Ascender, the company that distributes Microsoft’s core fonts such as Georgia, Verdana and Tahoma, has a great offer available right now.

The Creativity Font Pack is a nice selection of OpenType fonts available for $20. You’d think that the selection would be a bunch of cheap shareware fonts, but no. They actually licensed a few typefaces that are really nice. There are a few stupid display faces that are throwaways, but the remaining selection is nice.

Just look up the names to see the value. The Font Bureau typefaces are usually over $40 a piece. Today Sans is $35 a piece. Coquette? $29.

These are a few of my favorites, in no particular order:

• Briem™ Operina – An Arrighi chancery.
• Columbus™ (Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic) – A revival of a typeface used in Spain in 1513, and an italic by Granjon from 1543.
• Coquette™ – An interesting and playful script form Mark Simonson.
• Eagle™ Bold & Light – Variations on a type from Morris Fuller Benton designed by the fine folks at the Font Bureau.
• Goudy Text™ – An “old English” or blackletter typeface designed by the master, Frederic Goudy.
• Skyline Bold Condensed™ – Another Font Bureau typeface, this one a revival of a “Modern”-style typeface by Imré Reiner.
• Today Sans™ (Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic) – A humanist sans that I particularly enjoy.