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How can I find a specific font?
Where can I find foreign (non-Latin) fonts?
Where can I find dingbats and symbol fonts?
Where can I find the font used by a band, movie, TV show etc?
Where can I get a renaissance-style font?
Font foundries
Font creation and conversion
Font management
Font resource pages

How can I find a specific font?

Try using the FontSeek (www.fontseek.com) search engine, which has links to commercial foundries and samples of many free and shareware fonts. Fontpool has a startling range of previews of fonts, indexed by name and category.

You could also do a general search of the internet using one of the search engines below. You may well find it available for free download. Try entering something like this in the search box:

• Fontname + font download free

If you don't know the name, check the various categories listed below, or just browse the type foundries listed. You could also try the web-based identification utilities What The Font and Font Spotting. Good luck!

AltaVista
Google

Where can I find foreign (non-Latin) fonts?

Dr Berlin's Foreign Font Archive (Albanian, American Indian, Arabic, Armenian, Basque, Bassa, Bugis, Burmese, Chechen, Coptic, Croatian, Cyrllic, Esperanto, Farsi, Filipino, Gaelic, Geez, Georgian, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew & Yiddish, Inuktitut, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Maltese, Mongolian, Slavonic, Romanian, Runic, Syriac & Assyrian, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Vietnamese) - http://www.dtcc.edu/~berlin/fonts.html
Castle Type (Cyrillic) - http://www.castletype.com
Electronic Font Foundry (Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Indic, Punjabi, Tamil, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati) - http://www.eff.co.uk/Wins.htm
Everson Typography (Celtic) - http://www.evertype.com
Masterfont (Hebrew) - http://www.masterfont.co.il
ParaType (Cyrillic) - http://www.paratype.com
Terrapin (Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Farsi, Greek, Gujurati, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese (Katakana, Hiragana, Kanji), Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh) - http://www.terrapin.co.uk

Where can I find dingbats / symbol fonts?

Have a look at:
Dingbat pages - http://www.dingbatpages.com

Where can I find the font used by music band, movie, TV-show etc?

Have a look at:
Elite Entertainment Famous Fonts - http://www.eliteentertainment.net/famousfonts

Where can I get a renaissance-style font?

Have a look at:
Colonial fonts - http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/typograf.html

Foundries and resellers

1001 Free Fonts - http://www.1001freefonts.com

2 Rebels - http://www.2rebels.com

Adobe - http://www.adobe.com
Agfa Monotype - http://www.fonts.com
Apollo Program - http://www.theapolloprogram.com
Apostrophic Labs - http://www.apostrophiclab.com
Astigmatic One Eye - http://www.astigmatic.com

Berthold - http://www.bertholdtypes.com
Bitstream - http://www.bitstream.com
Blue Rats - http://bluefonts.bluerats.net
Blue Vinyl -http://www.bvfonts.com
Buttfaces - http://www.buttfaces.com
BuyFonts.Com - http://www.buyfonts.com

Castle Type - http://www.castletype.com
Chank - http://www.chank.com
Club Type - http://www.clubtype.co.uk
Comic Book Fonts - http://www.comicbookfonts.com
Cool Fonts - http://www.cool-fonts.com

Dieter Steffmann - http://www.steffmann.de
Divide by Zero - http://fonts.tom7.com
Electronic Font Foundry - http://www.eff.co.uk/Wins.htm
Elfring - http://64.21.138.30/index.htm
Emigre - http://www.emigre.com
Everson Typography - http://www.evertype.com

Fontasy - http://www.fontasy.de
FontBoy - http://www.fontboy.com
FontBureau - http://www.fontbureau.com
FontCraft aka Ragnarok Press - http://www.fontcraft.com/fonts
FontEmpire - http://www.fontempire.com
Font File - http://www.fontfile.com
FontFont - http://www.fontfont.de
Fonthead Design - http://www.fonthead.com
Font Mania - http://www.webfxmall.com/fonts/a1.html
Fonts N Things - http://www.fontsnthings.com
FontWorks - http://www.type.co.uk
Fountain - http://www.fountain.nu
Fraktur - http://www.fraktur.com
Fuel Fonts - http://www.fuelfonts.com

