Some great free and not-so-free font sites.
It’s easy to find free fonts all over the web, but many free font sites are packed with eccentric font faces only useable in ransom notes or ’80’s grunge band logos. It’s very hard to sift through them for usable fonts with the spacing, design and legibility we used to expect from traditional font foundries.
While completing a recent design project, I found several sites that deliver only high-quality font sites. Some specialize in free fonts, others are mostly for-purchase, with a few free samples that are nonetheless worth mentioning.
The advent of @font-face means we can soon start expecting the same quality typography in web that is available in print. While cloud-based solutions (fonts.com, typekit, etc.) for commercial font licensing issues are starting to show up, there are also some opensourced web fonts out there that you can download and start using today for free on your sites.
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