Independent type designers have devoted their talents to producing fresh new fonts that can give your text a major boost. Indie Fonts 1 & 2 provides a showcase collection of over 3500 diverse fonts from 37 of today's hottest digital type foundries and features the best work of these designers. Indie Fonts 1 & 2 will help you find some of the highest quality fonts available today.

The book’s fully cross-referenced index of type designs and designers (Indie Fonts 2 indexes the original Indie Fonts as well!), accompanied by one-line illustrations of the fonts for quick reference, expedites the search. Direct access listings to the foundries‚ websites and phone numbers, allows the user to put any remaining questions directly to the type designers! (Don’t be shy—they're expecting your call.) Also included is a helpful glossary of typographic terminology and quick reference charts so you can track down those unusual characters required in many languages, such as å, é, î, ø, and ü, and sometimes ß.

Indie Fonts 1 & 2 comes with companion CD-ROMs, worth far more than the retail cost of the books—featuring over 70 representative fonts from the book's independent foundries (fully licensed and ready to install). Searching the web and looking at pixilated web images is not a satisfactory way to find the best type for your needs. Using this book and CD-ROM is a far better method to find unique fonts—from the extremely useful to the surprisingly experimental. Indie Fonts 1 & 2 is a must-have for designers, artists, aesthetes, publishers, advertisers, and hobbyists—in fact, for anyone with something to say.

Page selections at right: Typeface Style Index; Specimens from Carter & Cone and LettError.