101 Typography Resources for Web Designers
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If you appreciate typographic inspiration, you’ll love our new gallery site TypeInspire.
Lists of Great Fonts:
40+ Excellent Freefonts for Professional Design – Smashing Magazine
80 Beautiful Typefaces for Professional Design – Smashing Magazine
60 Brilliant Typefaces for Corporate Design – Smashing Magazine
30 Fonts that All Designers Must Own – Just Creative Design
Most Popular Free Quality Fonts – Tech Magazine
Great Fonts for Web 2.0 – Modern Life is Rubbish
13 Typefaces Every Graphic Designer Needs – David Airey
25 Best Free Quality Fonts – Vitaly Friedman
Download Fonts:
Dafont – One of the most popular sources of free fonts
Urban Fonts – More than 8,000 fonts to choose from
Better Fonts – Over 10,000 free fonts
Fawnt – Over 9,000 fonts
RFonts.com – Hundreds of fonts categorized by style
FlashDen – Commercial pixel fonts
Font Freak – 5,000 free fonts and 25,000 commercial fonts
High Fonts – 3,000 free fonts, 25,000 commercial fonts
Better Fonts – 10,000 fonts and counting
Abstract Fonts – 10,000 free fonts
Daily Free Fonts – Thousands of free fonts
SearchFreeFonts – 13,000 free fonts and more that can be purchased
1001 Free Fonts – Nicely categorized
1001 Fonts – Free fonts by category
File Cart – Over 9,000 free fonts
Acid Fonts – Categorized free fonts
Absolute Fonts – Almost 7,000 fonts
The Font Pool – Over 40,000 fonts
Type Now – Currently 6,846 fonts
SimplyTheBestFonts – A lot of different categories to choose from
Fonts 500 – The web’s top 500 free fonts
FontCubes – Over 9,000 free fonts
Free Mac Fonts – Over 6,000 fonts for Macs
WebPagePublicity – Over 6,000 fonts
Phil’s Fonts – Commercial
Fonts for Flash – Commercial
Font Garden – 1,500 fonts not very well categorized
2200FreeFonts – Not categorized
ShowFont – 10,000 fonts only in alphabetical order
GetFreeFonts.info – 2,500 fonts in alphabetical order
Creamundo – Almost 10,000 fonts, but difficult to find what you want
Tools:
Font Tester – View and compare fonts easily
TypeTester – An easy way to compare fonts on-screen
CSSTYPE – Another useful font testing tool
Em Calculator – Converts size in pixels to relative em units, which are based on a text size
Lorem Ipsum – The best tool for creating dummy text
What the Font? – Upload a file and it will identify a font
Colour Contrast Check – Specify a foreground and a background colour and determine if they provide enough of a contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits or when viewed on a black and white screen
FontExplorer X – Free font management software
Designer Plaything – The Standalone Web Typography and Colour Testing Tool
CSS with Vertical Rhythm – Will help you compute CSS that has a consistent vertical rhythm
Baseline Rhythm Calculator – Helps you to generate a stylesheet
Articles:
A Guide to Web Typography – I Love Typography
15 Excellent Examples of Web Typography – I Love Typography
The Anatomy of Web Fonts – SitePoint
The Principles of Beautiful Typography – SitePoint
How to Size Text in CSS – A List Apart
Power to the People: Relative Font Sizes – A List Apart
Typography Matters – A List Apart
The Non-Typographer’s Guide to Practical Typeface Selection – Cameron Moll
5 Simple Steps to Better Typography – Mark Boulton
The Effect of Website Typeface Appropriateness on the Perception of a Company’s Ethos – Usability News
How to Size Text Using Ems – Clagnut
13 Ways of Looking at a Type Face – Design Observer
Typography and Web Advertising: Making Every Opportunity Count – Digital Web Magazine
Better Font Management – Digital Web Magazine
CSS Typography – Digital Web Magazine
15 Tips to Choose a Good Type Text – Typies
Fonts on the Web and a List of Web Safe Fonts – Dustin Brewer
Serif vs. San Serif – KuraFire Network
Web Typography Cheat Sheet – Modern Life
Working with a Limited Font Set on the Web – Modern Life
Typography Tips and Advice for Graphic Design Students – David Airey
Logo Type Guide – RedSun
Typo Tips – The FontFeed
Choosing Type Alignments for the Web – Astheria
Motion Typography: 4 Approaches to Kinetic Text – Wisdump
It’s All About Legibility – Fonts.com
Know Your Type – iStockphoto
The Showcase of BIG Typography – Smashing Magazine
Resources:
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
An Introduction to Font Families and Font Choices
ABC Typography: A Virtual Type Museum
Typography Crashcourse Roundup
Typography for Headlines – Gallery of Headlines
Text Sizing Methods by Browser
Typography in the Behance Network
Fun:
Great Scenes from TV and Film, Told Using Only Typography (and Sound)
For more resources please see:
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Great list of resources for typography, thanks for the inclusion in the list also!
Thanks Dustin, and you’re welcome for the link.
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Thanks Shankar.
An offline resource I recommend is:
The Non Designers Type Book by Robin Williams
This book is full of the bare essentials of typography. It is VERY easy to read and a MUST HAVE for anyone starting out in typography.
