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:
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.