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Fonts

Fonts are sets of typographic characters, topically used to write documents on word processors. Well known examples are the Arial or Times New Roman fonts bundled with the Windows operating systems. There are various formats for storing font data; the most common is Adobe Truetype. Font files usually store either a bitmap image of each character of the alphabet in various sizes or a vectorial drawing of the characters, which allows you to scale them to any size without losing resolution.

For all Arabic encodings, including Unicode.

Barcode

Barcode fonts are special fonts used in packaging and sorting that use vertical bars (that can be easily read by scanners) in place of numbers or letters.

By Alphabet

Contains fonts in alphabets other than Latin/Roman.

By Theme

Includes sites which focus on specific themes, such as Christmas, Halloween, Medieval/Fantasy, Horror etc

Dingbats

Fonts that have symbols and shapes in the positions designated for alphabetical or numeric characters. Well known dingbat fonts include: Wingdings, Webdings and Zapf Dingbats.

Please only suggest sites offering dingbat fonts to this category.

Directories

Web directories containing lists of font related resources (websites) on the Internet.

Please only suggest web directories containing lists of font related resources (websites) to this category.
Sites offering collections of "fonts" rather than collections of "font related websites" should be suggested to: Computers: Graphics: Fonts: Repositories rather than here.

FAQs, Help and Tutorials

Sites offering help, advice and education on font creation and management.

Foundries

Companies which produce original fonts for sale or custom design fonts to order.

Please only suggest sites for companies that create their own fonts for sale, or who custom design fonts to this category.

Sites which sell fonts created by others should be listed in: Computers: Graphics: Fonts: Repositories
Sites for individual designers offering custom fonts/their fonts for sale (or for free) should be listed in: Computers: Graphics: Fonts: Individual Designers

Individual Designers

Individual/freelance font designers providing custom font design services or offering their own designs for sale.

Please only suggest the sites of individual/freelance font designers providing custom font design services or offering their own designs for sale, to this category.
Sites for companies (rather than sole traders) should be suggested to the foundries category rather than here.

Repositories

Sites offering collections of downloadable fonts.

Please only suggest sites offering collections of downloadable fonts to this category.

Sites for companies which design and sell their own fonts should be suggested to the foundries category rather than this one.
Sites offering fonts that are free to download should be suggested to the "Free" subcategory.

TrueType

TrueType is an outline font standard originally developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. The default filename extension for these files is .ttf.