A good selection of fonts is of great importance for the design and layout of the magazine, so it is very important to find a good source of quality fonts. The Internet is full of sites that offer free fonts, or sell a collection of professional fonts. Many of them offer the same or very similar fonts, so some fonts can be found on several websites. A large number of fonts is free, but for personal use only, usually is necessary to buy a font for commercial use. You can find out about this in the font license information. We recommend that you check under which license the font is before you start using it. Also, our advice is to make a selection of several high quality fonts and use them in each issue, avoid using too many different fonts.
This is a selection of some of the websites we’ve made for you:
1. Adobe Typekit
Adobe Fonts (formerly Typekit) is an online service which offers a subscription library of high-quality fonts. You can search through Adobe Typekit on the web or in some applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign...), which allows you to easily add new fonts.
2. Google Fonts
Google Fonts is a library of free and open sourced font. The font library is also distributed by Monotype’s SkyFonts, Adobe’s Edge Web Fonts and Typekit services. Thanks to the open source nature of its fonts, Google Fonts is one of the most valuable resources which is intended for both personal and commercial use.
3. Linotype
Linotype is a place where you can find classic and well-known fonts, such as Helvetica, Myriad, Futura, Avant Garde DIN, Frutiger, Eurostile, Minion and Universe. The Linotype library grew to become one of the most well esteemed font libraries worldwide and it is being continuously expanded with new fonts. Linotype fonts are not free, the price can go up over $ 250.
4. FontShop
FontShop was the first independent digital type retailer with nearly 37,000 typefaces from 8,000+ font families. Company is founded in 1989 by Joan and Erik Spiekermann.
5. MyFonts
MyFonts offers selection of over 130,000 professional fonts. They offer free fonts, but most of the highest quality fonts are not free. MyFonts account is required to place an order, even for free fonts. When ordering a font, the user selects a license - desktop, webfont, mobile app, server, or ePub licenses.
6. Fonts.com
The Fonts.com store offers more than 150,000 desktop and Web font products. In addition to the existing fonts, you can order a custom font on Fonts.com, and they will create it for you. They also offer font conversion services, including conversions to the PostScript, TrueType, OpenType and Unicode formats.
7. FontSquirrel
Font Squirrel is a excellent resource for high quality (and mostly free) fonts. They also have excellent Font Identifier, so if you have a picture of a font, and you do not know which font it is, try Font Identifier.
8. 1001fonts
1001fonts offer a large collection of mostly free fonts, sorted into 64 categories.
9. Creativemarket
Creative Market is an online marketplace for design assets. The company sells graphics, web themes, stock photography, templates but also fonts. They offer over 25k fonts to download and use in design projects of all kinds for web and print.
10. FontSpace
FontSpace collection has almost 39,000 free fonts shared by designers around the world. They have a useful user interface that will make it easier for you to search for fonts.