Fonts.com Reviewer's Comments

Fortified with 177 foundries and over 7000 original fonts, fonts.com receives our "TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award." Fonts.com, a division of Monotype Imaging, offers fonts from popular foundries such as Adobe, The Chank Company, Elsner+Flake, the Font Bureau, Linotype and Lanston Type.

Fonts.com offers value priced font packs as well as advanced features such as font conversion, customized font development and font consultations. They also have the ability to digitize artwork and create logos or symbols for your product or company.

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Ease of Use:  

Nearly every feature is easy to find through Fonts.com homepage. Through this page, you gain access to their quick search function, favorite and newly released fonts as well as interesting features such as Trading Cards and Hidden Gems.

Feature Set:  

Fonts.com offers over 7,000 original fonts in three of the most popular formats including TrueType, PostScript and OpenType. Many font selections are available on CDs for easy storage and backup. They offer several font pack options, a wide variety of services and flexible license agreements.

A money saving option, for those who require a variety of fonts, is their font packs. They offer four different types of collections including:

• Libraries - including Adobe OpenType, ITC and Linotype collections
• eBook Fonts - through Monotype and the ITC Typeface Library they offer over 2000 fonts suitable for publishers
• Value Packs - 65 different packs of mixed fonts available
• Volumes - font groups from the same family

Font.com offers designers a long list of service options, from custom fonts to font format conversions. Other services they provide include:

• Typeface design
• Digitization of existing artwork
• Creation of logos and symbols
• Development of custom character sets
• Creation of fine-tuned ESQ fonts
• Non-Latin font development
• Multilingual and Unicode font solutions
• Custom editing of printer fonts
• Multiple platform font support
• Typefaces and font technology consultations
• OEM services, including color technology and type development

This service offers several types of licenses, such as:

• Standard User - 5 CPUs and one printer
• Extended Multi-User - covers a set number of users or an entire site
• Enterprise-Wide - for an entire company using one intranet
• Font Embedding, Streaming and Web Servers

The search options provided by fonts.com are the same as those of ITC, which include search by keyword, classification, designer or foundry. This site also includes the interesting "search by site" option, which enables you to search by how you want a font to appear based on a series of questions.

Ease of Download:  

Our review team did not encounter any problems with font downloads from this service.

Available Tools:  

Most of the tools offered by fonts.com are purchasable, including font creation software. Their conversion abilities will convert selected fonts into:

• Multi platforms
• PostScript, TrueType or OpenType format
• Unicode conformant encoding
• Non-Latin characters

Help/Support:  

The assistance provided by Fonts.com is outstanding. They offer toll-free telephone numbers for technical and customer support for the US, UK and Canada. They conveniently provide email contact addresses for sales, billing and general questions and an email form for technical support. They also provide a physical address for mail inquiries or comments.

Fonts.com offers a number of additional resources on industry news and other font subjects. They support two free newsletters, Clicks that is sent monthly and National Typographic that comes out quarterly. Through the newsletter Clicks, designers can acquire a selected free download every month. From the homepage, they offer information on font designers and font subjects, such as 'seasonal fonts.'

Summary:  

Instead of spending days searching through an endless number of foundries, search through fonts.com. Through this service, you can search 177 foundries at once, find the perfect font, utilize high-touch customization features and acquire a versatile license. Whether you are looking for Art Nouveau, Cyrillic or Sans Serif, fonts.com provides you with an original font instantly.