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Books
Ahrens, Tim. 2009, Size-specific Adjustments to Type Designs (page), Mark Batty Publisher, New York.
Berry, John. 2002, Language, Culture, Type: international type design in the age of Unicode, Graphis, New York.
Bringhurst, Robert. 1997, The Elements of Typographic Style (review, web, lecture), Hartley & Marks, Toronto.
Cabarga, Leslie. 2004, Learn FontLab Fast, Iconoclassics, Los Angeles.
Carter, Sebastian. 2002, Twentieth Century Type Designers, Lund Humphries, Hampshire.
De Jong, Purvis. 2005, Creative Type: A Sourcebook of Classical and Contemporary Letterforms, Thames & Hudson, London.
Froshaug, A. 2000, Typography & texts / Documents of a life (synopsis), Hyphen Press, London.
Frutiger, Adrian. 1989, Signs and Symbols, Studio Editions, London.
Frutiger, Adrian. 2009, Typefaces (page, review), Birkhäuser, Basel.
Gill, Eric. 2001, An Essay On Typography, Lund Humhries, Hampshire.
Gordon, Bob. 2001, Making Digital Type Looking Good, Thames & Hudson, London.
Heller, S. and Fili, L. 1999, Typology: Type Design from the Victorian Era to the Digital Age (review), Chronicle, San Francisco.
Hurst, Mark. 2007, Bit Literacy (sample), Good Experience Press, New York.
Kane, John. 2002, A Type Primer, London, Laurence King, 2002.
Kinross, R. and Hochuli, J. 1996, Designing Books: Practice and Theory (synopsis), Hyphen Press, London.
Kunz, Willi. 2000, Typography: Macro- + Microaesthetics, Niggli, Sulgen.
Level J. and Newman B. 2000, The Precision Type: Font Reference Guide, version 5.0, Hartley & Marks, Vancouver.
Loxley, Simon. 2006, Type: The Secret History of Letters (page, toc, review), I.B. Tauris, London.
Lupton, Ellen. 2004, Thinking with Type (review and bibliography), Princeton Architectural Press (page), New York.
Mediavilla, Claude. 1993, Calligraphie, Imprimerie Nationale, Paris.
Noordzij Gerritt. 2001, Letterletter, Hartley & Marks, Vancouver.
Prestianni, John. 2001, Calligraphic Type Design in The Digital Age, Gingko Press, Corte Madera.
Rosendorf, Theodore. 2009, The Typographic Desk Reference (page), Oak Knoll Press, New Castle.
Smeijers, Fred. 1996, Counterpunch: Making Type in the Sixteenth Century, Designing Typefaces Now, Hyphen Press, London.
Spiekermann, Erik. 1993, Stop Stealing Sheep and Find Out How Type Works (Chapter III .pdf), Adobe Press, Mountain View.
Tracy, Walter. 1986, Letters of Credit: A View of Type Design (review); David R. Godine (page), Boston.
Truong; Siebert; Spiekermann (edited by). 2006, FontBook Digital Type Reference (page), FontShop International, Berlin.
Tschichold, Jan. 1995, The New Typography (review), University of California Press, Berkeley.
Unger, Gerard. 2007, While You‘re Reading (press), Mark Batty Publisher, New York.
VanderLans, Rudy. 2009, Emigre #70: The Look Back Issue (press), Gingko Press, Berkeley.
Young Doyald. 1999, Fonts & Logos; Logotypes & Letterforms (review), Delphi Press, Sherman Oaks.
Warde, Beatrice. 1956, The Crystal Goblet (or Printing Should be Invisible) (text, lecture), Sixteen Essays on Typography, Cleveland.
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Typography Papers. 1996, No. 1-8. University of Reading, Department of Typography: reading.ac.uk.
Baseline Magazine: baselinemagazine.com. 1979, Kent, England.
Blažek, Filip (edited by). 2003, TYPO Magazine: magtypo.cz (wiki) Praha, Czech Republic.
Boardley, John. 2007, I Love Typography, Blog (review); WLT Search Engine (index).
Coles, Stephen (edited by). 2002, Typographica: typographica.org; Typeface and Type Book Reviews.
Lubalin, Herb. 1973, U&lc Magazine, Online Index.
Richardson, Margaret (edited by). 2007, FontShop Font Magazine: fontmag.com (review).
Rocha, Claudio (edited by). 2009, TIPOITALIA Magazine: tipoitalia.it; Grafiche Antiga.
Everson, Michael. 1993, Bibliography of Typographyand scripts, Cathair na Mart, Ireland.
Rose, David. 2003, An Annotated Bibliography of Typography, Letterpress Printing & Other Arts of the Book, Five Roses Press, New York.
Periodicals on Typography, Online Index.
Typophile Books, Online Library and List.
Typeradio: typeradio.org. 2004, Stream and Podcast Station.
Type Conferences, Online Index.
