Knowledge: typography
See Also:
- business → business services → design → graphic design
- business → business services → signage
- business → publishing and printing → printing
- kids and teens → arts → graphic design → typography
Links
- Will-Harris House Writing, Design and Typography
http://www.will-harris.com - Home of Esperfonto, the web's only interactive typeface selection system, TypoFile magazine for people who use and love type, a design office with corporate ID's, business cards and illustrations, and the Point Reyes Chipmunk Observatory and Garden.
- TypeRight
http://www.typeright.org/ - Mission: to promote typefaces as creative works and to advocate their legal protection as intellectual property.
- Typographic
http://www.rsub.com/typographic/ - Information on typography from 3500 B.C. to the present day, including evolution, timeline, anatomy, image gallery, studies, glossary and related information.
- Types and Typography - A guide
http://www.cyber-north.com/fonts/ - A complete guide to the history and science of types, fonts and typography.
- Planet Typography
http://www.planet-typography.com/ - This portal dedicated to typography includes directory, news, online manual and free fonts to download. Home of The Typographic Times, a font-related eZine with interviews of type designers and portraits of typefaces.
- typogRaphic
http://www.typographic.com/ - Exploration and experimentation between typography and imagery.
- ATypI
http://www.atypi.org/ - The site of the Association Typographique International, the organisation of the international type community. Information on events, ATypI publications and conferences.
- Type Books
http://www.typebooks.org/ - Resource for publications concerning the letterform arts.
- Cavendish Typography
http://www.typography.org.uk/ - Gallery of images and text relating to typography and print through the ages.
- Name This Font
http://www.namethisfont.com/ - Encyclopedia of letterforms. Information on the author plus where to purchase the book.
- Encyclopaedia of Typography and Electronic Communication
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/profirst/encycl2.htm - A short-subject encyclopedia and glossary covering typography, printing, electronic publishing, and electronic communication.
- ABC Typography
http://abc.planet-typography.com/ - Virtual Museum of Typography.
- Dr. Leslie and The Composing Room
http://www.drleslie.com/ - MFA thesis project by Erin K. Malone explores the history of typesetting firm located in New York City.
- Cary Graphic Arts Press
http://wally.rit.edu/cary/carypress.html - Publication arm of the Melbert Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology, offering publications on the history of the graphic arts.
- The Typographic Circle
http://www.typocircle.co.uk/ - Membership organization providing information on committee, events, publications and membership.
- Character Design Standards
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/developers/fdsspec/default.htm - General rules for character shapes in Latin based languages in digital fonts. From Microsoft.com.
- Society of Typographic Aficionados
http://www.typesociety.org/ - Rochester, NY based S{o}TA is an International Organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of type, its history and development, its use in the world of print and digital imagery, its designers, and its admirers.
- LetterPerfect
http://www.letterspace.com/ - Design services, lettering tours, publications, and fonts available for purchase and download.
- Typophile
http://www.typophile.com/ - Active discussion board with font identification and type design critique forums. Sporadic features include interviews with typographers, news feed, and type design courses.
- Alphabytes
http://www.alphabytes.com/ - Dedicated to excellence in graphic design and the promotion of typography, calligraphy and the lettering arts.
- Arabic typography
http://www.arabictypography.com/ - Arabic typographical experiments.
- Typotheque
http://www.typotheque.com/ - Information about typography, free type utilities, articles on type and type design, and fonts for sale.
- All Good Things Typography
http://www.redsun.com/type/ - Information about typography: history, classification, type choice and the fontpool.
- National Print Museum
http://ireland.iol.ie/~npmuseum/ - Site of Ireland's National Print Museum. Contains a short tour of the museum, description of exhibits, a brief history of printing in Ireland and visitor information.
- Information Design Associates
http://www.ida.org.uk/ - Corporate, information design, and web design.
- TypoBlog
http://fawny.org/typoblog.html - Medium sized article, subtitled "How personal typographic Web sites are giving the musty, elitist field of typography is a stiff kick in the keister"
- Typolis
http://www.typolis.de/version1/ - In German and English, this site is an ambitious private project which details the history of alphabets, describes type classifications and provides information about designers as well as about the art of graphic design.
- The Glory of Chinese Printing
http://www.cgan.com/english/english/cpg/indexen.htm - Online exhibit that details history of printing in China, from block printing through the invention of movable wood type, brass plates, and two-color techniques.
- Commonly Confused Characters
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/reference/characters/ - Unicode and graphic examples of proper quote, hyphen, and space encoding and typographical mistakes.
- daidala
http://www.daidala.com/ - A blog by Jon Coltz. Features reviews of typefaces and observations from the life of a type lover.
- Creative Pro : Fonts Department
http://www.creativepro.com/category/home/228.html - Font news and software reviews links. Exclusive feature articles on typography from Creative Pro's staff of graphic design writers.
- Ban Comic Sans
http://bancomicsans.com/ - Download and print stickers and flyers to campaign against the font, also free comic fonts to use instead.
- Arabic Type
http://www.arabictype.com/ - Research on Arabic typography, its relationship to calligraphy and culture, and the development of new Arabic fonts.
- Greeking Machine
http://www.duckisland.com/greekmachine.asp - Lorem Ipsum generator supporting Latin and several humorous choices.
- Typographica. A Journal of Typography.
http://typographi.com/ - News, observations, and open commentary on fonts and typographic design.
- The Typophiles
http://www.typophiles.org/ - Founded 70 years ago by Frederic Goudy, Paul Bennett, and others, an educational association that encourages the appreciation and production of fine typography and bookmaking.
- The International Type Index
http://typeindex.org/ - A directory of fonts and foundries with the ambitious goal of indexing all existing fonts in the world.
- Pixel Fonts Explained
http://www.bestflashanimationsite.com/tutorials/2/ - In-depth look at the history of bitmap (pixel) typography.
- The Evolution of Type
http://www.mediumbold.com/04_thinking/type/ - Information on the main characteristics of the letterform, styles and elements of printing types, and the history of the alphabet.
- Typo.cz
http://www.typo.cz/ - Information on Central European typography includes foundry listing, software, books and general rules. In English and Czech.
- Medieval Unicode Font Initiative
http://gandalf.aksis.uib.no/mufi/ - Non-profit group of scholars working toward a solution to the problem of encoding special characters in Medieval texts written in the Latin alphabet.
- DigitalThread: TypeHaus
http://www.digitalthread.com/webdesignlinks/fonthaus/ - Contains featured foundries, honorable foundries, type resources, and typography links.
- Font Lover
http://www.fontlover.com/ - Font news from around the globe and A+ font links.
- Fontlover.com
http://www.fontlover.com/?feed=rss2 - Type news from around the globe.
- Alphabet and Letter
http://www.alphabetandletter.com/ - Information on alphabets from around the world, with chapters from "The Alphabet and Elements of Lettering" written by Frederic W. Goudy.
- BBC News: Helvetica at 50
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6638423.stm - The Helvetica font is celebrating its 50th birthday. You've probably seen it a thousand times today. Why?
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