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Originally Posted by NandaDncer
Also what should I be looking for in usability in a font... is there any font qualities I should be wary of?
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You can purchase Adobe fonts at Adobe's web site,
www.adobe.com . I haven't purchased fonts in a l-o-n-g time, so I can't comment on how their pricing compares to other sources. I think their Sanvito font is pretty for body text on flyers.
I like to use Black Chancery as a headline font on flyers. It's a widely-available free font, search by "black chancery" and you'll find a bunch of choices. Matura is nice for this too, but I think that's one you have to pay for.
Regarding font features, if you're using a Windows machine, the choices are typically TrueType and Postscript. If you have a new version of Windows (such as Vista), you can drag Postscript fonts into your font folder the same way you would a TrueType. I'm not sure whether that's possible on Windows XP or not - I haven't tried it there. I DO know that older versions of Windows such as Windows Millennium Edition and Windows 2000, and their predecessors, do NOT support dragging Postscript fonts into your font folder, you have to convert them to TrueType first. So buying a TrueType font is a sure thing on Windows, buying Postscript may or may not be okay depending on your Windows version.
Some fonts come with multiple versions, typically a bold version, an italic version, and a regular version. Sometimes there are other versions too, such as "Narrow", etc. You'll get the nicest looking results (and the most versatility with the software on your computer) if you get each of the versions available. Some software is "smart" enough to convert a regular font to italic simply by making it slant, whereas other software won't let you italicize text in that font unless you have the italic version installed. (This problem with needing all the components installed has been true in the past of Adobe products such as Illustrator and Photoshop, I don't know whether it's still true. In contrast, Microsoft Word will try to invent an italicized version on the fly for you.)
Some fonts come with accented characters, such as the letter "e" in the dance term plié, whereas often the free fonts don't come with those. So if this feature matters to you (it doesn't to everybody), then you should check how complete the character set is in the font you're buying.