Never settle for the fonts that come with your system

You need
Better
Typefaces

Free Licence:

• Google fonts
• Font share
• 1001 Fonts
• League of movable type
• dafont
• Chicagokare is an ode to a bygone era in Apple design. Free version of the original Macintosh typeface.
• Departure Mono a fun pixel mono font.
• Hyperlegibleis a free font offered by the Braille Institute. Also part of Google Fonts.
• Font Squirrel used to be good now its all bots

Code Fonts:

• Monaspace a great free font face with lots of variations.
• Hack which is a tweaked version of Plex Mono, part of IBM’s Plex typeface.
• Gintronic
• Cartograph
• I love using Drafting mono for $10.00 very good and very affordable.

Curated lists:

• Type Swan
• Type Wolf

Commercial

• Adobe Fonts once was typekit. You need a creative cloud subscription to use.
• Blambot don’t use comic sans use a real comic book font!
• Comic Craft The other real comic book font company

There are lots of small type houses out there run by designers. Support them if you can. This is a list of Type Houses

This is Wikipedia's list of special type characters and punctuation. Use this to grab glyphs and paste them into your designs.