La Fontaine aux Lettres

Reader's Question: Could you tell me, does Letterfountain include information about websites where I can download the fonts discussed?

Joep Pohlen: Letter Fountain has extensive indexes and one of them is the Index of typefaces and another is the Index of type designers. In both indexes you will find the foundries behind each typeface mentioned in the book. With that information you can easily find a distributor on the internet.
Above that I can give you a couple of internet links were you can find most of the typefaces:
www.myfonts.com
www.fontshop.com
www.fonts.com
For finding similar fonts you can look at www.identifont.com
There are many more but on these sites you will find 99% of the quality fonts presented in Letter Fountain, also those from individual designers and small foundries.

Reader's comment: As a constructive critics please read Wikipedia
where you can see that a better term is Typeface Letters rather than Letters Fountain.

Joep Pohlen: As the author of the book I have chosen the name thoroughly. There are a couple of reasons why the name Letter Fountain was chosen for the English version. One reason is because the original version is called Letterfontein in Dutch. The reason we have chosen the word 'Letter' in the English title is because in the past a single character of a typeface that was casted in lead was called a letter in English. You can see that in terms like 'letterspacing' that are still used today. Because Letter Fountain also deals with the history and the origin of our typefaces, we thought that it fits well with the contents of the book. So, for more than 500 years a character was called a letter. And that fact we also wanted to celebrate in the title.