Typography can make or break your design. There is like a bottomless resource of fonts on the internet but only a handful are good. Of course this also depends on how it’s implemented. Times New Roman has been used so much that everyone is tired of it, but Simon Collison has shown how an old and tired font can still make a great design.
There are great fonts available free and commercial. I have compiled a list of the fonts that have caught my eyes that are free or reasonable priced.
Free fonts
Jos Buivenga is a well known type designer, there are several well known websites and even a book that uses one of his types. I’m starting with my current favorites from his collection that has at least one type for free. Calluna and Fontin.
Calluna
Fontin
Modata
Porcelain
Nuvo Web Medium
Just Old Fashion
District Thin
Commercial fonts
I listed a few commercial fonts ranging from 20 to 60 dollars per type, while they do cost money you get a complete font package in most cases. If you do design for work or are planing to it’s a good idea to invest in commercial fonts especially if they come with multiple licenses.
Solomon
40 dollars for one style.
Billboard
19.95 dollars for one style, considering Billboard is perfect for headers and large type I would only buy the regular one.
Alright Sans
Only thing I have to say about this fonts is that I love it. When I look at it it gives me the itch to design something, anything just to use this font.
40 dollars for one style.
FF DIN
FF DIN is an old font in web years, it was designed in 1995 by Albert-Jan Pool. FF DIN has become enormously popular the last couple of years, being used by companies such as JetBlue Airways and Adidas.
Considering how classic and popular this font is, 59 dollar for the regular type is nothing.
Bitmap fonts
You can’t miss having at least a few bitmap fonts to use.
Silkscreen
Silkscreen created by Jason Kottke must be the webs most famous bitmap font and best of all it’s free!
Bitmap
Several variations of Bitmap pixel fonts.