Garcia Fonts - http://www.typerware.com/garciafonts/home_uk.html
Garage Fonts - http://www.garagefonts.com
Grilled Cheese Fonts - http://www.grilledcheese.com

Hoefler Type Foundry - http://www.typography.com
Horror Movie Font Dungeon - http://www.norfok.com
House Industries - http://www.houseind.com
Handgrenade Fonts - http://mrchips.cdy.org/handgrenade

ICI Union Type Supply- http://www.i-c-i.net/utype/pages/bienvenue.html
Immortal Graphics - http://www.immortalgraphics.com
ITC - http://www.itcfonts.com

Jack Yan and Associates - http://www.jyanet.com/fonts/index.html

Killer Fonts - http://www.killerfonts.com
Kiwi Media - http://www.kiwi-media.com

Larabie Fonts - http://www.larabiefonts.com
LetterPerfect - http://www.letterspace.com
Letraset - http://www.letraset.com
LettError - http://www.letterror.com
LucasFonts - http://www.lucasfonts.com
Linotype - http://www.fontexplorer.com/FontStore
Lunchbox Studios - http://www.lunchboxstudios.com

Margo Chase Design - http://www.margochase.com

Nick's Fonts - http://www.nicksfonts.com

Point Central - http://www.point-central.com
Precsion Type - http://www.precisiontype.com
Prototype - http://www.prototype-typeo.com
Psyops Type Foundry - http://www.psyops.com/html/home.html

T26 Digital Type - http://www.t26font.com/control/index2.htm
TheTypes - http://www.thetypes.com
Typerware Design - http://www.typerware.com
Typodermic - http://www.typodermic.com

URW++ - http://www.urwpp.de

Vintage Type -http://www.vintagetype.com

Xerotype - http://crch.newdream.net/x.htm

Font creation and conversion

Commerical
CorelDraw - http://www.corel.com · Unoffical tutorials: 1 2 3
Fontographer - http://www.macromedia.com · Unoffical tutorial
Ikarus - http://www.urwpp.de

Shareware
BitFonter - http://www.pyrus.com
CompoCompiler - http://www.pyrus.com
CrossFont - http://www.asy.com
FontCreator - http://www.high-logic.com/fcp.html
FontLab - http://www.pyrus.com · Unoffical tutorial
FONmaker - http://www.pyrus.com
ScanFont - http://www.pyrus.com
SigMaker - http://www.pyrus.com
TransType - http://www.pyrus.com

Freeware
Embed - http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~twm/embed/
Noah(tm) - http://mywebpage.netscape.com/yeahnoah/

Font management

Commercial
Adobe Type Manager Deluxe - http://www.adobe.com
Bitstream Font Navigator - http://www.bitstream.com
FontReserve - http://www.fontreserve.com/info/FRProdwin.html
Printer's Apprentice - http://www.loseyourmind.com/pa70.asp

Shareware
FontTrax - ttp://www.mytools.com
FontXplorer / FontXplorer Light - http://www.moonsoftware.com
MyFonts - http://www.mytools.com
Typograf - http://www.neuber.com/typograph

Freeware
Adobe Type Manager Light - http://www.adobe.com/products/atmlight/main.html

Font resource pages

Association Typographic International - http://www.atypi.org
Digital Type Review - http://www.typereview.com
FontLover - http://www.fontlover.com
Fontpool - http://www.fontpool.com Luc Devroye's Font Links - http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/fonts.html
Microsoft Typography - http://www.microsoft.com/typography
TrueType Typography - http://www.truetype.demon.co.uk
What The Font - http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont
PC Fonts - http://www.pcfonts.com

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