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Made Easy F O N T S E L E C T Io N BY ILENE STRIZVER M A D E E A SY Finding fonts online can be a time-intensive and frustrating endeavor. Here, type expert Ilene Strizver provides an overview of various type foundry websites and offers tips to make choosing fonts easy and fun. If you’ve searched the web for just the right font, you MYFONTS know you have countless options. How many? Ten www.myfonts.com thousand? Thirty thousand? Try 55,000+, with new MyFonts offers thousands of fonts from many found- ones popping up online every day. These fonts consist ries and designers. Although somewhat cartoonish in of original typeface designs, historic revivals and inter- design, the site is professional, uncluttered, easy to pretations (and reinterpretations), as well as added navigate and extremely robust. weights and different versions of existing designs. An important element in selecting a typeface in the This can make selecting a typeface overwhelming. digital age is the ability to set words in a font at varying To complicate things, you have to wade through a sizes within the foundry’s website. This is especially multitude of font foundries and distributors whose helpful for display usage for which sharpness is less of a primary marketing tool is the web. The font libraries problem onscreen. TestDrive is MyFonts’ try-out utility. of these foundries and distributors change constantly; TestDrive allows you to set the text of your choice in so do their sites as they redesign and add new tools any size and type style onscreen. You can even compare and features. two type styles at a time, which is a real timesaver. We’ve done a survey of typographic websites and MyFonts has a powerful search engine at the top of broken them down by size and library in an attempt to every page. In addition, fonts are indexed by foundry, make font selection easier and more efficient for you. category (also known as classification) and designer. The site has five discussion forums, including one on font identification. WhatTheFont is MyFonts’ fully Large Foundries automated font identifier; when you upload a scanned FONT SELECTION image of several letters, it compares your sample to a and Distributors database and sends you a match in seconds. This group offers the largest number of fonts, usually from a variety of foundries and designers. Site features FONTS.COM such as font try-out utilities, typeface search applica- www.fonts.com tions, font identifiers and specimen materials vary Fonts.com from Monotype Imaging Inc. (formerly Agfa from site to site. This can make font selection exciting Monotype) is a font provider with a long pedigree. The or painful. site began by offering the Agfa font collection along with Additional site features meant to entice, inform and the highly esteemed Monotype Library. It now includes entertain can include informational content, e-news- the ITC typeface library (acquired in 2000) as well as letters, forums, best-seller lists, pricing specials—and a growing collection of typefaces from other designers occasionally, free fonts. Most sites offer immediate and foundries, both large and small. Fonts.com is one of downloads and tech support. the few sites to offer free catalogs of its complete library. 104 • FEBRUARY 2005 WWW.HOWDESIGN.COM This is an invaluable courtesy in a world where printed “world-class fonts from internationally renowned found- materials are dwindling due to their high cost. ries, award-winning type designers, and distinguished This site has downloadable PDF specimens for design studios.” Although the type library web page is a new releases and is backfilling the ITC and Monotype little difficult to find amidst Adobe’s software products, libraries. The company also has two newsletters, one you’ll find that it’s an excellent resource for technical electronic and one print, announcing new releases and historical information. The site is somewhat corpo- and pricing specials. But Fonts.com’s most notable rate in design and a bit tedious to navigate, but there’s a feature is the content. There’s an abundance of articles lot there if you take the time to go through it. about typefaces, type history, professional typesetting, The 300-page Adobe Type Reference Guide is one designer and foundry profiles, book reviews, type trad- of the best type catalogs around. Available from the ing cards and the history of the alphabet. Adobe Store for $25, it makes a valuable addition to any type-reference library. Adobe also has excellent PDF THE LINOTYPE LIBRARY specimen materials for fonts that include a full glyph www.linotype.com complement—important for an OpenType font. Other The Linotype Library has been around for more than resources on the site include a 20-page font primer 100 years and is known for its professional, high-qual- PDF that covers typographic terminology