RESOURCES : Fonts

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Original Foundries

(Sites offering their own fonts)

Apostrophe - A feast of free fonts from a range of designers here at 'The Lab'

BitmapMania - One of the nicest collections of free bitmap fonts.

Blue Vinyl - Lots of really fun free fonts, plus a fab commercial selection.

Chank - Brilliantly cool Retro fonts - I have lots of them. He's also a very nice man!

Dinc Type - More cool retro fonts from Diane Dipiazza incl. great 50's script fonts.

Emerald City Fontwerks - A mixture of free & commercial fonts here. Well worth a visit.

Fonthead - I use fonts from the complete CD I bought here in many sets.

Font Diner - Funky retro-looking site, with some great fonts to takeaway.

Fontalicious - Nice site with lots of free, and very usable fonts.

Greg Fonts - A few nice fonts such as Night Sky, which I used on the Indian Gold set.

Grey Wolf Webworks - Lots of great free fonts, my fave being 'Angie Pierced'.

Harold's Fonts - Free & for sale fonts, including some cover versions of famous names.

Jester Fonts - Some lovely fonts, hand-drawn by Jessica.

Larabie Fonts - Almost an institution on the web. Free fonts galore.

Multimania - Some great dingbats & pictorial fonts at this fun French site

Nick's Fonts - My absolute fave free font site, offering a large selection - many Retro.

P22 - Gorgeous fonts, & another complete CD collection which I use a lot.

SRB Powers - Great resource for free bitmap fonts.

Shy Fonts - Sadly closed, but their professional-looking fonts can be found at Typoasis.

Solar Sister - Small but nice selection of original fonts.

The Scriptorium - Excellent collection of mainly Historic fonts which I use regularly.

Tepid Monkey - Growing collection of free fonts, including a 'Font of the week'

Omega - No longer fonting but thanks Eric, for allowing me to use the fonts as I wish.

Uddi Uddi - Had some fun 'stringless' free fonts, but no longer around.

Utopia Fonts - Had a good selection of free fonts, including the famous 'Loki Cola'

Font Archives (Collections of Fonts from various sources)

1001 Fonts - Sorted by designer and theme. Mailing List for update info.

Acid Fonts - Join the mailing list to find out when new fonts are added.

FontFace - Wide selection.

Font Paradise - Another good archive.

Fonts Anon - Satisfy your font addiction here. Members only section, with free fonts, info, & resources.

Dingbats (Picture Fonts, often used in web design to make shapes & patterns)

Jeff's Fonts - Good resource for original dingbat symbols, & the fab 'Action Is' font.

Listemagerens - Great dingbats & a few nice regular fonts too - tho' not updated recently.

The Dingbat Pages - Categorized archive of dingbat fonts.

Font Info

Font Links - Excellent resource, with links to everything font-related.

True Type Typography - Everything you need to know about True Type fonts.

Typoasis - Good resource for 'lost' fonts, & great originals by webmistress Cyber Pee.