_{By Troy Leinster, Typeface Designer at Leinster Type
Published 28 February 2026}

Until now, there was no single global resource for searching the world of fonts. Finding the right typeface has always been a multi-site search process, making it difficult to compare options, build collections, or share them with colleagues and clients. Not anymore!

Type.lol is not a newcomer; it’s been a trusted foundry list for ten years, quietly serving the design community with a simple but valuable index of independent type foundries. Now it’s evolved into something far more ambitious, a transparent, open resource focused on connecting designers and their clients with a world of typefaces. For foundries, there is no curation, no hoops to jump through to join the ’club’, and for designers, it’s easy to jump right in and start making custom collections of your favourite fonts.

The .lol extension gives you the heads-up that it’s not another corporate font directory trying to look important. It’s unpretentious, playful, and built on the idea that finding the right typeface should be fun.

Mark Johnson, the creator of Type.lol is the type designer behind TrashType and a person who is genuinely invested in helping designers connect with typefaces and the people who create them. To tackle such a mammoth task, Mark created scripts to scan foundries and organise the world of fonts into a user-friendly experience. He admits it’s a rough draft at this stage, since scraping the web for every typeface in existence isn’t possible any other way, but as a foundry owner, you can claim your listing and fine-tune the information yourself, making Type.lol the first font directory that lets you edit your listing to keep it up to date.

Finding, sorting, and collecting fonts has never been this fun!

Mark describes Type.lol as “Spotify for Fonts” and once you spend some time with it, that comparison makes sense. This isn’t just a list of foundries with links, it’s a discovery platform that allows you to make your own playlists.

Find

The search and discovery tools alone are worth a visit. You can browse by foundry, typeface, or designer, and view the specimen directly within the platform, no more screenshots and jumping between foundry sites just to compare typefaces. Two features stand out in particular: the network view visualises connections between typefaces, foundries, and designers in a way that’s as beautiful as it is useful, letting you see the relationships that shape the type world. And the globe view maps foundries geographically, giving you a sense of just how global and diverse independent type truly is.

Sort

Once you start discovering, the platform provides real tools to help you make sense of what you find. Search results can be filtered by specific criteria and saved directly as collections, which means your research doesn’t evaporate the moment you close a tab. Each foundry listing comes with rich metadata, including typefaces, team members, URLs, and trial offers, so you can evaluate options without leaving the platform. 

Collect

This is where Type.lol starts to feel like a proper workflow tool rather than just a directory. Users can build and manage collections of typefaces, follow foundries and designers they love, and browse other users’ public collections for inspiration. For studios and teams, upgrade to the Pro account for US$2.99 per month to unlock unlimited collections, privacy controls, and collaborative editing, meaning you can finally build and share a curated font shortlist with a client without it living in a messy shared doc or email thread.

Just for fun

If all those ways to view and collect fonts aren’t enough, hit the T key on your keyboard to access FontTV, where you can flick through foundries like TV channels while listening to a radio station from the country each foundry calls home.

The type world just got a whole lot smaller

Whether you’re a graphic designer hunting for the perfect typeface for a rebrand or a creative director building a library of go-to foundries for your studio, Type.lol is worth an hour of your time. I think you’ll find it hard to leave.

A good starting point is to watch Mark’s intro video below, which walks you through everything the platform offers in an easy-to-digest way. Then head over to type.lol, set up a profile and start exploring. If you’re a foundry, claim your foundry page and update your details so you’re ready for graphic designers to start building their collections.

Follow Leinster Type on Type.lol and keep an eye out for some future collections of my favourite fonts.

If this article has been useful, share it with a colleague who spends too much time hunting for fonts, they’ll thank you for it :D