Best Foundries
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Its possible also from Corel Draw, I remember they had cds with thousands and thousands of fonts on them, and many of the bit-stream knockoffs, you could essentially go into fleamarket and get a dated version of Corel Draw 4 back from 1997 and legally get so many fonts (mostly shitty - yes).
I am usually not in a position to buy many fonts since I am a student and I am broke, but I am trying to get shit setup this summer and buy a few. I think I'd rather support the independent foundries by buying them directly. I really like Jigsaw, and the Fedra family at Typotheque, and that site is an awesome resource with lots of info about their fonts. However, I think they are really focusing on pushing Fedra Serif Pro at the moment, so I would say they are not releasing many new typefaces consistently. However they are of the highest quality.
Also Fred Smeijers' foundry OurType has some amazing stuff available, Arnhem is a beautiful text face, and also Versa is quite nice.
Eric Olsen's Process Type Foundry also has many great releases, I recently saw Locator to set text in at really small sizes and it worked suprisingly well.