Say no to Faux Bold

Browsers can do terrible things to type. If text is styled as bold or italic and the typeface family does not include a bold or italic font, browsers will compensate by trying to create bold and italic styles themselves. By A List Apart

A Closer Look At Font Rendering

 

The Web font revolution that started around two years ago has brought up a topic that many of us had merrily ignored for many years: font rendering. The newfound freedom Web fonts are giving us brings along new challenges. Choosing and using a font is not merely a stylistic issue, and it’s worth having a look at how the technology comes into play. By Smashing Magazine

Proper Typography for a Successful Design

Basically, typography is the art and technique of arranging typefaces for communication purposes. In other words, typography is a simple arrangement in order to transmit a message, while good typography is the attention to visual accuracy and details, even the small ones. By 1st Webdesigner

New High-Quality Free Fonts

Every now and then, we look around, select fresh free high-quality fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you should be investing in your projects. By Smashing Magazine

How to Bulletproof @font-face Web Fonts

You’re interviewing for your dream job, and you’re ready to kick some butt. A small group is gathered around a conference phone and some coding exercises, and they’re pulling up your portfolio on a projector so that everyone can review it.
It looks great, except for one thing: All of your beautiful web fonts are gone and have been replaced with… Arial. By Six Revisions

30 Free And High Quality Fonts

Great listing of 'free' fonts. By Brant Wilson

35 Useful Free Fonts for Graphic Designers

There are more free fonts around than ever before. High-quality, attractive and elegant fonts that you don’t have to pay a cent for are everywhere. By Crazyleaf

The @Font-Face Rule and Useful Web Font Tricks

The possibility of embedding any font you like into websites via @font-face is an additional stylistic device which promises to abolish the monotony of the usual system fonts. By Ralf Hermann

40 Examples of Beautiful Typography in Web Design

Typography is certainly a very important aspect of web design. So choosing the proper typography for your site is for sure a huge step of the design process. By Gisele Muller

Five Principles for Choosing and Using Typefaces

For many beginners, the task of picking fonts is a mystifying process. There seem to be endless choices — from normal, conventional-looking fonts to novelty candy cane fonts and bunny fonts — with no way of understanding the options, only never-ending lists of categories and recommendations. By Dan Mayer

65+ free handwritten fonts for elegant designs

Story of handwritten fonts (or we can say only fonts) starts from very old ages, when people was just realizing the need of communication between one and other. By Taimur Asghar

30 new free high-quality fonts

In this listing of fonts you'll see Piron, Nobile, St Marie, Code, Arcus, Crimson Text, Quadranta, Juice, Prociono, Mr Jones, Ibarra Real and various useful symbol fonts. Please note that some fonts are for personal use only and are clearly marked as such. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the fonts; they can change from time to time. By Vitaly Friedman

A Web Designer’s Guide to Linux Fonts

Many people find Linux to be an afterthought as far as target audience is concerned, but Linux is exponentially increasing in popularity as an alternative to other operating systems. By Michael Tuck

25 Beautiful and Free Thin Fonts

Typography is a critical aspect of web and graphic design, but finding the right font can often be a challenge. By Vandelay Design

The Essential Guide to @font-face

The days of being limited to a handful of fonts on the web are very close to being a thing of the past. The problem is no longer a lack of viable solutions, but rather, an abundance of them. By Joshua Johnson

50 Stunning Typography Wallpapers For Inspiration

Typography is said to be the backbone of web design, but it’s also considered art all by itself. And, let’s face it, most designers are obsessed with it. By János Rácz

Web Typography

There are many books and articles on typography, but considerably few explore typeface selection and pairing. By Jason Santa Maria