the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory. There are currently 404 typefaces in the Google web fonts directory. Many of them are awful. But there are also high-quality typefaces that deserve a closer look. Below are examples of these typefaces in action. Click the examples to get the typeface from the Google web fonts directory.

Now those are some playing cards.

A nice listing/overview of the web font services.

We're done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won't have it. It's time to raise our standards. Here, you'll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts.

Now this is cool. I'd totally buy a poster of this. It combines two great memes into one package full of awesome. Plus it has Futura and Helvetica as the top two elements, which is proper.

A compiled a list of font stacks that will both open up more font possibilities for web designers, and hopefully offer more appropriate substitutes. Defintely not the Dreamweaver defaults you see all over the place. This is a good list.

A nice way to explore typefaces. Type in your phrase at the top, and see it reflected with a ton of popular typefaces. Nice.

This isn't a bad looking coding font. Don't know if it's going to be my go-to, but I like the sizing options with this a great deal. Defintely worth checking out. The price is free, as in beer.

The jQuery sIFR Plugin is an addon for jQuery that makes it easy to replace text in a web page with flash text (sIFR, Scalable Inman Flash Replacement). It gives you a function in javascript to replace text in a web page dynamically with sIFR text, using native jQuery functionality along with the jQuery Flash Plugin.

A well done, text-based design. I like the multiple columns and the denseness of the entire layout without it being overly much.

A great list of fonts.

A good overview of fonts, typefaces and the differences between the two and what constitutes quality in a font.

Outlines the pros and cons of sIFR nicely.