Freefonts!: Designer Fonts Online

This book is a great reference tool. There are fonts here that are harder to find on your own. Plus the art that goes along with the font is so interesting and inspiring. There are some real font treasures here and offbeat designers that are good to know about. Links break over time, so for some of the fonts you have to do a little hunting, but it's worth it. And they are free.

Great reference and certainly worth the price. Some fonts are no longer on-line so I take away one star. (Not the fault of the book, however.)

Given all the previous criticism below, I would have never bought the book. Luckily for me, I saw it at a retail outlet first before seeing it here. I don't know what other people were expecting, but the book does exactly what it says, help find free fonts online. THIS IS THE INTERNET and information changes all the time! That being said, I bought the book 1 1/2 years after it first came out but was still able to find most of the sites and fonts. My only disappointment is that the fonts by Rodney Fehsenfeld are gone.Who cares if the book lists the most popular sites out there, just do a Google search instead. At the top will be My Fonts, 1001 Fonts and other also-rans with thousands of hideous fonts that hopefully never see the light of day or page. Sure, it takes time to navigate different sites, but the fonts are FREE. The designers wouldn't have put their fonts in the book without getting something in return---us looking at their sites. One of the best things about the book is that it shows how a font looks on paper and composed with some sort of graphic. I don't have to squint at a fuzzy onscreen shot that looks okay only to find out later the font looks horrible printed. All in all, I found this book useful and was really glad to find it because I can't afford to just buy all the fonts I want and didn't know where to start looking for free ones either. It's one of the few good books out there on the subject, and if people out there keep complaining, then there won't any in the future. NO, I AM NOT the Author.