Being able to select the right font can make the difference between an ordinary web page design and a really attractive one.
It's not hard or expensive to find the typeface that's right for your design. Here are my recommendations for font resources.
If you only have one bookmark for free fonts, this is the one to use.
UrbanFonts.com has all the fonts you'll ever need. They tick all the right boxes for a font site:
If you need a little bit more distinction, UrbanFonts also offers a selection of affordable high-quality fonts.
A really useful set of font categories, which help you focus in on the right shape, style or mood.
Click on any of the categories below to browse them on Urban Fonts.
I have hundreds of fonts installed on my computer. When working in Photoshop, it's not possible to scroll through all my fonts to find the right face for a particular use.
That's where The Font Thing comes in. It's totally free to use, and lets me type in some text and then browse what that text will look like in all the fonts I have installed.
Font Thing is one of the top 5 productivity applications I couldn't live without.
Some text will work great in one font, but look awful in another, because some fonts have weak letters or patterns. So it's often important to match a font to the text that will be shown in that font.
Just type in the text you want to see, set the size using the slider at the bottom, and you can scroll through all your installed fonts, looking out for something that has the right feel.
Font Thing works on versions of Windows from Win95 onwards, but not on Mac/Linux. If you use a similar app for other operating systems, let me know and I'll post them here.
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