Indices : Typefaces : Font Starter Packs

A recommended list of commercial fonts available in affordable collections, usually on CD. Of interest to students and designers looking to begin building a professional typeface collection.

Ascender Creativity Font Pack

Includes Today Sans, Eagle, Coquette and 27 other decorative fonts. - $19.99

Adobe Collections

A variety of Adobe type packages.

The Cambridge Collection

200 classic faces from Bitstream - $199

Linotype Funeral Value Pack

Admittedly of limited use, a nice set of typefaces useful for setting funeral announcements.

Storm Open Library 2

Reasonable selection of 12 professional OT font families - for ca. 400 Euro.

Storm Type Library 2 - TTF Single License

54 font families, most of them of professional quality. Contains only TTF fonts. - ca. 390 Euro.

FontStars 2007

29 OpenType fonts from 14 foundries. The best new additions to the FontShop collection in 2007. $599.00

Fonts Bundled with Software

Corel Draw bundled fonts

Corel Draw (and, apparently, Corel Wordperfect) comes bundled with a collection of 1000 fonts. The quality of these fonts is debatable.

Adobe Creative Suite bundled fonts

Adobe Creative Suite products come bundled with a large collection of fonts.