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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.
http://www.will-harris.com
Mission: to promote typefaces as creative works and to advocate their legal protection as intellectual property.
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Welcome to TypeRight We are a diverse group of type designers, developers, foundries, and aficionados who are working together to promote typefaces as creative works and to advocate their legal protection as intellectual...Information on typography from 3500 B.C. to the present day, including evolution, timeline, anatomy, image gallery, studies, glossary and related information.
http://www.rsub.com/typographic/
A complete guide to the history and science of types, fonts and typography.
http://www.cyber-north.com/fonts
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.
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Planet typography Quid typography typographic art, news, ressources typefaces foundries, downloadable types history of printing biographies, regional monographies, priods institutions organisations, museums exhibitions, libraries calligraphy latin calligraphers arabic/hebrew, chinese/japanese graphic design books,...Exploration and experimentation between typography and imagery.
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Typographic Temp Remix ...The site of the Association Typographique International, the organisation of the international type community. Information on events, ATypI publications and conferences.
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ATypI ATypI Delegates can post their stories here too. Posted 15 September 2005 Read more Conference check-in Where and when to check in once you arrive in Helsinki. Posted 10 September 2005...Resource for publications concerning the letterform arts.
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Type Books: for the well-read typographer. This website makes use of frames. An HTML 3.0 compliant or newer web browser is recommended for best results. Updated March 19, 2002 Stay on top with our New Books...Gallery of images and text relating to typography and print through the ages.
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The Cavendish Gallery of Print and Typography ...Encyclopedia of letterforms. Information on the author plus where to purchase the book.
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Name This Font Encyclopedia of Letterforms, a new font identifier and selector ...A short-subject encyclopedia and glossary covering typography, printing, electronic publishing, and electronic communication.
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Encyclopaedia of Typography and Electronic Communication American copyright conventions. DesignerFonts, Expresso, FontWizard, LanguageGroup, MatchMaker, PC-FontManager, Production First Software, TypEngin, Typographic International, Ultrafont, Ultrafonts, UniTest, WebGlott, and WebSafe are trademarks or registered trademarks of Production First Software....Typographic books and artworks by Jill Yelland.
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Untitled Document ...Information on the main characteristics of the letterform, styles and elements of printing types, and the history of the alphabet.
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Concentric Dial-Up Internet L you entered cannot be located at this site. The domain may no longer exist here, or you may have an invalid URL....MFA thesis project by Erin K. Malone explores the history of typesetting firm located in New York City.
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Dr. Leslie The Composing Room Originally conceived as a Hypercard Interactive experience, the work has been translated and modified for the Web so that others may benefit from this design history research. Introduction Back to...Provides research of typeface names to facilitate designers in name selection. Also provides information on Frederic Goudy and offers typographic links. From the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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The Goudy International Center Overview of the Center Mission Statement Request a Search Submit Typefaces Typographic Links Goudy Gallery What's New FAQ Copyright © 1997 Goudy International Center Recreated on 3/8/97, Updated on 4/19/97...Membership organization providing information on committee, events, publications and membership.
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The Typographic Circle The first official event will be the TDC exhibition which we hosted successfully last year at CHI Ad. This year, however, our friends at JWT will provide the space and...General rules for character shapes in Latin based languages in digital fonts. From Microsoft.com.
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Character Design Standards Contents Character design standards Overview Uc Lc Figures Spaces Diacritics Punctuation Monetary Math Symbol Character design standards contents Overview and Bibliography Uppercase Lowercase Figures Spaces Diacritics Punctuation part 1 Punctuation part...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.
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SOTA The Society of Typographic Aficionados Gotham as the city celebrated its letter-filled heritage. TypeCon2005 took place at Parsons School of Design in New York, July 20-24, 2005, and was presented by SOTA with the Type...Typography news headlines, 'link of the day','book recommendations' and a constantly updated database of over 500 type and typography related sites on the Web.
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Microsoft Typography Typography home page is located here....Design services, lettering tours, publications, and fonts available for purchase and download.
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Welcome to LetterPerfect Care to sign our guestbook click here) NOW, fulfilling secure on-line orders instantly A T S P E C I A L 2 0 D I S C O U...Active discussion board with font identification and type design critique forums. Sporadic features include interviews with typographers, news feed, and type design courses.
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Typographic Collaboration Typophile Please report all bugs to the Bug Report Thread...Dedicated to excellence in graphic design and the promotion of typography, calligraphy and the lettering arts.
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Rob Leuschke's Alphabytes, Lettering, Typography, Calligraphy and Fonts Alphabytes has been on the World Wide Web, dedicated to excellence in graphic design and the promotion of typography, calligraphy, and the lettering arts. View Rob's portfolio and see how...Arabic typographical experiments.
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Arabic typography a communication platform for Arabic Type. Flash 5 plugin is required in order to view this site. Designed maintained by Tarek Atrissi Corporate Calligraphy Samir Sayegh All rights reserved Tarek Atrissi Design The Netherlands...Information about typography, free type utilities, articles on type and type design, and fonts for sale.
http://www.typotheque.com/
Information on Central European typography: rules, links and other valuable pieces of information.
http://euro.typo.cz/
Information about typography: history, classification, type choice and the fontpool.
