Free or bought, fonts of a high quality are always great to have in your font book, but nine times out of 10 they are extremely hard to find and its a very time consuming process. It takes a lot of patience to find somewhere for that ideal font you are after. We are constantly on the lookout for typography-related sites, always looking for the latest fonts to fill our need for the best and when we do we are sure to bookmark that site. So today we’d like to share some of those sites with you to help with that ball-ache of finding the best fonts. As usual leave us a comment if you have any great sites that you think should be added to the list.

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As designers, developers, programmers or the every day joe we’ve all come across this common problem. You’ve been browsing through your favorite websites and found one that uses a font you love and must have there and then… but how do you go about finding out what that font is called?

One option would be to email the site and just ask for the name of the font and where to get it. But what are the chances of that and if there was one this can take some time. Instead we’ve pulled together a list of FREE online tools to help out in that search for the “font” of your life.

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Every now and again we all need new fonts to wow clients, and they always want a “fresh” high-quality free font to save them money. The choice is enormous, and the time you need to find them run’s into the project time line. So we’ve had a little dig and found a few for those designers out there. We’ve even used the majority of them on our current projects have a poke around in the portfolio to see how we’ve used them.

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As with any design project, typography plays a vital role in successfully communicating your ideas. Refer to your client’s Corporate Identity or Brand Guidelines - very often a pre-selected typeface at a range of different weights and point sizes will have been defined in order to maintain the integrity of the brand.

In the case where no guidelines have been specified, a wider range of typefaces can be explored. For example, sometimes a highly stylized typeface when used in moderation can enrich and complement the elements within a sites layout.

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Like anyone, as you surf the internet you’re going to come across designs that you love and some that you just love to hate. That’s why trends continue to change. To keep things interesting and exciting. It’s just like decorating your front room, no one wants to sit around looking at the same wall for 10 years now… do they?!

In my eight years experience I can definitely say design trends have changed dramatically and I’m sure they will continue to do so. But of late the one trend that I love is the growing interest in typography, which can be seen larger than life at smashing magazine. Having come from a traditional print background I’ve always been frustrated at how limited we’ve been when using typography well online. But now with a bit of CSS things have changed - why, we can even make Times look sexy! Bet you’d never have heard that from a designer a year ago!? And what’s more we can even play around with the spacing, leading and the colour.

So for now it’s all about BIG bold fonts! Let’s face it, why keep squinting at your monitor and let’s embrace this new trend…

…for now at least!