Tweaking your CSS and your code so your pages render nicely regardless of the user's browser is, we all know that, a very time-consuming hassle. But there's more into it than just cross-browser consistency. Fonts might not display the same way on a mac and on a PC — in fact, that nice font you used for your headings might not even exist on the other platform. Now what? Hopefully, there's Typechart.

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It's that time of the month again, where Smashing Magazine release their cool fonts selection. This month, we have one script, two sans-serif and one hand-drawing/graffiti typefaces. Check those out.

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Every month, the guys from Smashing Magazine dig the web for the nicest free fonts. After the link, you'll find the march set.

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CSS Typeset is a hands-on typography tool allowing designers and developers to interactively test and learn how to style their web content. You can set the font family, size, color, letter-spacing, word-spacing, line-height and etc… It will automatically generate the CSS file for you. You can see the changes instantly. It is a really great tool for experimenting a suitable font type for your site.

The site also features a blog that highlights news, development progress, new features, etc...

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Prefiltering is a good thing. Having expert people crawling the web and indexing its best resources so you just have to browse through the summaries is a key benefit, no doubt about it. The guys at Fonts 500 have done a terrific job: they surfed an insane number of free fonts repositories, sorted the best available fonts on the overall number of downloads, and then compiled all the results in a slick, crisp interface, making all those packages available at your fingertips. Isn't that great ?

» Fonts 500: The 500 best free fonts on the web

One of the most valuable resource for design professionals is typography. However, as a major disadvantage, not only are packages extremely expensive, but also fonts collections are most of the time badly organized, with poor navigation and cluttered previews.

Well, that was the past.

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