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All Good Things Typography Pool is the font site to be reckoned with! MyFonts.com 151; A showcase of the world’s fonts available from one easy-to-use Internet portal. It provides the largest collection of fonts...Features a history of typography, with classifications of type and structure of letterforms.
http://counterspace.motivo.com/
Corporate, information design, and web design.
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Information Design Associates. Graphic Design, Information Design, Website Design, Catalogue Design, Brochures, Exhibitions Associates has specialised in helping its clients increase their business by providing quality design solutions complemented by quality printed products. By carefully analysing its clients requirements in today's market place...Medium sized article, subtitled "How personal typographic Web sites are giving the musty, elitist field of typography is a stiff kick in the keister"
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TypoBlog (Joe Clark) Web sites are giving the musty, elitist field of typography is a stiff kick in the keister [First published in the 8220;LV:VI” issue of Print, 2002] I grew up in...Non-profit group of scholars working toward a solution to the problem of encoding special characters in Medieval texts written in the Latin alphabet.
http://www.hit.uib.no/mufi/
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.
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TYPOlis Typografie und Gestaltung Version 1 Untersttzung von notblue siehe auchBodoniLangeTschicholdZapf...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.
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The Glory of Chinese Printing All captions are provided in Chinese and English in Chinese Graphic Arts Net. This item shows the history of Chinese printing form its origin to its later development including many...Unicode and graphic examples of proper quote, hyphen, and space encoding and typographical mistakes.
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Commonly Confused Characters With the advent of desktop publishing in the 1980's, typesetting suddenly changed from a spectator sport to participatory. Along with this, a lot of the subtleties got lost for many....A blog by Jon Coltz. Features reviews of typefaces and observations from the life of a type lover.
http://www.daidala.com/
Font news and software reviews links. Exclusive feature articles on typography from Creative Pro's staff of graphic design writers.
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Fonts Department on creativepro.com Berry takes a walk down the U&lc memory lane and wonders why no one is publishing a big, visually sophisticated magazine with experimental typography today. Full Story creativepro.com Printing Center...In German and English, a 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.
http://www.typolis.de/version1/indexe.htm
Read an essay discussing the times, technologies, and forms of type.
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A Brief History of Type Phinney contributes the following discussion of the history. Foreword It is difficult to cover all the developments and movements of typography in a short space. My separation of evolving technologies...Download and print stickers and flyers to campaign against the font, also free comic fonts to use instead.
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ban comic sans Putting the Sans in Comic Sans putting the sans in comic sans...Research on Arabic typography, its relationship to calligraphy and culture, and the development of new Arabic fonts.
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Arabic Type/ Nadine Chahine Independent Arabic Type: Compiled, Designed, and implemented by Nadine Chahine Flash viewer is needed....Lorem Ipsum generator supporting Latin and several humorous choices.
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Duck Island The Premier Portal of the Pacific Northwest Please enter the number of paragraphs you would like produced (50 Max) New Free Service Available for Writers and Web Site Administrators Thanks to everyone who has sent positive feedback...News, observations, and open commentary on fonts and typographic design.
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Typographica. A Journal of Typography. Francisco is the design epicenter of the West Coast, but its subway station labels are cringeworthy. The original hanging Univers placards are okay (despite the clumsy spacing but you can’t...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.
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The Typophiles Appreciation Production of Fine Typography Bookmaking For more than seventy years the Typophiles have shared their abiding pleasure in fine printing through convivial meetings and handsomely produced publications. The Typophiles is a not-for-profit educational association that...A directory of fonts and foundries with the ambitious goal of indexing all existing fonts in the world.
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TypeIndex.org The International Type Index Index is a free project from a non-profit organisation. Our objective? To build a searchable database of all fonts from all foundries, from all the world, to the benefit of...In-depth look at the history of bitmap (pixel) typography.
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Pixel Fonts Explained Best Flash Animation Site.com V2 Gillespie is a graphic designer who specialises in electronic media and is based in London, UK. Since 1996, he has published Web Page Design for Designers, a site dedicated to...Design services, lettering tours, publications, and fonts available for purchase and download.
http://www.letterspace.com/
A complete guide to the history and science of types, fonts and typography.
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Type and Typography In the struggle upward from barbarism, mankind learned to turn ideas into speech and, centuries later, into writing. Writing thoughts down by hand was slow and cumbersome; a quicker way...Gallery of images and text relating to typography and print through the ages.
http://www.typography.org.uk/
Arabic typographical experiments.
http://www.arabictypography.com/
Corporate, information design, and web design.
http://www.ida.org.uk/
News, observations, and open commentary on fonts and typographic design.
http://typographi.com/
A directory of fonts and foundries with the ambitious goal of indexing all existing fonts in the world.
http://typeindex.org/
Contains featured foundries, honorable foundries, type resources, and typography links.
http://www.digitalthread.com/vintage/fonthaus/
Information on the main characteristics of the letterform, styles and elements of printing types, and the history of the alphabet.
http://www.mediumbold.com/04_thinking/type/
Non-profit group of scholars working toward a solution to the problem of encoding special characters in Medieval texts written in the Latin alphabet.
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Medieval Unicode Font Initiative This site is managed by scholars in Medieval studies with the aim of establishing a consensus on the use of Unicode among medievalists. It is not affiliated with or endorsed...