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After a small discussion in a seperate thread, it was apparent that there may be a need for a list of places where you can get free fonts.
Please contribute information that would help the community. It could be advice on where to get good free fonts or even advice on places that should be avoided because of bad quality fonts, etc. Also, feel free to suggest some places that may have inexpensive paid fonts that are high quality as well.
Obviously, avoid suggesting pirated fonts or where to get them. Keep this discussion "legit".
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There's a plethora of free fonts out there, not all of them are great, but hey, they're free.
Smashing magazine put together a list of 40 free fonts that are great for GOOD design:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/11/08/40-excellent-freefonts-for-professional-design/
However, if you want to pick and choose your own, here is a comprehensive list of free font sites:
Dafont – One of the most popular sources of free fonts
Urban Fonts – More than 8,000 fonts to choose from
Better Fonts – Over 10,000 free fonts
Fawnt – Over 9,000 fonts
RFonts.com – Hundreds of fonts categorized by style
FlashDen – Commercial pixel fonts
Font Freak – 5,000 free fonts and 25,000 commercial fonts
High Fonts – 3,000 free fonts, 25,000 commercial fonts
Better Fonts – 10,000 fonts and counting
Abstract Fonts – 10,000 free fonts
Daily Free Fonts – Thousands of free fonts
SearchFreeFonts – 13,000 free fonts and more that can be purchased
1001 Free Fonts – Nicely categorized
1001 Fonts – Free fonts by category
File Cart – Over 9,000 free fonts
Acid Fonts – Categorized free fonts
Absolute Fonts – Almost 7,000 fonts
The Font Pool – Over 40,000 fonts
Type Now – Currently 6,846 fonts
SimplyTheBestFonts – A lot of different categories to choose from
Fonts 500 – The web’s top 500 free fonts
FontCubes – Over 9,000 free fonts
Free Mac Fonts – Over 6,000 fonts for Macs
WebPagePublicity – Over 6,000 fonts
Phil’s Fonts – Commercial
Fonts for Flash – Commercial
Font Garden – 1,500 fonts not very well categorized
2200FreeFonts – Not categorized
ShowFont – 10,000 fonts only in alphabetical order
GetFreeFonts.info – 2,500 fonts in alphabetical order
Creamundo – Almost 10,000 fonts, but difficult to find what you want
Probably more info than you wanted, but that's the haps!
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I like Pariah Burke's columns on Creative Pro, he often has quite a few free fonts listed.
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Hey, if you are looking to find that font you should take a look at this website
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The best quality free fonts I've found are on
FontSquirrel (free for commercial use)
And FontSpring is good at finding full-price commercial fonts which offer certain weights free e.g. Museo\Sans\Slab
Thanks
Richard