Looking for fonts or font tools? Substantial listings of the most notable type vendors, designers and foundries, commercial as well as some of the best free ones. Also some handy type management and ID tools + a few typography blogs, forums and organisations.
Online font shops:
fontshop.comfonts.com [Monotype]
linotype.com
myfonts.com
faces.com
Type designers and foundries:
Emigre.comfontsmith.com
typotheque.com
underware.nl
lineto.com
t26.com
garagefonts.com
village
cape-arcona.com
Some free fonts, some cheap
DSType foundry
fountain.nu
Some free fonts also available
Hofler & Frere-Jones
Jeremy Tankard Typography
lucasfonts.com [Luc de Groot]
joshuadarden.com
Free fonts:
www.betterfonts.comThe fast, userfriendly, no-nonsense interface makes this site worth a look
www.dafont.com
Comprehensive categories makes it fairly easier to find what you're after, and there's a handy character-map for each font so you can check if it includes any special characters and symbols you require
fontfoundry.com
[PC truetype format only]
larabiefonts.com
Fonts by the uncrowned king of the free font world: Ray Larabie
ekljbris
A handfull of high quality free fonts by Jos Buivenga
misprintedtype.com
Grunge fonts by Eduardo Recife
Pixel fonts:
aliasfonts
A nicely turned collection of pixel fonts which includes a type tester so you can check what your text would look like before you choose which one to download.
04.jp.org
A good range of interesting pixelfonts
Alvit.de: 25 best licence free pixelfonts
A list of the best free pixelfonts available, compliled by Vitaly Friedman
Online font tools:
Typetestertypesetter: increadibly useful and easy to use tool for comparing type on screen
Identifont
Identify and find fonts based on characteristics, name or similarities to other fonts
WhatTheFont
Helps you identify fonts based on scanned images of the typeface in question.
Font managment software:
Linotype FontExplorerXLinotype's easy-to-use, versatile, feature-packed and not least FREE font management application for Mac OS X
fontcatalog.com
FontCatalog shows fonts automatically grouped by categories and styles, which makes font searching faster and easier
Extensis.com
Extensis Suitcase and Font Reserve font management applications for Windows and Mac
Printer's apprentice
Font management software by Lose Your Mind Development
Typography blogs and resources:
typophile .comtypographi.com
The International Society of Typographic Designers
Association of Professional design firms
Type Directors Club
fontlover.com
thinkingwithtype.com
http://www.typebox.com/3thinkbox/3hist3_2.html
A brief history of type
Typeindex.org
Typeindex Anatomy of typefaces tutorial
Miscellaneous:
Arial or Helvetica?Can you tell the difference between 'the original and best' and the much-loathed copy?
It isn't always so easy!
Fontifyer
Create a handwriting font from your own handwriting
typorganism.com
interactive typographic experiments
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