Recently I had stumbled across a useful website, which gives more than 9800 fonts, all in various shapes and forms, and that too without seeking a single penny from your wallet.
Enter www.creamundo.com.
This site is a pure joy for the designers and calligraphy writers, who see pictures in letters. Although I am not one of those kinds, but still I had enjoyed my stay at this site and also downloaded a few of them.
You can type your own text on this site and see how does it actually look like in your chosen font. See the results of the text "Manish Garg is a nice guy"
One drawback however is that the site is poorly crafted and there is only one page on which the entire information is given. There is no toolbar or navigation bar.