Links
Type Design
“Typeface” Definition, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typeface
“Thinking with Type” by E. Lupton, www.thinkingwithtype.com
Underware Type Basics, www.typeworkshop.com/type-basics
Adobe Typography Primer, www.adobe.com/education/pdf/type_primer.pdf
Character Design Standards, www.microsoft.com/typography
TypeCulture Articles and Essays, www.typeculture.com
“Typography Basics” handout by A. Segalini, www.as8.it/handouts/typography-basics.pdf
MATD Reading Typeface Design Master Class, http://wiki.typefacedesign.org
KABK Type and Media, http://ilovetypography.com/kabk
ESAD Personal Views Lectures, www.esad.pt/personalviews, www.jimhargreaves.com/esad
Lettering, http://typophile.com/wiki/lettering
FontShop Education, www.fontshop.com/services/education
“Type Is Art” Interactive Project by J. Rodriguez, http://typophile.com/node/47413, www.typeisart.com
“A Brief Guide to Basic Typography” by D. Ross, www.djr.com/id/sheet.pdf
“Type, Handwriting & Lettering” by G. Briem, http://briem.ismennt.is
“My Typography Course” by J.F. Porchez, www.typofonderie.com/edu, issuu.com/jfp/typeface-course
“The Em” by C. Highsmith, http://type101.fontbureau.com/Em
“The Em and Sidebearings” threads, http://typophile.com/wiki/Em, typophile.com/Em, typophile.com/sidebearings
“Corporate Type” by E. Spiekermann, http://typophile.com/corporatetype.pdf
“Designing Type(faces)” by G. Everet, http://george-everet.blog/designing-typefaces
“Font Distribution and Marketing: foundry, reseller, solo” by S. Coles, http://typographica.org/001157.php
“Against Anti-foundationalism” by E. Earls, www.theapolloprogram.com, typeculture.com/essays/article12.pdf
“New Fonts: A Graphic Designer’s Perspective” by Hoefler and Frere-Jones, www.typography.com/new-fonts
Font Glyph Synopsis, www.as8.it/type/font-glyph-synopsis
Bezier (Spline) Curves, cse.unsw.edu.au/splines, math.ubc.ca/bezier, processing.org/bezier
Curve Compensation, http://briem.ismennt.is/curves
The Eyeballing Game (Optical Geometry Test), http://woodgears.ca/eyeball
Inkscape + Spiro, www.youtube.com/spiro, http://levien.com/spiro
“Vector Drawing Mistakes” at Typies, http://typies.blogspot.com/2006/11/vdm
“Digital Type Primer” by K. Tam, http://keithtam.net/type-primer.pdf
“Drawn to Digital” by E. Berliner, www.vikburian.net/dtd-thesis.pdf
“Oldrich Menhart” by V. Burian, www.vikburian.net/menhart-thesis.pdf
“Why Study Typography”, http://typophile.com/node/29108
“Type Design Philosophy” by M. Majoor, www.typotheque.com/articles/type_philosophy, http://scalafont.com
“Miscellanea; Important Aspects of Typeface Design” by G. Munch, www.gmunch.com/typomisc
”Type Hunger, Lettering and Type” by E. Lupton, www.printmag.com/article/type-hunger
“TypeEdu” by H. Famira, www.typedu.org
“Continuing Studies in Typography” by I. Strizver, www.itcfonts.com/ulc/continuing-studies
Italics and Oblique How-To, http://typophile.com/wiki/oblique, briem.ismennt.is/italic, typophile.com/node/49550
‘S’ design, http://typophile.com/node/13036
Text Figures (Numerals), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/text_figures
OSF Figures – Old Style, Text and Lining, www.fontshop.com/fontfeed/osf-lf-tf
Numbers at Hoefler & Frere-Jones, www.typography.com/numbers/overview.php
Font Bureau One-Line Type Specimen, www.fontbureau.com/specimens.pdf
Live Pen Calligraphic Drawing Software, http://01-lab.com/livepen
KalliCulator Automatic Calligraphy, www.kalliculator.com; blog-entry
“Arabic Calligraphy as a Typographic Exercise” by J. Kaestle, ilovetypography.com/arabic-calligraphy, typophile.com/arabic
Khatt Foundation (Center for Arabic Typography), www.khtt.net
“Krazy About K” by P. Patton, www.aiga.org/content/krazy-about-k
“An Alphabet Book” by B. Fry, http://acg.media.mit.edu/fry/alphabetbook
“Rhythm in Type Design” by A. Lo Celso, www.pampatype.com/escritos
“Interletrado, Estudio de Los Blancos” by J. Gaitto, www.catedragaitto.com.ar/interletrado.pdf
“Design a Bold From a Regular” http://typophile.com/node/20709
“Ductus and Glyph Identity”, http://typophile.com/node/7740
“Family How-To”, http://typophile.com/wiki/Family_how-to
“Styles, Weights, Widths; It’s All in The (Type) Family” by Y. Peters, http://fontfeed.com/type-family
“Spacing Essay” by F. de Mello, www.fermello.org/spacing_essay.pdf
“The Value of Type” by E. van Blokland, http://letterror.com/content/valueoftype
“Call It What It Is” by J. Downer, www.emigre.com/editorial/callitwhat
“Type Is Designed By Real People With Real Feelings” by Y. Peters, www.typographer.org/type&people
“Font Design as Software ?”, www.typographer.org/2005.11.01_digests
“Development of Sanserif in 20th”, http://keithtam.net/sanserif.pdf
“The Human Side of Sans Serif” by J.D. Berry, www.creativepro.com/story/human-sans
“The Revival of Slab Serif in 20th”, http://keithtam.net/slabserif.pdf
“The Creation of FF Unit Slab” by Y. Peters, http://fontfeed.com/the-creation-of-ff-unit-slab
Oketz, An Introduction to Hebrew Type, http://oketz.com, http://typophile.com/oketz
“Women in Type”, 29489, 6414, 19397, 18251, non-existent, unseen-hands
“Leipziger Lives Again”, by T. Ahrens, www.graphic-design.com/lapture
“TeX TypeSpec” by S. Moye, www.ctan.org/tex-archive/TypeSpec.pdf
“Five Steps to Better Typography”, by M. Boulton, www.markboulton.co.uk
“Cycles” Text Font by S. Stone, www.stonetypefoundry.com/cycles
“Unger‘s Workshop at Reading” by A. Cavedoni, http://cavedoni.com/reading/2008/10/unger-workshop
“Notes on Arabic Font Specimen” by K. Luecke, www.kltf.de/arabic-font-specimen
Ornamental Typography at BibliOdyssey, http://bibliodyssey.blog/ornamental-typography
Typography and Lettering Pool, www.flickr.com/groups/type/pool
Handwriting, Lettering and Calligraphy Inspiration, www.smashingmagazine.com/lettering-and-calligraphy
“Characters and Identity Manifesto” by A. Segalini, http://ieu.edu.tr/segalini/design/k&k-manifesto.pdf
Cyrus Highsmith Interview, typographica.org, aiga.org/rebel-without-a-caslon, atlantamagazine.com, myfonts.com/highsmith
“Learning the Craft Through Study and Apprenticeship” by C. Highsmith, http://eyemagazine.com/highsmith
