Visual Communication: Typography

Offers a selection of more than 2,200 innovative fonts and classic styles. This collection is searchable by keyword, font style, use, theme, classification or designer.

"The fonts presented on this website are their authors' property, and are either freeware, shareware, demo versions or public domain. The licence mentioned above the download button is just an indication. Please look at the readme-files in the zips or check the indicated author's website for details, and contact him/her if in doubt."

Powered by AFGA Monotype, this site provides font services, sells fonts, features new releases and has a database of font types.

An "online source for finding, trying, and buying fonts." You can sign up for a monthly e-mail newsletter. There's a "what's new" area at the site.

open source fonts

ATypI is the premier worldwide organisation dedicated to type and typography. Founded in 1957, ATypI provides the structure for communication, information and action amongst the international type community.

Part of the larger graphic design and printing resource focusing on fonts: news, reviews, books, software, events, etc.

Devoted to fonts, typefaces and all things typographical.

Main sections include "About fonts," "Links, news & contacts" (with a database of over 700 type and typography related sites on the Web), "Developing fonts," and "Tools and utilities."

from WDL

"In order to allay some of the myths surrounding typography on the web, I have structured this website to step through Bringhurst’s working principles, explaining how to accomplish each using techniques available in HTML and CSS."

A blog for typography, described as "a journal of typography featuring news, observations, and open commentary on fonts and typographic design."

typo/graphic posters is a platform for inspiration and promotion of good design through the poster culture. It focuses exclusively on typographical and graphical posters, those that challenge type, colors and shapes to express a message.

Fonts In Use is a public archive of typography indexed by typeface, format, industry, and period. Supported by examples contributed by the public, one can use the site for project research, type selection and pairing, and discovering new ways to choose and use fonts.

"A Virtual Museum of Typography." Website designed by Jean-Christophe Loubet del Bayle to "underline the fact that every typeface has its own history."

A portal dedicated to typography, typefaces, calligraphy, and the history of printing. A Jean-Christophe Loubet del Bayle website. Links to ABC Typography, the virtual museum. Free fonts to download.

An "an interactive experience informed by type and typography." History, timeline, gallery, more.