Typography
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All Good Things Typography
Information about typography: history, classification, type choice and the fontpool.
Alphabytes
Dedicated to excellence in graphic design and the promotion of typography, calligraphy and the lettering arts.
Arabic Type
Research on Arabic typography, its relationship to calligraphy and culture, and the development of new Arabic fonts.
ATypI
The site of the Association Typographique International, the organisation of the international type community. Information on events, ATypI publications and conferences.
Ban Comic Sans
Download and print stickers and flyers to campaign against the font, also free comic fonts to use instead.
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.
Cavendish Typography
Gallery of images and text relating to typography and print through the ages.
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.
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.
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.
daidala
A blog by Jon Coltz. Features reviews of typefaces and observations from the life of a type lover.
Dr. Leslie and The Composing Room
MFA thesis project by Erin K. Malone explores the history of typesetting firm located in New York City.
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.
Greeking Machine
http://www.duckisland.com/greekmachine.asp
Lorem Ipsum generator supporting Latin and several humorous choices.
LetterPerfect
Design services, lettering tours, publications, and fonts available for purchase and download.
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.
Microsoft Typography
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/default.asp
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.
Name This Font
Encyclopedia of letterforms. Information on the author plus where to purchase the book.
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.
Pixel Fonts Explained
http://www.bestflashanimationsite.com/tutorials/2
In-depth look at the history of bitmap (pixel) 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.
Society of Typographic Aficionados
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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