“Detesto la Calli-grafia” by S. Polano, www.polano.eu
“The Atlantic; Talks Typography” interview with M. Bierut, http://pentagram.blog/bierut
“Graphic Designer vs. Typographer” thread, www.typophile.com/node/15197
“Typography Is a Grid” by A. Froshaug, www.hyphenpress.co.uk/journal/grid
“No, There Are Not Enough Typefaces Already” by C. Highsmith, http://type101.rss/highsmith, zahar.livejournal.ru
The Boston Globe Interviews David Berlow, www.boston.com/business/articles/2008/05/25/berlow
“Crimes Against Typography” by S. Heller, www.aiga.org/crimes-against-typography
“10 Common Typography Mistakes” by B. Hoff, www.thedesigncubicle.com/10-common-typography-mistakes
“About Default Lining Figures and Building Fonts” thread by D. Reynolds, www.facebook.com/reynolds/figures/default
“Stretching Type; Type Taboo” thread, www.typophile.com/node/34401
“Type Size” by E. Lupton, www.papress.com/thinkingwithtype/size
“What the Font You Choose Says About You” by Bennett and Black, www.newsweek.com/type-choice
“How Much Do I Charge My Client” thread, http://typophile.com/node/clients
Letter as Image, www.letterasimage.com
LetterPlayground, www.letterplayground.com
Daily Drop Cap, http://dailydropcap.com
House Letters & Ligatures Exhibition by House Industries, www.houseind.com/show
Type Design Rules-of-Thumb, http://edweb.sdsu.edu/ET650/TypeRules
Fine Typography by Monotype, www.fonts.com/articles/fine-typography
Typester Mapping, http://typophile.com/content/typester
Typographic Education Forum, http://typophile.com/edu/forum
Typeface Design at Reading, www.flickr.com/groups/MAtd, www.reading.ac.uk/type
Typophile Pool, www.flickr.com/groups/typophile/pool
Type Directory Club, www.tdc.org/contents
Adobe Type Licensing Information, www.adobe.com/type/legal
End User License Agreement (EULA), http://typophile.com/wiki/eula
Type Classification
Typeface Classification Schemes, http://typophile.com/typeface-classification-schemes
Letters Relationship handout, www.as8.it/handouts/relationship-chart.pdf
Typeface Anatomy handout, www.as8.it/handouts/type-classification.pdf
Vox 13 handout, www.as8.it/handouts/vox13-fonts.pdf
ParaType Font Classification, www.paratype.com/help/class
Serif Types Small Chart, www.as8.it/type/serif-types.gif
Classification by E. Lupton, www.papress.com/thinkingwithtype/classification
Type Terminology by J. Boardley (iLT), Humanist, Old-Style, Transitional, Didone
Fonts and Designers
MyFonts, www.myfonts.com; review
Identyfont, www.identifont.com
Typedia, http://typedia.com
“Font or Typeface” by Y. Peters, http://fontfeed.com/font-or-typeface
Typebase portal, www.typebase.com
FontShop TypeNavigator, http://typenav.com; browser, www.fontshop.com
Global Type Searching For Typefaces, www.global-type.org
Adobe Type Library Classification, www.adobe.com/type/classifications
TypeSQL Typeface Connection Visualization, www.typesql.com
Type Designers, carleton.ca/devroye/designers, linotype.com/designers, myfonts.com/persons
Typophile Designers List, http://typophile.com/wiki/designers
Luc Devroye Database, carleton.ca/devroye/fonts
Font Identification Guides by M. Yanega, script, serif, sans, foundries
WLT “We Love Typography” by Boardley and Pätilä, http://welovetypography.com
Linotype Keywords List, www.linotype.com/keywordlist
Fontscape: Period, www.fontscape.com/period
Veer Pool, www.flickr.com/groups/veer/pool
PhotoLettering, www.photolettering.com, idsgn.org/introducing-photo-lettering
Fontshop Gallery, www.fontshop.com/fonts/gallery
Periodic Table of Typefaces, www.behance.net/squidspot, squidspot.com/type/table
TypeCity, www.veer.com/ideas/typecity
Die 100 Besten Schriften, www.100besteschriften.de
“Typelist” by P. Shaw, www.tdc.org/reviews/typelist
“Typefaces No One Gets Fired for Using” by C. Moll, www.cameronmoll.com/type
“Typefaces For Corporate Design” by Smashing Editorial, www.smashingmagazine.com/type/corporate
“Internet :-) :-( Smilings or Emoticons” by A. Harmon, www.nytimes.com/smilings, designjunction.com/smilings
FF DIN Microsite, http://dinfont.com
“Modern Suite: Figgins and Scoth Roman” by N. Shinn, www.fontshop.com/specimen/modern-suite.pdf, fonts
MyFonts “Creative Characters”, www.myfonts.com/newsletters/cc
MyFonts “In Your Face”, www.myfonts.com/newsletters/iyf
MyFonts “Rising Stars”, www.myfonts.com/newsletters/rs
Legit Free Fonts, http://typophile.com/wiki/free
“Free Fonts Manifesto” by E. Lupton, www.elupton.com/ffm, freefontmanifesto.com
Pixel Fonts License-Free, www.alvit.de/pixelfonts
Free Quality Fonts List by V. Friedman, www.alvit.de/license-free-fonts, pt.2, pt.3
Free Quality Fonts by J. Buivenga, www.josbuivenga.nl, www.myfonts.com/foundry/exljbris
Free Fonts 2009 Collection, http://creativenerds.co.uk/2009/free-fonts
“Robert Farrelly on Free Fonts…” thread comment, http://typophile.com/node/51522/comment/311510
Open Font Library, http://openfontlibrary.org
Open Baskerville Project, http://klepas.org/openbaskerville
“Fonts” by J. Kottke, http://kottke.org/tag/fonts
“Favourite Fonts” by D.J. Ross, 2009
Typographica Favorite Typefaces, 2006, 2007, 2008; @delicious
FontShop Best Releases, 2008, 2009
MyFonts Best Fonts, 2008, 2009
Typo.cz Font of the week, www.typo.cz
Typo.cz Foundries List, www.typo.cz/odkazy
LT Fonts in Focus, www.linotype.com/fontsinfocus
Typofonderie Font Discoveries, www.typofonderie.com/alphabets/fontdiscoveries
Post Typography ‘Alphabet’ Exhibition, www.posttypography.com/alphabet
“Creative Alphabets” by R. Miller, http://reubenmiller.typepad.com
“Creative Alphabets” by L. Frank, http://flavorwire.com/tag/typography
“Weapons of Mass Seduction and Reduction” posters by M. Giesser, www.behance.net/giesser
Go Font Ur Self*, www.gofonturself.com.au
Tropical 1950s Retro Type Inspiration, www.arkivatropika.com
Alternatives to Helvetica, http://fontfeed.com/alternatives-to-helvetica
Lucida by C. Bigelow and K. Holmes, www.ascendercorp.com/bigelow-holmes
Arno Pro by R. Slimbach, http://typographica.org/reviews/arno, www.adobe.com/type/arno
