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101 Typography Resources for Web Designers

March 24th, 2008

Typography

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:

Browser Safe Fonts

Top 10 Web Safe Fonts

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

Web Typography Style Guide

An Introduction to Font Families and Font Choices

ABC Typography: A Virtual Type Museum

TypeNeu - Typography News

Nice Web Type - Gallery

Typography Crashcourse Roundup

Combined Font Survey Results

Typography for Headlines - Gallery of Headlines

Accessible Web Typography

FontLover

Typography Videos at Yuxt

Typography Glossary

Text Sizing Methods by Browser

Font Classification

TypeNavigator

Typography in the Behance Network

Movie Fonts

Fun:

Arial or Helbetica?

Helvetica Documentary Video

Great Scenes from TV and Film, Told Using Only Typography (and Sound)


60 Responses to “101 Typography Resources for Web Designers”

  1. Dustin Brewer Says:

    Great list of resources for typography, thanks for the inclusion in the list also!

  2. Vandelay Design Says:

    Thanks Dustin, and you’re welcome for the link.

  3. Shankar Ganesh Says:

    This post has been submitted to Digg :)

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  4. Vandelay Design Says:

    Thanks Shankar.

  5. Jacob Cass Says:

    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.

  6. Vinh Le Says:

    There is no end to the amount of information on typography on the internet. Thanks for doing the leg work of gathering them.

  7. pablopabla Says:

    Steven….are you human?

  8. Mademind Says:

    nice list. thx.

  9. Biodun Says:

    Great list! Thanks for sharing.

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  11. Scott Fillmer Says:

    WOW, what a great list… will take me forever to go through, thanks for posting it.

  12. Pete Says:

    Typesites is a brilliant resource as well.

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  21. Rich Says:

    Great Fonts! There are more here.

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  26. Tim Says:

    You’ve out done yourself! Very thorough list:)

  27. Sy Stanford Says:

    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…

  28. Kathryn Says:

    Great list. Ah, but how to choose the one or two fonts that you like the best?!

  29. Karthik Says:

    Great list! Stumbled and Dugg!

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  31. Vandelay Design Says:

    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.

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    awesome list. I’m going to have to bookmark this for later. I need some ideas for a new logo!

  34. pablopabla Says:

    Slow down pal! The amount of information you are feeding us is overwhelming! :P

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    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.

  39. Ivan Says:

    This list is really great, thank you so much!

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    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!

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