I would also recommend Typography Resources Every Designer Should know.
There is no end to the amount of information on typography on the internet. Thanks for doing the leg work of gathering them.
Steven….are you human?
nice list. thx.
Great list! Thanks for sharing.
WOW, what a great list… will take me forever to go through, thanks for posting it.
Typesites is a brilliant resource as well.
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wow!!
there are tons of great fonts in here!
this is great!
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Great Fonts! There are more here.
You’ve out done yourself! Very thorough list:)
Fantastic resource, certainly gets my thumbs up! However, I’d change the title to just 101 Typography Resources for Designers as you don’t want anyone thinking that you can just use these fonts for body text on a site…
Great list. Ah, but how to choose the one or two fonts that you like the best?!
Great list! Stumbled and Dugg!
Jacob,
Thanks for recommending the additional resources.
Pablo,
Yes. I just don’t have much of a life these days.
Aaron,
Thank you!
Kathryn,
Good luck with that.
awesome list. I’m going to have to bookmark this for later. I need some ideas for a new logo!
Slow down pal! The amount of information you are feeding us is overwhelming!
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This is very much cool.Nice informative.Thanks a lot.
You have created quite the list of font resources!! Thanks for sharing it with rest of us. I see a couple of articles that I need to read right away, font management & css typo.
This list is really great, thank you so much!
This is a fantastic post and a great resource bookmark
Thanks
Yet another great list from Vandelay Design! We have bookmarked several of your list posts, and like the others, this is worthy of a bookmark.
Thank you for taking the time to put this together!
Thanks for putting this extensive list of typography resources together! Every link is a type inspiration.
entirely safe and fun Very helpful!
Great link. Thanks for share !
This is a great article. But more articles related to the topic are in order. Searching for serif returns only one article (this one).
What is your take on serif vs. sans-serif? Which one is more suited for the web? Also which one is more suited for body text? What factors you kept in mind when redesigning vandelaydesign.com?
sry. I meant “..while choosing sans-serif for vandelaydesign.com…”
But more articles related to the topic are in order. Searching for serif returns only one article (this one).
Hey,
thanks for the great collection.
You can add my site too to this collection,
Url is: http://www.downloadfreefonts.org
Dafont has been my free font download site of choice for many years now, I will check out these other ones, thanks for the links!
wow this list is the best…bookmarked it at the first time i saw it.thanks
Great post. I appreciate the time you put into these
Really helpfull and great post.Thanks
This is an excellent resource for all designers.
Sweet list! I am a typeface whore and love finding new freeware fonts to use in my designs. This is a wonderful resource and I’m definitely hanging onto it. Thanks for taking the time to post it
Oo nice list, tnx a lot!
great list. i didn’t know most of them before.
Thanks for sharing such a huge list. Better start going through the list now.
Hi,
here you can find many other web sites with a lot of free fonts:
Free Fonts
Bye,
Salmo69
Typography is very important in a website. It can make or break content in my opinion. Nonetheless, great list of resources (:
this is a totally awesome & massive list of amazing resources, thanks for posting! i just love type.
unless i missed it before, there is another site for good reference:
http://www.allfontz.com
it’s basically an a-z listing of all available free fonts which may help users out, though it helps if you know the font name in order to narrow search results quicker…(mac and pc display the coded website differently in terms of placement which may throw off usability while browsing the site, but is a good resource just the same).
enjoy font finding!
Just what I’ve been looking for! Thanks for this great list of fonts. I’m always looking for new sites to find free fonts and I will have to bookmark this because I will come back to visit each site.
Great designs..
Wowww!! This is what I’m looking for. I want to improve my typography skill.
Big thanks and Big Kiss
OK Stop it. You’re making everyone else look bad. Once again, what a resource!
Hey…….
Awesome……. Creative and stylish fonts…….. Cool man……… Thanks
Thank you Vandelay, for our designers, this is a very good resource.
Thanks for sharing it with rest of us. I see a couple of articles that I need to read right away, font management & css typo.
Nice collections..thanks for sharing…..
This list is such a god send to teachers creating web pages and looking for the simplest and cheapest way to do so. Thank You !!!
I also suggest using specialized fonts that are fun for the younger kids on holidays and other special events. You can find a handful of free ones here: http://qpn.net/coupon-encyclopedia/business-resources/the-ultimate-guide-to-finding-fantastic-fonts
There is no end to the amount of information on typography on the internet. Thanks for doing the leg work of gathering them…
wow, what an Incredible list! Thanks for the typography list, bookmarked for sure!
Thanks for the list! I love dafont, using it myself!
Thanks for the collection you put together another great Typography blog post. I generally use a cufon of a nice clean, rounded san-sarif font for titles, other then that good old arial. Cufon has made this possible, I would never use a font other then Arial or Times without cufon.
you know one thing i like about you? i’ve gat that skill of compilation. u really know what is needed. thanks and always ur fav. fan.
Thanks For Sharing
I LoVe typography
Nice helpful article, typography is a totally evolving thing.
This page is going straight into my bookmarks! Great suggestions.
I have a suggestion for fonts websites too: http://www.fontineed.com. I think it should be in this list.