“Calligraphic Type Design in the Digital Age” by S. Taylor (H. Zapf), http://sfpl.ca/zapfest
“Memories of Adrian Frutiger” by M. Comte, www.mstudiostalk.com/memories-of-frutiger
“Frutiger Talk” by M. Simonson, www.marksimonson.com/frutiger-talk.pdf
“Ken Barber Interview” by T. Wilkins, www.typetheory.com/ken-barber
“Our Favorite Fonts” http://typographi.com/000969.php
“The Logos of Web 2.0” by S. Coles, www.fontshop.com/fontfeed/web2.0
“Familiar Faces” by A. Haley, www.unc.edu/FamiliarFaces
“A Few Good Fonts” by E. Lupton, www.papress.com/thinkingwithtype
“Reasons to Choose a Particular Typeface For a Project” by M. Bierut, www.designobserver.com
“Mistakes in Typography Grate the Purists” by A. Rawsthorn, www.nytimes.com/rawsthorn/type/howlers
“Font/Typeface Terms Survey Results” by T. Phinney, www.thomasphinney.com/font-terms-survey-results
Fonts in Use, delicious/in-use/organic, typophile.com/in-use, underware.nl/in-use, typotheque.com/in-use, typetide/in-use
Characters Required by Languages, www.myfonts.com/Language
Omniglot Resources, www.omniglot.com/writing
History
ABC, http://abc.planet-typography.com
“To Write Without a Pen” by A. Byrom, www.andrewbyrom.com/essay
“Lecture on History of Printed Letters” by Lupton and Faden, http://thinkingwithtype/history-notes
“Lecture on History of the Alphabet” by J. Ross, www.papress.com/judy-ross.pdf
History of Western Typography, http://wikipedia.org/history-of-western-typography
Movable Type, http://wikipedia.org/movable-type
Gutenberg Johannes, www.rightreading.com/printing, typolexikon.de/gutenberg, B42.jpg, 1455-64.wav
“The Gutenberg Press” by S. Fry, www.dontpressme.com/video/gutenberg
Romain du Roi, http://jacques-andre.fr/truchet, papress.com/grandjean, identifont.com/grandjean
Prof. Mosley’s Typefoundry Blog, http://typefoundry.blogspot.com
“Il Carattere da Stampa e sua Evoluzione Stilistico-Progettuale” by A. Marconi, www.stampatipografica.it
“Good Book on the History of Typography” thread, http://typophile.com/node/45919
“Teaching Typography” thread, http://typophile.com/node/45731
“The Evolution of Type” by M. Brandt, www.mediumbold.com/thinking/type
“Type History” by J.F. Porchez, www.typofonderie.com/typehistory
Type Design 1470—1840, www.designhistory.org/typemilestones
Typographic Timeline, www.rsub.com/typographic/timeline, www.as8.it/handouts/type-timeline.pdf
“History of Type” compiled by L. Devroye, http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/history
“History of Canadian Type Design” by N. Fabian, www.webcom.net/fabian/history
Macro-Typography by J.B. Piggin, www.piggin.net/contents
Overviews of Printing Types by D. Rose, www.fiveroses.org/bibliography
Hamilton Wood Type Museum, www.woodtype.org
“The Art of Wood Type” by G. Ruffa, www.theartofwoodtype.com
“A Concise History of The Printed Book in The Nederlands” by P.G. Hoftijzer, www.bibliopolis.nl/proto
“The True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway” by P. Shaw, www.aiga.org/helvetica-nyc, helveticasubway.com
“The Origin of the Term ’Kerning‘” by I. Strizver, www.creativepro.com/blog/typetalk/kern
“The Origin of the Sans Serif and Helvetica’s Plagiarism” by M. Majoor, www.eyemagazine.com/#63/majoor
“Times New Roman History” by M. Parker, www.ft.com/alas/times-new-roman, www.typeradio.org/parker
Edu-chart by E. Bloemsma, www.typophile.com/forums/edu-chart
Woodward’s Redsun Resources, www.redsun.com/type
Arabic Typography, www.arabictypography.com
Basque (Euskara) by T. Arsaut, http://backspace.com/notes/euskara
History of Devanagari Letterform Design in India, www.designinindia.net/history/writing, @facebook
Counterspace, www.counterspace.us/typography
Sereno Editore, www.serenoeditore.com/font
“Type as Shape”, by A. Kator, www.atpm.com/10.01/design
“Introduction to Letterpress Printing” by D. Rose, www.fiveroses.org
“Hot Metal” by L. Kaehler, www.global-type.org/hot-metal
“When Wood Trumped Metal: An Interview with Bill Moran” by S. Heller, www.aiga.org/hamilton-wood-type-museum
Letterpress by G. Bignell, http://typophile.com/node/45233
Bella Figura Letterpress Invitations, www.bellafigura.com/letterpress
“The Materials of Typefounding” by J. Mosley, http://typefoundry.blog/2006/01/materials
“How Hand Compositors Justified Lines” by P. Luna, www.lunascafe.org/how-hand-compositors-justified-lines
“Preserving Ancient Wisdom with Age-Old Printing Techniques” by J.D. Berry, creativepro.com/preserving-techniques
“The Ampersand (&)” by M. Caflisch et al., adobe.com/type/&, typography.com/&, flickr.com/&, typowiki/&
The Cary Graphic Arts Collection, http://wally.rit.edu/cary/library
WNY Book Arts Center Letterpress, http://bflobookarts.blog, publicbroadcasting.net/buffalo/kryszak
Textism by D. Allen, www.textism.com/textfaces
“The Meanings of Type” by S. Heller, www.eyemagazine.com/issue50
“Adventures in Kerning” by J. Hoefler, www.typography.com/blog/kerning
“The Typographic Modern” by R. Giampietro, http://linedandunlined.com/010504
“Great British Printers” by C. Archer, www.uktype.com/british/prints
“Dutch Type” by J. Middendorp, http://books.google.com/middendorp
Dutch Government Corporate Typeface Rijksoverheid, www.designworkplan.com/fonts/rijksoverheid
“Scotch Roman” by J. Mosley, http://typefoundry.blogspot.com/scotch-roman
“Proto-neoclassical Roman” by J. Hudson, http://typophile.com/node/53112
“Jan Tschichold: A Titan of Typography” by R. Hollis, www.guardian.co.uk/design/tschichold
“The Fell Types” by I. Marini, http://iginomarini.com/fell/history
“Printers Guide to Europe” by C. Archer, www.uktype.com/printers-guide-to-europe
Historic Typefaces by Walden Font Co., www.waldenfont.com
Woody Allen’s Typography, http://kitblog.com/2007/12/woody_allen
“Face the Nation: National Identity and Modern Type Design 1900-1960" by C. Eliason, www.stthomas.edu/facethenation
20th Century Type Designers handout, www.as8.it/20th-century-type-designers.pdf
Computer History, www.computerhistory.org, www.youtube.com/computerhistory
Incunabula, Dawn of Western Printing, www.ndl.go.jp/incunabula
Istitut d’Histoire du Livre -bibliography-, http://ihl.enssib.fr