and concepts, ity typefaces. Many of the most well-respected design- character access charts and font embedding. ers have contributed to the library, including Hermann Zapf and Adrian Frutiger. The Linotype Library con- ITC FONTS tinues releasing top quality, innovative new designs, as www.itcfonts.com well as refining and expanding Linotype classics such ITC Fonts is the online store for International Type- as Neue Helvetica, Optima Nova and Avenir Next. face Corp., the legendary type foundry that led the The site is clean, simple and fairly easy to navigate pack in typeface design 30 years ago. It’s still going with most of the features accessible from the home strong, offering a balanced mix of classic and con- page. The Linotype site has extensive search features, temporary text and display designs, including a large with more than 200 search words to help you navigate collection of calligraphic and handwriting fonts. The the library. The Font Lounge lists hundreds of design- search engine links to partner site Fonts.com, which ers with links to their typefaces. Linotype also offers offers convenient access to thousands more fonts. pixel fonts for digital or screen design. The ITC Fonts site is also the home to Upper and Lower Case Magazine, which features archived ADOBE TYPE LIBRARY articles, designer profiles and the For Your Typographic www.adobe.com Information series. Type trading cards and ITC clas- The Adobe Type Library bills itself as a source for sics are also available. WWW.HOWDESIGN.COM HOW • 105 FONTHAUS sible search words and categories, and customizable www.fonthaus.com type samples. FontShop offers many fonts rarely found FontHaus offers name-brand fonts from some of the on other sites, which makes for a diverse international top foundries in addition to its own collection. The collection. Read the clever typographic musings of newly redesigned site is stylish, organized and intui- Erik Spiekermann (as well as other contributors) in the tive—“easy-in, easy-find, easy-out,” as they say. online Font Magazine. The site also has a type glossary The FontHaus site has extensive search options at the and some excellent suggested links. FontBook, the top of every page. FontHaus offers a Top 50 Best Seller 1,500-page type reference book of thousands of type list as well as a Top 10 Per Foundry list. The top of the samples, is pricey at $99, but well worth it. home page has a Big Type Sample in a variety of fonts that rotate with a click. The seductive, large displays and PHIL’S FONTS the simplicity of the operation make it addictive. www.philsfonts.com The company’s online magazine, x-height, features Phil’s Fonts is a distributor offering fonts from more than articles about fonts, type design, designers and tech- 75 foundries worldwide. The site is simple and easy to nology, all written by industry experts. In addition, navigate, but there’s not a lot of content or features. FontHaus offers clip art, illustrations and stock pho- Phil’s Fonts’ online magazine, WIT, has some interesting tography, which makes for convenient one-stop shop- interviews, typeface histories and articles. The site also ping. This site is fun to use. offers an FAQ page and a list of useful links. FONTSHOP VEER www.fontshop.com www.veer.com This is a great source for every taste bud. The site, Veer is a relative newcomer to the font business, but which is clever, robust and European in flavor, con- has lots to offer. Although Veer is primarily known tains all the necessary features, including easily acces- for graphics products, check out this stylish, well- HAPPY HUNTING: FONT-SELECTION TIPS Take advantage of keyword searches to narrow type libraries. In other instances, the font might be a your hunt. Sometimes you know the name of the different version or interpretation of the same type 1typeface you’re looking for, but other times you style. You’ll often find this with fonts such as Bodoni only know the style, personality or category. In other and Caslon. words, your design solution hinges on one of those “I’ll know it when I see it” fonts. Many foundries have Take advantage of the freebies. Sign up for e- powerful keyword search capabilities to help you newsletters to keep abreast of new releases, find what you’re looking for. The search words vary 4 specials and other valuable information. If your by foundry and can include general categories such inbox gets flooded, you can always unsubscribe. Order as serif, sans, decorative, calligraphic or condensed. every free print catalog and brochure available. More detailed categories include stencil, grunge and futuristic. Application search categories can include Download PDF specimens and print them out. invitations, posters, book text, time periods and styles You can organize them by foundry and category such as western, medieval and Art Deco.
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