Never settle for the fonts that come with your system
You need
Better
Typefaces
Free Licence:
- Google fonts
- Font Squirrel
- League of movable type
- dafont
- Chicagokare is an ode to a bygone era in Apple design. Free version of the original Macintosh typeface.
- Hyperlegibleis a free font offered by the Braille Institute.
Code Fonts:
I personally use Hack which is a tweaked version of Plex Mono, part of IBM’s Plex typeface. Which is free. I also love using commercial fonts like: Gintronic or Cartograph. I do find Drafting mono for $10.00 very good and very affordable.
Here is a great resource for previewing code fonts it lists just about everything: programming fontsCurated 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!
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.