Berlin Museum of Letters, www.core77.com/berlin-museum-of-letters
Briar Press Letterpress Community, www.briarpress.org/register
Rencontres Internationales de Lure, www.rencontresdelure.org
Historical Type and Lettering Pool, www.flickr.com/groups/T&L/pool
Paleography
Dedicated Linkography, www.as8.it/edu/calligraphy
Calligraphy
Dedicated Bibliography, www.as8.it/edu/calligraphy
Information Design
Dedicated Linkography, www.as8.it/edu/info-design
Font Browsers
Ergonis PopChar (Mac, PC), www.ergonis.com/products/popchar
Unicode Font Info (Mac), http://pixel.recoil.org/cocoa
Morrison FontVista 2.1 (Mac), www.thepowerxchange.com/product/fontvista
Lemke FontBook 4.4 (Mac), www.lemkesoft.com/fontbook
Dreystone Font Safari 1.0 (Mac), http://dreystone.com/fontsafari
Neuber Typograf 4.8 (PC), http://neuber.com/typograph
MyFontbook (online), www.myfontbook.com
Typetester by M. Dugonjić (online), http://typetester.maratz.com
Font Managers
Insider FontAgent (Mac), http://fontagent.com
Linotype FontExplorer (Mac, PC), www.fontexplorerx.com, www.linotype.com/fontexplorer
Extensis Suitcase (Mac, PC), www.extensis.com/products/font-management, best-practices-guide.pdf
High-Logic MainType 1.1 (PC), www.high-logic.com/maintype
Fontonizer 1.0 (PC), www.fontutilities.com/fontonizer
Morrison FontDoctor 7.1 (Mac), http://morrisonsoftdesign.com/fontdoctor
CreativeTechs Font Managers reviews, www.creativetechs.com/tips/fontmanagement
“Font Managment” by J. Sacks, www.digital-web.com/articles/better-font-management
Font Editors
FontLab, Fontographer, AsiaFont, etc. (Mac, PC), www.fontlab.com
FontForge (Mac, PC, Linux), http://fontforge.net
RoboFab, http://robofab.com; “RoboFab Basics” by B. Kiel, typographica.org/robofab
Superpolator, http://superpolator.com
“Robothon” by J. Middendorp, http://blog.eyemagazine.com/robothon
AFDKO (Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType), typophile.com/afdko, adobe.com/afdko, thomasphinney.com/afdko
iKern Tool for Autospacing and Autokerning, http://ikern.com
“Font Remix Tools” by T. Ahrens, www.remix-tools.com
“Meek Typographic Synthesizer” by Meek and Müller, http://meekfm.org
YourFonts Handwriting, www.yourfonts.com
FontStruct, introduction, review, fontstruct.fontshop.com
Technical Support
pan-European WGL character set, WGL-Character-Set.pdf, microsoft.com/WGL4
Unicode Character Code Charts, www.unicode.org/charts
Unicode 5.1, www.unicode.org/versions
ASCII (American Standard for Information Interchange), http://en.wikipedia.org/ascii
Kerning Text, www.as8.it/type/basic_kerning_text
iKern Tool for Autospacing and Autokerning, http://ikern.com
Letter Frequency Meter, www.typotheque.com/type-utilities/lettermeter
Qwerty Keyboard Layout, www.as8.it/type/qwerty-keyboard-layout
“OpenType Font Production” by K. Luecke, www.kltf.de/resources
Village—OpenType Kerning, http://vllg.com/OpenType_kerning
“How to Install Fonts”, www.linotype.com/howtoinstallfonts.html
“Managing Fonts on OSX” by Estensis, http://extensis.com/fonts/best-practices-guide.pdf
Character Palette in Leopard, http://textism.com/char-palette-leopard
Using Fonts with OSX, 10.3 Panther; 10.4 Tiger
MacOSX Fonts List, 10.3 Panther; 10.4 Tiger
Standard Windows Fonts, www.kayskreations.net/fonts/winstd
Arabic Fonts for Mac, www.smi.uib.no/arabic-fonts
“Get Typographically Correct Text from Word (.doc)” by I. Strizver, www.creativepro.com/text-from-word
PDF Standards, www.planetpdf.com/standards
Certified PDF, www.certifiedpdf.net
Fiery VUE Printing by EFI, www.efi.com/fieryvue
Standard 35 PostScript Fonts Built Into PostScript Printers, www.ep.ph.bham.ac.uk/.ps-fonts
Win Central and East European Fonts and Keyboard Drivers, http://aatseel.org/wineelatin
“WPF Microsoft Font Selection Model” by Leonov and Brown, blogs.msdn.com/text/wpf.pdf
AIGA Use of Fonts, www.aiga.org/resources/aiga-fonts.pdf, eight-golden-rules.pdf
Adobe Products, www.adobe.com/products, adobe.com/exchange; adobe.com/brilliant, CS
Adobe Support, www.adobe.com/support
Acrobat, www.adobe.com/support/acrobat, adobe.com/products/acrobat, adobe.com/products/reader
InDesign CS3 Help Resource Centre, http://livedocs.adobe.com/indesign
Applications, http://typophile.com/wiki/design_applications
OS X Features and Shortcuts, http://appstorm.net/os-x/features-and-shortcuts
Media Training UK Courses, www.mediatraining.ltd.uk/courses
Designer’s Toolkit, www.precisedtk.com
DTP Tools, www.dtptools.com
DTP File Release Checklist, http://ieu.edu.tr/asegalini/design/dtp-checklist
Quite PDF Editing Plug-ins, www.quite.com
Quite Imposing Guide 1.2, www.as8.it/book/support/quite-imposing_guide.pdf
PDF to Word Converter, www.pdftoword.com
Varnishing, www.printingdirect.com/information/varnishing
Image Resolution, http://wikipedia.org/image-resolution
Shubert PDF Browser Plugin, www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf
Shubert Word Browser Plugin, www.schubert-it.com/pluginword
PostScript Print Driver (⌘P .pdf), www.adobe.com/support/postscript-driver-Mac; Windows
MyFonts International Typography, www.myfonts.com/International
OpenType User Guide for Adobe Fonts, www.adobe.com/type/OTGuide.pdf
OpenType Feature Support in Applications, www.typotheque.com/fonts/opentype_feature_support
“OpenType Stylistic Sets” thread, http://typophile.com/node/55586
“OpenType Glossary” by J.F. Porchez, www.typofonderie.com/technical/opentype
“Automatic Page Numbering” by I. Strizver, www.fonts.com/fyti/auto-page-numbering
“Fraction Fever” by T. Leming, http://talleming.com/fraction-fever
“Rich Black vs. Plain Black” by D. van Holten, www.printernational.org/rich-black-plain-black
“InDesign Black Output on PDF Export” thread, http://typophile.com/node/31345
Rutgers Guidelines by C. Hedrick, www.nbcs.rutgers.edu/~hedrick/typography
Ergonis Typinator, www.ergonis.com/typinator
Proportionbar by W. Adams, http://verizon.net/william-adams; proportionbar-PC.zip, proportionbar-Mac.sit
“How to Use Angled Guidelines in FontLab” by J. Buivenga, www.youtube.com/exlibris/fontlab
FontLab Keyboard Shortcuts, http://benkiel.com/typedesign/fontlabkeys.pdf
