The structure of the font industry has become similar to the music industry, in that it has a few large vendors plus thousands of small independents, with much of the new content coming from the indies. Tracking of this sizable and rapidly changing list is covered by the two sites below.

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MyFonts

This is the most comprehensive directory of the font industry, listing over 500 foundries, 2000 designers and 48,000 fonts, including Apple fonts. The font name list can be queried on-line via a web service. When naming a new font, the FontLab-Studio application queries this on-line font name database to verify font name uniqueness.

Microsoft Typography Links

Simon Daniels maintains a very comprehensive list of font developers, vendors and resources.

Text & Fonts Downloads

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