Typography Resources

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FontGenius I note (along with these very late posts) is available for Windows as well. http://fontgear.net/fontgenius.html

Another font identification engine:

Not as popular or sophisticated as MyFonts' WTF engine, there's Identifont, a web-based lookup thingy, as we Pros call it.

The thing I like about this site is the layout, to almost immediately see intelligently-chosen font alternatives, sample right there and a brief history of the chosen typeface. Every blue moon, I can font a font on the web by author, but not font name.

Example: Look up Roger Excoffon sometime. You'll be surprised by the popular fonts he created in his lifetime.