Diacritics Project by F. Blažek, http://diacritics.typo.cz/index.php
“On Diacritics” by D. Březina, http://ilovetypography.com/on-diacritics
“Problems of Diacritic Design” by V. Gaultney, www.sil.org/gaultney/diacritic-design.pdf
“Cedilla vs Undercomma Debate” thread, http://typophile.com/node/49347
“Good Tilde Design” by M. Stuckwisch, http://mateo.elahorcado.net
“The Quote-like on the Keyboard” by Peterson and Hallmundur, designobserver.com/", ministryoftype.co.uk/"
Ten Typographic Mistakes Everyone Makes, www.recedinghairline.co.uk/10-type-mistakes
Workhorse definition, http://typophile.com/wiki/workhorse
Languages Supported by Latin 1 Encoding (ISO 8859-1), http://typophile.com/node/40054
“World-Ready Composer in Adobe CS4” by T. Phinney, www.thomasphinney.com/adobe-world-ready-composer
“Typographic Bilingualism: the coexistence of Chinese and English texts” by K. Tam, http://keithtam.net
“Chinese Character Identification” by K. Lunde, http://typophile.com/node/51022
Japanese Kerning (“Metrics Roman Only”), http://typophile.com/node/51574
“African Language Support” thread, http://typophile.com/node/49307
Hebrew Typography Group at Typophile, http://typophile.com/node/47967
“Arabic-Latin Combinations (Multi Language Fonts)” thread, http://typophile.com/node/53183
“Multilingual Text” by K. Mansour, www.worldwareconference.com/synopses/mansour
“Typography For Lawyers” thread, http://typophile.com/node/49288
“Bank Statement and Invoice Design” thread, http://typophile.com/node/53192
“Politic and Type” thread, http://typophile.com/node/18519
Omniglot Tower of Babel, www.omniglot.com/babel
SIL, Computers and Writing Systems, http://scripts.sil.org
“Gentium –a Typeface For The Nations” by V. Gaultney, http://scripts.sil.org/gentium
“Representing IPA phonetics in ASCII” by E. Kirshenbaum, www.hpl.hp.com/ascii-ipa.pdf
Phonetic Fonts, www.linguistics.ucla.edu/fonts
Language Characters Required, www.ask-group.co.uk/publish
Language Coverage, http://typophile.com/node/34854
Permament Press Filter, www.misterretro.com, typophile.com/permanent-press
Technical Writing
“Tech: Book Design” by D. McMurrey, www.io.com/~hcexres/textbook/bookdesign
“The Keyboard: A Tool Kit” by M. Kisman, www.icograda.org/kisman
“Information Design Is Typography” by O. Reichenstein, www.informationarchitects.jp/id
“How (Not) to Write Like a Designer” by Core77, www.core77.com/writing, sva.edu/caplan-theoretical.pdf
“Thinking Outside the Inbox” by A. Cooper, www.cooper.com/journal/inbox, bitliteracy.com
“Three Typefaces for Mathematics” by D. Rhatigan, www.typeculture.com/essays/rhatigan
Proofreaders’ Marks, www.as8.it/type/proofreaders_marks.pdf
File Format Info, www.fileformat.info
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format, www.w3.org/graphics/PNG, www.andreas.com/faq-gif-png
“Navigating Today's Signs“ by M. Hora, www.aiga.org/navigating-today-signs
“Symbol Signs” by AIGA, www.aiga.org/content/symbol-signs, www.aiga.org/thank-you-for-not-smoking
“PhD in Small Caps” thread, http://typophile.com/node/33815
Review on Adobe InDesign CS2, www.creativepro.com/review-adobe-indesign-cs2
“Origin of Music Notation (Music Theory)“ by B. Blood, www.dolmetsch.com/theory, manuscript-paper, theory-index
“Xerox Scientist Finds Meaning in How Documents are Presented” by B. McKee, www.xerox.com/capturing-document
LCM/GCF Least Common Multiple, http://wikipedia.org/least-common-multiple, www.math.com/lcm/gcf
Exponent (Power), www.math10.com//algebra/exponent
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, http://wikipedia.org/wiki/S/MIME
ISO 216 Standard Paper Size, www.cl.cam.ac.uk/iso-paper, as8.it/letter-A4, wikipedia.org/ISO216
Foundations of :
Design and Print Production, www.adobe.com/education/visualdesign
Web Design, www.adobe.com/education/digitaldesign
Video Design and Production, www.adobe.com/education/video
“New to DTP” thread, http://typophile.com/node/50336
Acrobat Printing Guide, http://adobe.com/acrobat/printing-guide.pdf
Office of the Yale University Printer, www.yale.edu/university-printer
“Dictionary Design Bibliography” thread, http://typophile.com/node/53246
“Glossary of Internet and Web Jargon” by UC Berkeley, www.lib.berkeley.edu/internet/glossary
HTML5, www.w3.org/html5
WordPress Tips and Tricks, www.wpbeginner.com/tutorials/tips
Web Design Resources at ScrunchUp, http://scrunchup.com/resources
“Microtipografia: Il Progetto dei Nuovi Dizionari Collins” at P. Biľak, www.typotheque.com/microtipografia
“Grammar of Comic-book Typography” by N. Piekos, blambot.com/grammar, typophile.com/comics
“Word, Quark or InDesign; It’s Assumed You Care About Design…” by D. Williams, http://typophile.com/node/20298
“About Digital Comics” by Y. Bigerel, deviantart.com/about-digital-comics
The Euro '€' Symbol, myfonts.com/character/euro, fontshop.com/fontmag/euro, carleton.ca/euro, wikipedia.org; euro.png
“Beta-testing Type: Print Proofing” thread, http://typophile.com/node/53254
“Bar Coding” by J. Rongitsch, resources.com/bar-coding, wikipedia.org/barcode, universal-product-code
Machine Tags for Type, http://typedia.com/blog/post/machine-tags-for-type
Font Formats
“About Font Formats” by D. Maag, www.daltonmaag.com/about/fontformats
“Formati delle Font” by A. Segalini, www.as8.it/symposium/formati.pdf
Font Formats Overview by Adobe, www.adobe.com/type/formats
Multiple Master Fonts, wikipedia.org/MM, youtube.com/MM, typophile.com/MM, developer.apple.com
“Font Rasterization: the State of the Art” by R.D. Hersch, http://diwww.epfl.ch/frsa.pdf
“The Death of The Pixel Font” by Z. Fernando, http://labs.zeh.com.br
“Best FL TrueType Export Setting” thread, http://typophile.com/node/55255
Typotheque OpenType Online Font Tester, http://www.typotheque.com/font_tester
Bitmap, www.gskinner.com/fonts/flex, http://typophile.com/node/32614, raster-12-2048
True Type, http://typophile.com/node/13679
OpenType, http://typophile.com/node/12420
“OpenType Glossary” by J.F. Porchez, www.typofonderie.com/technical/opentype
“TrueType Versus Postscript”, http://typophile.com/node/16695
