Who needs images when we can make words look beautiful with a great font?
Joel Sacks has a look at free and commercial grade font management programs for Windows and mac machines and also provides an overview how each system works with fonts.
The truth is that after a few years you will end up with a large collection of fonts on your systems and keeping track of them as well as choosing the right font for a project can be cumbersome without the right tools. I'd be interested in checking out Font Xplorer 1.2.2 which has a compare mode to quickly search and find the perfect font
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Smashing Magazine's fonts category is a great place to hit and keep an eye on for available free fonts around the web.
They either find them, or link to other places that have found them. Be sure and browser the archives as there are some great refreshing fonts in there that may still be available (some freebies are time limited). You can subscribe to the category RSS feed to stay updated.
If you are in need of some font inspiration, look no further then this collection from 2004 provided by typographica, which included a refreshing selection of various styles of fonts.
Subscribe to their feed for a semi-regular helping of font-inspiration.
A stylish Wordpress blog all about free fonts: Our constantly-growing index of the best free font sites on the web.
Nice reviews, good taste, and links to free fonts among other things...