Since I occassionally dabble with graphics and web design, I tend to collect fonts. But I’m just a hobbiest, not a professional designer, so I usually can’t justify purchasing professional font sets. So I bookmark the occassional “free fonts” website. Which is why I’m glad I found out about FontLeech: The Free Font Blog.
Hey, look — it’s powered by WordPress. Awesome. 
Typography design patterns for the web
When I’m putting a new web site together, one thing that sometimes bugs me is choosing which fonts to use. I’ll typically throw together a list of fonts that I like, decide to use this set of serif fonts for these page elements, and that set of sans-serif fonts for those other elements, select some fallback choices for my stylesheet, and let it go at that. Obviously, I’m no designer — or I’d be saying ‘typeface’ instead of ‘font’ — but I’d like to be able to make ‘better’ choices for my fonts.
I’ve done a little bit of searching, but I haven’t found what I’m looking for. [...]