Type Technologies, http://typophile.com/node/34854
Hinting
TrueType Hinting by Microsoft, www.microsoft.com/typography/TrueTypeHinting
Hinting at Typowiki, http://typophile.com/node/13964
Hinting at MyFonts, www.myfonts.com/activity/hinting
AAT Font Quality Specification , http://developer.apple.com/textfonts/TTQualSpec
“Basic Hinting Philosophies and TrueType Instructions” by V. Connare, www.microsoft.com/typography/hinting
“TrueType Hinting” by T. Penney, www.truetype-typography.com/tthints
“Hinting TT OpenType Fonts” thread, http://typophile.com/node/31317
“Font Rendering” by M. Duggan, www.windowsfordevices.com
“To Autohint, or NOT to Autohint” thread, http://typophile.com/node/15436
“The Raster Tragedy at Low Resolution”, www.microsoft.com/typography/tools
“Hinting in FontLab and Fontographer” by N. Fabian, http://web.archive.org/~nfhome/hinting
“It’s Not Just Fonts” by B. Hill, http://msdn.microsoft.com/endbracket
“How To Set Hint Replacement Correctly” thread, http://typophile.com/node/29166
“Software Developer, the pleasant Monospace” thread, http://typophile.com/node/29761
“Hints, Good or Bad” thread, http://typophile.com/node/31448
“When Is the Better Time to Hint” thread, http://typophile.com/node/15812
“CorelDraw-FontLab Problem” thread, http://typophile.com/node/15458
“Hinting and Metrics Problem” thread, http://typophile.com/node/40669
“Hinting and the Printing” thread, http://typophile.com/node/39237
Legibility
Legibility vs. Readability, www.graphic-design.com/type/legibility-vs-readability
Science of Word Recognition, www.microsoft.com/typography/word-recognition
“Physiology of Reading (Minuscule Project)” by T. Huot-Marchand, www.256tm.com/minuscule
“What Is the Most Important OS” by B. Hill, http://microsoft.com/the-most-important-os, commarts.com/columns/ilyin
“The Magic of Reading” by B. Hill, www.billhillsite.com/osprey.doc, poynterextra.org/osprey.doc, microsoft.com/billhill
Adobe “Taking It In”, www.adobe.com/archive/taking-it-in.pdf
“Deconstruction” by Lupton and Miller, www.designwritingresearch.org/science
“Bouma as Bounded Map”, http://typophile.com/node/15432, wikipedia.org/bouma
“Large vs. Small Type Sizes”, http://typophile.com/node/28764
“Large X-heights = More Readable ?”, www.typophile.com/node/31427
“Gestural Exercises: Excursions into the Visual Cortex and Design” by P. Enneson, www.enneson.com/eitvc-script.pdf, slides.pdf
“If it’s Hard to Read, it’s Hard to Do” by Song and Schwarz, http://umich.edu/norbert-schwarz.pdf, typophile.com/node/46304
“Text Treatment and the User Interface” by T. Komischke, www.uxmatters.com/komischke
“Signage Design Manual” by E. Smitshuijzen, www.signdesignsociety.co.uk/manual
The Neural Basis of Reading, http://nbr.physiol.ox.ac.uk
“The Evolution of the Human Eye” by S.D. Pitman, www.detectingdesign.com/humaneye, müller-cells.jpg
“An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision” by G. Berkeley, http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4722
“The Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading” by E.B. Huey (1908), www.thoemmes.com/psychology/wozniak
Reading Online Text, http://psychology.wichita.edu/whitespace
Why People Don’t Read Online, www.acm.org/ubiquity/article
“The Effects of Onscreen Typeface Personality” by R. Hazlett, www.chi2008.org/hazlettr.pdf
“Perception of Fonts: Personality Traits and Uses” by Shaikh et al., http://psychology.wichita.edu/fonts
“Guidelines for the Label and Package Leaflet of Medicinal Products for Human Use”, europa.eu/pharmaceuticals.pdf
“Letter Case and Text Legibility in Normal and Low Vision” by Arditi and Cho, www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/legibility
“Easy to Read, Easy to Do” by Song and Schwarz, www.typophile.com/node/51158, listserv.heanet.ie/typo-L/12392
Rate of Reading Test, www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/overlays
“Character Spacing as Defining Factor for Legibility” by D. Pelli et al., http://fontfeed.com/nyu-legibility
“Good Legibility Tests For Typefaces” thread, typophile.com/node/41365
“The Visual Nuclei Hypothesis” threads, typophile.com/node/4829, snopes.com/apocrypha, languagehat.com, bisso.com
Progetto-EXP, www.progetto-exp.org
“Designing The Ultimate Wayfinding Typeface” by R. Herrmann, http://opentype.info/blog/ultimate-wayfinding-typeface
Clearview Highway Typeface, http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/clearfont, typographica.org/000931.php, nytimes.com/magazine/clearview
“Reading and Driving” by V. Hanlon, www.cmaj.ca/casestudy
“British Motorway Signage System” by Kinneir and Calvert, www.designmuseum.org/signage
Max Kerning, the Man (Not the Idiot), www.maxkerning.com
Typography for Children, www.fonts.com/typography-for-children
Graffiti Comic Strip by P. Selby, http://bigeyedeer.blog/2008/07/graf.gif; comments
“Typeface for a School Book” thread, http://typophile.com/node/52058
“ADD and Words per Line (Design for Attention)” by L. Powell, typophile.com/node/49883
Type-Syntactic (poetry: layout to read slow) by J.B. Piggin, www.as8.it/handouts/type-syntactic.pdf
“Balancing Typeface Legibility and Economy” by V. Gaultney, www.sil.org/gaultney/balancing.pdf
“It’s All Down to How Fast You React” by J. Petre, www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/petre
“Fonts and Authority Perception” thread, http://typophile.com/node/58433
“On Reading With a Theme” by M. Brown, http://aworkinglibrary.com/reading-with-a-theme; aworkinglibrary.com/book
“On the Typography of Flight-Deck Documentation” by A. Degani (1992), www.nasa.gov/isd/adegani/flight-deck.pdf
“On Dowding’s ‘Finer Points of the Spacing and Arrangement of Type’” thread, www.facebook.com/profile686525364/feed
Read Regular, www.readregular.com
Grover by Sally Castle, www.typophile.com/Castle_Grover.pdf
Mencap by FontSmith, www.microsoft.com/typography/mencap, typophile.com/node/44143, press
Alphabetic Letter Similarity Matrices, http://obereed.net/Mueller2004.pdf
“What‘s Your Signage” by SBDC, www.nyssbdc.org/whatsyoursignage
Gaze Movement and Focal Points, http://people.mit.edu/fredo/GazeMovement.pdf
