Our attention was grabbed by a clever fonts comparison system in MyFonts‘ website: using a little sliding widget in the left sidebar, you can browse through thousands items, comparing the A glyph of available typefaces. You can get a more detailed preview of your type by simply hovering over the letter with your mouse.

I’m a typomaniac, I confess, and my favorites ecommerce websites are most of all digital foundries’ websites. Usually this kind of website displays clean, sophisticated layout grids with minimal graphics elements such as horizontal dividers and flat geometrical buttons. Big headings and wide, spacious whitespaces (which basically means removing all the graphic overbearing elements from [...]

A classic horizontal tab navigation with 3 different states (selected, normal, mouse over) for each item. Fontshop is the foundry founded by Erik Spiekermann.