As designers, most of us have a thing for fonts. Hell, in some cases, it can almost be classified as a sickness. And, sometimes you want a typeface that’s funky to give your project just the right tone. Smashing Buzz has compiled a great list of free creative fonts perfect for designers who love to add a little grunge or hand-made feel to their projects.

Check out the list of awesome creative fonts at the Smashing Buzz web site.

Where to start, where to start? Do you have a hard time narrowing the options from your vast library of typeface choices when you start a new project? Then, this handy flowchart might be just the thing you’ve been looking for! It takes you through a variety of steps to help you pare down the options and get you headed in the right direction to find the perfect font for any project.

Read the full article at the Penn Olson web site.

If you’re like most designers, you can never get enough images of beautiful typography. Check out this collection of images for some great eye candy.

View the full collection of typography images at the ImgFave web site.

Orli Yakuel at Tech Crunch puts together an awesome collection of font tools and sites sure to make any typophile drool. Check out online font viewers and managers, typeface databases and, if that’s not enough, tools to make your own custom fonts. Suh-weet!

Click here to read the full article on the Tech Crunch web site.

We suggest you visit this site with a napkin in hand to wipe the drool from your chin as you browse. The typefaces on Letterhead fonts are gorgeous! Classic retro-style typefaces will bring on a serious bout of nostalgia.

Click here to visit the Letterhead Fonts web site.

OK, beloved retailers. Let this be a lesson to you all. Do not take lightly the switching from one font to another. You could have a mob of angry IKEA-lovin’ designers on your hands!

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Some designers are walking “encyclopedias” of typography. This site literally is – or aims to be as it grows – the web site equivalent of an encyclopedia of typefaces, classified and discussed by the site’s users. Watch out, typophiles, this could become an addiction in a hurry!

Click here to visit the Typedia web site.

In trying to troubleshoot a font issue, we came across this free online font converter that converts fonts between OTF, TTF and DFont formats. A neat little tool if you need to convert a font quickly and easily.

Click here to visit the Online Font Converter web site.

Get ready to spend a few hours browsing the more than 10,000+ free fonts this site has to offer, including dingbats, gothic fonts, 3-D typefaces, grunge/eroded fonts and more.

Click here to visit the FontSpace web site.

I Love Typography is a blog dedicated to making readers more aware of the type around them and to illiciting the “wow” factor from people with regards to typography and typefaces.

Click here to visit the I Love Typography web site.