Using Search Filters on Fonts.com

For your convenience there are search fields ready for you to use on virtually every page of Fonts.com.

Know the typeface you’re looking for? You can search by typeface name, or even more broadly by style or theme. For example, searching for "handwriting" or "Art Deco" would bring up results that have been tagged with those attributes.

In order to narrow down your search results to fonts available for use as Web fonts, look for the "Web Fonts" tab at the top of the search results.

Filtering

What if I don't know the specific font I want?

Not a problem. Fonts.com lets you filter search results based upon a slew of options, including visual style, technical capability, or language support. You can also use the "Showing:" filter to filter fonts based on their availability with your subscription. For instance:

• All Fonts — Shows all fonts regardless of subscription availability
• Basic Inventory — Shows fonts that can be used with the Free and Basic Web Fonts Subscriptions. Note that this option is only available on the "Web" Usage section.
• Desktop Subscription — Fonts that you can use as Mockup or Desktop Fonts with your qualifying subscription.

On the search results page, you'll see filters to narrow your results even further. Here’s a rundown of the basic filters you can choose:

• Source Foundry — Who released the font? e.g. Monotype, Linotype, ITC
• Classification — What visual style is the font? e.g. serif, sans serif, script, handwriting
• Designer — Who designed the font? e.g. Paul Renner, Nadine Chahine, Matthew Carter
• Language Support – What character sets are included? e.g. Basic Latin, Cyrillic

We offer more granular filter options too, including:

OpenType Support: Many fonts include companion letterforms, such as ligatures, fractions, old style figures, alternate and swash characters. Use this option to find fonts with extra typographic capabilities.

Kerning Support: Some of our available Web fonts possess advanced capabilities affording precise control over the spacing between characters. Need to really fine tune how your design displays on your site? Use this option to find the fonts that will give you the ultimate typographic control.

SkyFonts Availability: This filter is just what you need to find fonts that are available to use with your plan’s mockup and desktop benefits.

Web Font Quality: You can choose from our Screen Optimized fonts, which are selections that have been processed with a set of proprietary tools for optimal rendering, and provide slimmer file sizes. You can also view our hand-tuned fonts: these premium selections are painstakingly enhanced manually by font experts to look their absolute best on screen, even at small sizes.

We should note that you can mix and match as many or few filter options with your search term as need be to help you find just what you’re looking for. Or, if you want to see the full list of fonts matching the filter attributes you’ve selected, just leave the main search field blank to return all results.

Browsing for Fonts

If you'd prefer a more visual way to search for fonts, you can click "Browse Fonts" from the main navigation of the Fonts.com homepage to view fonts using some familiar methods, such as as keyword, foundry, and designer. These categories will provide you a list of related desktop and Web fonts, so to narrow selections down to those you can use on the Web make sure you've selected the "Web Fonts" tab.

There's also the option to view new Web fonts, which is a great tool to keep tabs on all the latest designs. Check back frequently!

When you do find the font you'd like to work with, selecting it from a results page will take you to that typeface’s family page: an overview showing all the weights and styles of that particular design.

If you drill a little deeper, clicking on a particular weight of the collection will bring you to that style’s specific product page. On the top righthand portion of an individual product page you’ll see tabs for “Buy Font” and “Web Font.” Let’s head on over the the “Web Font” tab, where you'll be provided with options to get a feel for the typeface.

By default you'll see the typeface specimen for your selection displayed. The other tabs above the specimen will let you get a more detailed overview of the typeface. The "Try It" tab will allow you to set text in real time with the typeface, and the "Waterfall" tab allows you to see your sample text displayed in a multitude of common sizes for easy comparison. The "Character Map" tab lets you explore the individual characters and letterforms included with the font you're previewing, and the "Web Font Browser / OS Samples" tab allows you to see how that font will render in different browsers or operating systems.

Adding Fonts to Your Project

Hopefully searching for fonts seems less daunting now; adding them to your project is equally pain free. If you'd like to add an entire font family to your project, you can do this right from the search results, just look for the Web fonts option.

However, for typefaces with many weights or styles you might not want to add the entirety of the fonts available. If you expand the selection (using the arrow next to "Show all...") you can select individual styles to add to your project. When you click the "Web Fonts" button you’ll also have more detailed options for which features of the font you'd like to include. Remember the individual product pages we talked about previously? You can also access these more detailed options there as well; we'll use a product page in our example:

Web Font Options

If you’re signed into your account, when you click the “Web Font” tab in the upper right of a product page you’ll see a couple of menus. The first will be for Web font options; this drop down menu will let you select a project to add your font to, as well as the specific character set for your font (and its associated file size). Generally speaking, the more complex a character set, the larger its file size will be.

Our fonts may be available in a variety of character sets including:

• Latin 1 (21 languages, including English, German, and Spanish. See all.)
• Latin Extended (Latin 1, plus support for many additional Eastern European languages. See all.)
• Multilingual & OT Features (larger character sets, plus OpenType features— e.g ligatures)
• Traditional Chinese
• Simplified Chinese
• Japanese
• Greek
• Hebrew
• Korean
• Cyrillic
• Thai
• Arabic
• Indic

SkyFonts Options

In addition to the Web Fonts drop down menu, you’ll also see a SkyFonts application button below as well. Clicking will provide options for you to initiate a 5-minute trial of the font, or sync mockup and/or desktop versions of the fonts to your machine if your plan includes those benefits.