As we wander about the web, we find many people like us who think typography is not a dying art, but one worth preserving. When we discover sites we believe are the finest to be found, we’ll list them here:

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This is one of the must-see sights on typography on the web. Very well-designed and laid out. It explains many aspects of type through text and great visuals. But the most interesting thing is a timeline starting from 15,000 BC to present day with all the important events in typographic history. A very informative and fun site. You'll need shockwave software to view the site.

Alphabets, Inc.

Excellent site design combined with an interesting font selection (including many dingbat fonts). Acrobat PDF preview files are provided for each font.

typoCave

Another decent collection of type-related links.

Web Page Design for Designers

A well-designed site from Joe Gillespie, the creator of Mini 7, a very small yet very readable screen font for the Macintosh. You can download Mini 7 from The FontSite’s Font and Downloads page.

International Typeface Corporation

Includes an excellent glossary of type terms. Clean page design and a wealth of typographic information.

Galapagos Design

Established in 1994 by former key Bitstream employees, Galapagos Design offers a small but growing selection of high-quality original typefaces, including dingbat fonts of insects and gargoyles, and an alphabet composed of condom-clad penises.

Treacyfaces

We really should have included Treacyfaces on our foundries list from issue 1, and it was an oversight not to have included them sooner. Some of the finest headline and web fonts available (along with a number of lovely text faces), definitely check out their site. Great prices too.

Typophile

An interesting site that offers courses, articles and forums for typographers, type designers and graphic designers. (FYI - this site makes heavy use of Flash and JavaScript.)

Arguably the finest fonts available for digital typography. Adobe started it all back in the mid-80’s with PostScript and has since released over 2000 typefaces.

A major source for fonts (over 3,600 to date). Includes an on-line catalog.

The horse’s mouth for information on font technologies such as TrueType, OpenType, cascading style sheets, and font embedding. Be sure to download the Web type package. It’s free, and contains several outstanding TrueType fonts for Mac OS and Windows.

One of the truly unique font collections. Emigre introduced many alternative type designs when Adobe and others were releasing Helveticas and Garamonds.

Letraset publishes the Fontek line of typefaces. A very nice library indeed. Try the section entitled “Ripper” on their website. It lets you enter text and then renders it to the screen using any typeface in the Fontek library. Pretty cool way to demo fonts on the Web.

Image Club is (formerly a division of Adobe) is now part of Eyewire. They not only have a wide variety of fonts (very wide), they also offer several high-quality clip art and photo collections.

Bitstream has always had a strong type library, and even a handful of original designs. If you’re a Windows user, you must check out their new font manager. It’s called Font Navigator, and it’s simply the best font management program available for Windows. And not to be missed: MyFonts.com - well worth the side trip.

One of the innovators in the world of alternative typography, GarageFonts has a cool selection of grunge, retro and dingbat fonts. GarageFonts was co-founded by David Carson, the designer of magazines such as Ray Gun, Bikini and Beach Culture. Carson is no longer directly involved with GarageFonts, but his legacy lives on.

Another grunge shop, Shift offers a cool selection of mechanical and symbol fonts.

FontFonts set the standard for innovative and daring design beginning in the late 80s and early 90s, and are still at the cutting edge today. You’ll instantly recognize designs like Trixie (the first of the dirty typewriter faces), Neville Brody’s immensely popular Blur, and Meta, the “Helvetica of the 90s.” An impressive website.

More cool grunge.

Cool site with some of the best experimental typefaces. A very nicely designed site displaying great typeface design. Must see.