Fonts - Type, Typography & Letterform Resources.
It's been said that a designer worth their salt can never have enough fonts on hand. To be sure, we've got thousands of font and type families lying around the studio. Here's some of our fave font and typography destinations. Have a font related website, blog or service you'd like us to feature? Tell us about it here.
ITC Fonts
International Typeface Corporation. Download PostScript fonts and TrueType fonts. ITC provide over 1000 downloadable fonts from classic typefaces to cool fonts..
Fonts.com
Fonts.com is the Internet’s number one font resource. On fonts.com, you’ll find the Internet’s best selection of fonts for preview, purchase and immediate download. Fonts.com is also the place to find the latest typographic news, tips, and typeface releases. Thousands of creative professionals rely on fonts.com’s resources every month.
Top Free Fonts
TopFreeFonts.com provides a ranked list of the top font related sites on the Web. The sites listed may contain free fonts, commercial fonts, font information, and/or font tools.
Type Design
Site of top font and typography designer Jim Parkinson. Jim has been designing letterforms for forty years, starting as a lettering artist for Hallmark Cards in 1964. In 1990 he put away his pen and went totally digital.
Larabie Fonts
Larabie Fonts; a freeware font site created by Ray Larabie. There are more than 384 in fonts in 281 families here free for your personal or commercial use in TrueType format. Yes, you heard correctly. They are free. No charge. Nada. Zilch. Zip.
My Fonts
MyFonts is your complete online source for finding, trying, and buying fonts. With 44,559 fonts on one easy-to-use web site and the best search tools in the business, MyFonts is sure to help you find the perfect font! MyFonts has sold 1,477,846 fonts.
Font Freak
FontFreak.com, one of the largest and most visited free-/shareware font archive on the net. You will find thousands of free fonts from over 300 different authors. The fonts are divided into a PC and a Mac section. The dingbats are for PC only. Mac versions may be added at a later date.
Good Fonts
As a web designer, you know that Verdana can get real old real fast. But you also know that there are millions of free fonts on the internet and most of them are horribly bad. Here's a secret: not all truetype fonts are bad. Some of them are quite classy. The truth is you dont have to be rich and able to afford postscript fonts in order to look professional.
Garage Fonts
GarageFonts Type FoundryGarage has over 750 original typeface designs available for download, from designers across the globe. Check back regularly for new additions and features!
Fonts for Flash
Source of Pixel Fonts. Pixel Fonts are font sets that have been designed at the Pixel Level so that they appear crisp on web and Flash presentations - even at very small sizes.
Letterhead Fonts
Specializes in rare and unique old typefaces from the turn of the century as well as newly designed sets. Gallery features inspirational use of fonts on logos, signs, etc. A favorite source of fonts for The Logo Factory design crew.
Killer Fonts
Here's an interesting font site. Typefaces made from the handwriting of infamous killers and famous people. Quick, Easy And Safe Purchases!
How to make your own fonts
When custom is the only way to go. Here's how to create your own fonts and typography. Series in in-depth articles.
Letterror Fonts
LettError has published award winning typefaces since 1989. The LettError classics as FF Trixie, FF Instant Types -- published by FontShop's FontFont label -- are used all over the world and recognised by millions
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Logo Fonts
Text based logos are the simplest (and favored by Fortune 500 corporations) logotype but can be enormously difficult to design - the designer is limited in the 'tricks of the trade' that are available and when using 'off-the-shelf' font work, your logo runs the risk of being uninspiring...
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