9 years ago from Emily Saforrian, Product Manager
I don't come from a visual design background and rely on inspiration when picking fonts for a project.
I love fontsinuse.com and [justmytype.co](justmytype.co) has a lot of potential but lacks examples.
Is there anything else I should be looking at?
When I want to pick a great cheap font, I go here:
+1 for Google Fonts. I had a "duh" moment the other day when I realized you can download the fonts and use them on the desktop.
Got an alternative for fonts when I don't want to use Typekit from my CC subscription.
http://typorn.org Glorifying Eclectic Typography.
Great topic.
A few things I've found useful:
The Elements of Typographic Style (applied to the web): http://webtypography.net/toc/
Adobe Typekit: https://typekit.com/
Type Sample: http://www.typesample.com/ (allows you to quickly identify any font on the web)
On Web Typography: http://www.abookapart.com/products/on-web-typography
This post on Typewolf (and basically anything on Typewolf): http://www.typewolf.com/blog/industry-leading-designers-share-their-favorite-typefaces
Inge Druckrey: Teaching to See: http://vimeo.com/45232468
Inspiration for when using Google's fonts:
Just found out about this one today. Pretty fun to use and really informative for pairings.
font ninja is great - great for finding fonts on a site without going into the console and hunting down the inherited styles!
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