Best free font resources

At my new job I'm the sole designer, so I end up doing some basic visual design work too. For commercial fonts, the best overall site hands down is MyFonts. They've got a great search engine, show excellent previews of the fonts, and even have cool tools such as More Like This and What the Font. The latter let's you upload an image with some text in it and they will try to figure out what typeface it is. It works pretty damn well.)

But it turns out there are some pretty good free fonts out there too. The best meta-resource is Smashing Magazine's font articles, from which I found a link to the beautiful font Pigiarniq (shown above. The best repository is DaFont.

Also don't forget that the built-in fonts are often pretty good too. For example Microsoft shipped 6 new, high-quality fonts with Vista and Office 2007. And if you don't have either, you can just install the free PowerPoint Viewer 2007 to get them.

Here are a few other free font resources: Font Garden · Larabie Fonts · Urban Fonts