The book from FontShop International, called "The Font Book" is the best such book on the market right now. It's expensive ($110 US was what I paid for a new copy), but it's hard to find one book that shows as many fonts that is as easy to use. If that's too steep, consider getting the Catalogs from those two foundries, if that's where your main interest lies. Frankly if you are iterested in only a couple of foundries, their web sites are just as good for seeing what they have (and it's always up to date). I would also suggest including Agfa-Monotype (http://fonts.com), since they have been including many other foundries in their collections, and are becoming one of the more comprehensive sources of fonts. Bitstream's MyFonts.com is another great font resource online, and would show Adobe, Linotype and many other foundries. What Agfa & MyFonts don't cover Phil's Fonts (http://www.philsfonts.com) often includes, so those three are good resources.

The Precision Type Reference Guide is also a decent tome, although it hasn't been updated in 5 or 6 years.

What? It has that late-90s no-frameset retro look that all the kids are after these days. You mean to say you don't like it, Stephen?

If nothing else, they ought to fix their logo in the upper left corner. It's a visual contradiction.

Yves, lucky you. I just recommended an Indie font for someone looking for a face like Vogue. I suggested Mark Simonson Studio's Mostra. He wrote back that he bought the font. One for the indies. Dan

Thanks, Dan!

Mark I recommend good work and I love your work and the other indie font producers. A fresh take on typography. Dan

I bought Mostra a few months ago, I love it.
I've yet to use it on any projects, but just knowing that I have it makes me feel nice

I hesitated putting Mostra on the CD. But I wanted to
include something useful that you couldn't get for free.
Plus, it's only one of a five weight family, so maybe
someone would like it enough to buy other weights.

I got lucky with the name Coquette, which turned out to be
much better than the name I wanted to use: Ruby Script.
When I did the usual research to make sure the name
wasn't already in use, I found out that there was a scripting
language by that name. It would have been a mess on
Google.

It's surprisingly rare.

Really? I'm under the impression that most type designers
agonize over naming their fonts. I mean, you spend all that
time on the font itself, you want to be just as careful with
the name. I think the name can be just as important as the
design and it's not easy to come up with a good one. I
almost never use the one I start out with. And I'm not
always happy with what I end up with, especially some of
my earlier ones.

Be doubly glad that you didn't name that
dandy typeface Ruby Script, Mark. There's a
cheapo WSI font by that name.

Actually, that was the other reason. I thought I might get by
with it since the font was no longer being sold and it appeared
that WSI was out of the type business. But when I saw it was
also the name of a scripting language, that clinched it.
Since it appears that it's still being sold by somebody, it's
a good thing I dropped it.

Mark at least you have to think about a name. Look at P22 they got it easy, I could hear them now "What should we call Cezanne's digitalized handwriting�"