QR code to immediately send you a message.
Great for conferences and networking events.
Sol Scout
SUNSHINE AUGMENTED REALITY APP
Augmented Reality app that helps you determine when a spot will be in the sun or in the shade.
Great for siting flowers & solar panels, for photography, outdoor event planning, real estate, and more.
Completely free to use and ad-free.
Ask Geo
LOCATION TO INFORMATION API & LIBRARY
Ask Geo provides a simple, fast, and accurate Web API and Java & .NET Libraries for getting relevant information based on a location (latitude, longitude).
The flagship API provides an accurate time zone identifier for any latitude and longitude on earth.
Cedar Lake Ventures
BILLING AND ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT
CedarLakeVentures.com is a billing and account management service for web properties owned by Cedar Lake Ventures, Inc..
This provides a smooth and uniform login and billing experience across our sites.
Contact
THE BEST WAY TO REACH US IS BY EMAIL AT:
support@fonthero.com
OUR ADDRESS IS:
Cedar Lake Ventures, Inc.
2500 Shadywood Rd Ste 510
Excelsior, MN 55331-6203
United States
THE PHONE NUMBER FOR OUR VOICEMAIL IS:
+1 415 230 2377
