Commercial Foundries
- Adobe Type - Adobe has a range of its own fonts, plus they have purchased controlling rights to just about every other font in world.
- Berthold - One of the largest and oldest
- Monotype (Bitstream) - One of the earliest digital type foundries, can also be purchased through myfonts.com
- Linotype - Largest commerical type foundry in the world
Major Font Resellers (the amazon.com's of the type world)
- fonts.com - Monotype's outlet.
- fonts.adobe.com - Adobe's outlet (was typekit.com)
Minor Font Resellers/Design Houses
- chank.com - Chank Diesel font designer site
- dardenstudio.com - Nice fonts, informative EULA (End User License Agreement). Also on fonts.adobe.com
- emegre.com - Local type foundry in Berkeley
- fontbureau.com - Fairly large foundry in Boston, MA
- fonthaus.com - font reseller with 45,000 fonts
- fontspring.com - Good at licensing issues
- fontshop.com - Erik Spierkermann and Neville Brody's online shop. Owned by Monotype.
- houseind.com - prolific type designers
- lukasfonts.com - Luc de Groot's online shop
- typography.com - Big time NYC type designers, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones shop
- Crazy Diamond Design - Designers of historically accurate fonts used in the Harry Potter films
Magazines & Blogs
- ilovetypography.com - blog
- typographica.org - Type reviews, books, and commentary
Free Fonts
Remember, you get what you pay for...
- 1001fonts.com
- dafont.com
- fontspace.com
- fontsquirrel.com - good webfonts and font kits
Information about type
- Collection of useful links about type, like glossaries, bibliographies, file formats, and character sets at Adobe.com
- Luc Devroye's typography pages - large list of typography and font resources
- TypeCulture - academic resource for design students, educators and professionals
- Wikipedia article
Font tools
- Extensis Suitcase - Overpriced subscription-based font organizing software, market leader.
- FontLab Studio - The leading type design tool. Verson 5: US$649. Version 8: $499.
- Fontself - New kid on the block, extension to Illustrator and Photoshop for designing fonts. $39 to $59. Good YouTube demo here
- Identifont - Identify fonts from their features
- WhatTheFont - Upload an image of a font to identify it
Linotype, the film
"Linotype: The Film" Official Trailer from Linotype: The Film
The Creation of a Printing Type
A silent-era film featuring the great Fredric W. Goudy, preeminent American type designer