NexusFont is a free Windows application for easily managing fonts.

It is a very useful application specially when trying to decide "which font to use" for a specific text as it can "display outputs of a custom text with various fonts" in a grid.

The application has support for TrueType, OpenType & Adobe Type1 fonts.

NexusFont can help installing/uninstalling fonts, finding duplicates, anti-aliasing, renaming & more.

Also, it can export the preview lists as images which is a nice feature when sharing the options with clients, colleagues, etc.

Typedia is a free-to-use community-driven resource to classify, categorize, and connect typefaces.

It works like a wiki, anyone can join, add & edit pages for typefaces or for the people behind the types.

It is possible to find out details about fonts like: 

• the designers
• foundries
• country of origin
• release year
• & more..

The resource is not complete yet (and won't be, as new fonts are created everyday) but growing & becoming a very useful resource.

Typedia also offers some other great information under the "Learn" section.

Free Premium Fonts is a website presenting 1000s of free fonts for download.

Fonts are very well-grouped into categories like futuristic, handwritten, 3D & more.

Once you view the details of a font, you can customize the text to have a better opinion about how it will look on your project.

Also, a magnifier helps you to zoom every letter & a "Top 50" list helps seeing what are the most downloaded fonts.

For every designer, Free Premium Fonts is a must-bookmark for reaching to a huge library of free fonts.

Open Font Library is a community for finding & sharing non-proprietary typeface designs.

Fonts shared can be downloaded for free or you can upload a font you created to share with others.

Although there are 10+ fonts presented in the website, this is the new face of Open Font Library where there are 150+ fonts to be transferred from the old website.

The website also hosts the fonts for free that you can include them to your webpages with @font-face rules (more details).

And, besides the free fonts, you can find information on how to design fonts, or how to earn money by designing them.

Fonts 500 is a website presenting the most popular fonts of all times and offering them as a free download.

The list is calculated according to the download counts of popular font download websites.

The fonts are already displayed with the names of them but any text can be mentioned for a customized look of the fonts.

P.S. There are some shareware or demo downloads in the list.

If you want to add a personal twist to the text that is used in your websites or designs then you will like this.

YourFonts is a free service that turns a handwriting into a font.

Process is very simple: you print a template>fill>scan>upload it. The font is auto-generated & you can download your font.

Some examples of the fonts generated can be found here.

Want to win a free copy of MainType (a professional font manager)?

YourFonts is giving a free license of MainType who writes a review about the service.

If WRD gets the free license with this post, then it will be given away to a WRD reader.

Just comment to this post, I’ll be running a random query between the commenters to select the winner (when the license arrives – no earlier than 24 hours).

Update 02.06.2009: Just ran the random query and the winner is: Chomik (comment #35920). Congratulations.

Font Squirrel is a fresh website presenting free fonts which can be used in commercial work.

They are well grouped under categories like:

• Blackletter
• Calligraphic
• Comic
• Dingbat
• Grunge & more..

 And, new ones added daily.

P.S. Thanks to Ethan from Font Squirrel for the suggestion.