Fonts! Fonts! Fonts!

Once I am on a fontaholic binge, it's really hard to stop. Normally, I just haunt the font shops that I buy from, primarily P22 and Scriptorium. I decided to check out old font shops that I liked.

My first stop was Fonts Anon (Fontaholics Anonymous). I used to be a member of their group and remember constantly forgetting my password. It's nice to see that they've "opened up".

From there, I launched myself over to Fontlover, where I took a "What Font Are You" test and discovered that I was "Candice". I don't think I'm "Candice" at all. It's fun. It's disgustingly cute, but I don't think I'm a "Candice". I'm not groovy/funky enough.

From Fontlover, I started looking at old font foundries I've admired.
• Chank - I've always wanted to be part of the Chank Army. I'm not funky-artistic enough.
• Astigmatic One Eye - A fantastic type foundry with a very cool website design. I tried designing in this style: dark and heavy and heavily framed. I fail miserably at this style.
• Blue Vinyl - Very beautiful stylized fonts for a variety of occasions. I must buy Delorita when the right project comes along.
• Chris Costello - The guy behind Papyrus. Every fontaholic knows this beautiful font.
• Font Diner - Fabulous retro-style fonts.
• Font Head - Fabulous grunge-style fonts. I love grunge fonts, but never get the opportunity to use them.
• House Industries - I love this font house's limited edition prints.
• Robot Johnny - Creator of Baloney, a gorgeous brush-strokey grungy font that I've never been able to use in any situation. It's a great blog/journal too.

I was introduced to a number of new font houses as well, with fonts that I really liked. I just need to find the proper project for them.
• Blambot - Comic-style fonts that I will hoarde if ever asked to do lettering for a comic book. It will never happen, but it's nice to dream.
• Dust Bust Fonts - For my next techno-themed project.
• Font Bureau - It will take me hours to look through this extensive font library. Gorgeous fonts.
• Fuel Fonts - Some beautiful stylized fonts. Lots of mixtures of style.
• Fountain - Beautiful European-style fonts.
• Letterhead Fonts - Vintage-style fonts (Victorian era, especially). This would have been the perfect site to get fonts for my post-Moulin Rouge site designs. Luckily, those designs haven't seen the light of day. My designs are horrid.
• Lunchbox Studios - One of the best sources for grunge type, it seems. Which means I will never use the site.
• Nerfect - Mr. Walters is just one really cool guy.
• Psyops - I need to buy Retablo sometime soon and use it. Beautiful font. Cool site.

Must. Try. And. Stay. Away.