Resources
free font sites
DaFont is a huge font collection with over more than 9570 fonts to download. This site has everything from dingbats to Calligraphy.
Urban Fonts is a great resource for free fonts online. They feature over 8000 free fonts to download for mac or PC.
FontStruct is a free font-building tool brought to you by FontShop. You can create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern.
Font Squirrel is your best resource for FREE, hand-picked, high-quality, commercial-use fonts. Their collection is not as big as others.
improving your online type
ypetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier.
Typechart lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS code.
A practical guide to web typography covering all the bases on everything you need to know from leading to bullets.
A List Apart explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.