Font Usage, Stats, Foundries, Programming Fonts and Links
Well, it’s time for me to clean out some bookmarks again.
- The most common fonts - very useful list of the most common fonts installed (includes Macs and Linux)
- A practical guide to web typography - based on the book The Elements of Typographic Style
- Web Typography Sucks
- The non-typographer’s guide to practical typeface selection
- Linux Font Equivalents to Popular Web Typefaces
- Review of Microsofts 6 New Fonts in Windows Vista
- A Comprehensive Look at the New Microsoft (Vista) Fonts
- What are the fonts in Vista - complete list of fonts that come with Microsoft Vista
- Microsoft Typography
- sIFR - use Flash and JavaScript to replace text with any font you want version 3 is out though
- Typogrify - a way to stylize your typography (for Django), it puts classes around certain elements to let you style them differently
- Typography for WordPress - someone built a plugin that is similar to Typogrify for Django
- Five simple steps to better typography
- Times New Roman - proof Times New Roman is not dead
- I Love Typography - great site dedicated to typography
Free fonts
- Larabie Fonts - this guy makes a lot of good fonts
- dafont - great font site
- The Ahem font - The font’s em square is an exact square
- misprinted type
- Semplice Pixelfonts - good for Flash
- codeman38 - unique fonts based on console games
- Freaky Fonts - fonts based on games, pixel based
- Dieter Steffmann - many old looking and ornate fonts
Programming Fonts
- Programming Fonts - nice list
- Monospace/Fixed Width Programmer’s Fonts
- Fonts for Programmers
- Bitstream Vera - Bitstream Vera Sans Mono is very popular, you’ve probably seen it used in Ruby on Rails screencasts
- Proggy Fonts - Monospaced Bitmap Programming Fonts
- Anonymous Font
- Dina Programming Font
- ProFont
- Console Fonts
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