Eye Movement References, www.readingplus.com/eye-movement-references.pdf
AdeLE Eye Tracking Prototype, www.iicm.edu/cguetl/papers/AdeLE-05.pdf
“How Much the Eye Tells the Brain” at E. Tufte, www.edwardtufte.com/eye&brain, tinyurl.com/e&b.pdf
Design To Read Resources, www.designtoread.com/resources
Letter Identification, http://typophile.com/wiki/letter-identification
Screen Typography
“The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web” by R. Rutter, http://webtypography.net/toc
“Web Typography Sucks” by Rutter and Boulton, http://webtypography.net/sxsw2007
“Layout” at A List Apart, www.alistapart.com/topics/design/layout
Flash Player v.10 Text Engine, http://typophile.com/node/45368
Web 2.0 Howto Design Style Guide, www.webdesignfromscratch.com/web-2.0-design-style-guide
W3C Specification: Fonts, www.w3.org/CSS2/fonts
Web Fonts Basics, http://webstyleguide.com/type/character, efuse.com/web-fonts-basics, typophile.com/node/45089
“Web Fonts: web pages containing embedded fonts” by T. Leming, http://talleming.com/web-fonts; webfont-proposal, foundries
Typotheque Web Font Service, www.typotheque.com/webfonts/multilingual, principle
“The Different Faces of Type (Hinting, Raster and Platforms)” by K. Lueke, http://kltf.de/notes-raster
Scroll Magazine, http://scrollmagazine.com
Hot To Improve Web Typography, www.webdesignerdepot.com/improve-web-typography
ClearType, www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype, ascenderfonts.com/cleartype, poynter.org/cleartype; fonts-preview
“Windows Vista Fonts Compared to Typical Web Fonts” C. Montoya, www.christianmontoya.com/web-fonts-comparing.pdf
“Enhancements to Georgia and Verdana Typeface Families” by B. Davis, www.ascendercorp.com/pr/2009-09-08
“The Best Online Reading Experience” by S.D. Quinn, www.poynter.org/msfonts/online-reading
“Web Style Guide” by Lynch and Horton, www.webstyleguide.com
“Guide To Web Typography” by J. Boardley (iLT), http://ilovetypography.com/a-guide-to-web-typography
“Inspirational Typography in Web Design” at Pattern Tap, http://patterntap.com
“Writing Style for Print vs. Web” by J. Nielsen, www.useit.com/alertbox/print-vs-online-content
“Baseline Framework” by ProjectUrbain, http://baselinecss.com
“Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid” by W. Miner, www.alistapart.com/setting-type-on-the-web
“Typography On the Web” thread, http://typophile.com/node/29622
“The Hazy Future of Web Typography” by C. Foresman, http://arstechnica.com/2009/state-of-web-type
“Unreadable” by J. Clark, http://scrollmagazine.com/no.1/unreadable, aworkinglibrary.com/unreadable
“Readable Web” by R. Fink, http://readableweb.com
“Perfectly-sized Web Graphics” by M. Golding, illustrator.blog/perfectly-sized-web-graphics
“Moving From Print To Screen” by J. Clark, www.alistapart.com/articles/unwebbable, readableweb.com/print-to-screen
“Wordlings in a Web 2.0 World” by C. Lee, http://firstmonday.org/lee/wordlings
“Golden Age of Type Blogs” at Eye, http://blog.eyemagazine.com/type-blogs
“Stricking Web Sites With Font Stacks That Inspire” by V. Vivian, www.inspirationbit.com/font-stacks
“How People with Disabilities Use the Web” by W3C, www.w3.org/WAI/intro/people-use-web
“Typographica Redesign” by T. Brown, http://typesites.com/typographica
“In Defense of Readers” by M. Brown, www.alistapart.com/in-defense-of-readers, aworkinglibrary.com
“Web Fonts At TypeCon 2009” summaries, www.facebook.com/note/web-fonts, readableweb.com/web-fonts, ilovetypography.com/web-fonts
“Web Fonts” by D. Berlow, http://type101.fontbureau.com/archives/149
“Revised Web Fonts Proposal” thread, http://typophile.com/node/59489
The Grid
“The Golden Section Family” by M. Reynolds, www.markareynolds.com
Golden Ratio, phi, wikipedia.org/golden-ratio, wikipedia.org/phi, typophile.com/node/44943
“Golden Section Illustration” by I. Gulkov, http://flickr.com/golden-section.gif
“David Colley Speaks About Grid Systems”, www.typographicdesign4e.com
“Typography Is a Grid” by A. Froshaug, www.hyphenpress.co.uk/journal/grid
The Art of The Grid, www.artofthegrid.com
The Grid System, www.thegridsystem.org, www.aisleone.net, yearofthesheep.com, baselinecss.com
“Baseline Grid in InDesign” thread, typophile.com/node/32509, typophile.com/node/47265
“Grids Are Good” by M. Boulton, www.subtraction.com/grids-are-good.pdf
“Simple Steps to Designing Grid Systems” by M. Boulton, www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/designing-grids
“Grids as Interfaces” by C. van den Heuvel, www.analogousspaces.com/grids-interface.pdf
“The Vignelli Canon” by M. Vignelli, www.vignelli.com/bookmagazine/canon, containerlist.org/vignelli
“Can the Grid Really Be Broken” thread, typophile.com/node/51578
Book Design
“On Book Design” by R. Hendel, http://yalepress.edu/isbn0300075707
“Book Typography” by Mitchell and Wightman, www.oakknoll.com/92771
“The Dire State of Book Typography” thread, www.typophile.com/node/44943
Tips for Top Type, www.creativepro.com/story/type-tips, www.fonts.com/type-tips
Canons of Page Construction, http://wikipedia.org/canons-of-page-construction
“The Golden Section Family” by M. Reynolds, www.markareynolds.com
Golden Ratio, phi, wikipedia.org/golden-ratio, wikipedia.org/phi, typophile.com/node/44943
“Golden Section Illustration” by I. Gulkov, http://flickr.com/golden-section.gif
“Book Design Pt. 1” by J.D. Berry, www.creativepro.com/story/feature/13110
“Book Design Pt. 2” by J.D. Berry, www.creativepro.com/story/feature/13212
“Incremental Leading” by M. Boulton, www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/incremental_leading
“Typesetting Tables at 24ways” by M. Boulton, http://24ways.org/2007/typesetting-tables
“Type That Keeps the Beat” thread, www.37signals.com/posts/type-that-keeps-the-beat
“Break Up Big Blocks Text” thread, typophile.com/node/44134
Typeface Paring: Mixing Type, www.typophile.com/wiki/paring, www.as8.it/handouts/U&lc1992.pdf
“Choosing a Font for Book Design” thread, www.typophile.com/node/39592
“Font for Multilingual Books” thread, www.typophile.com/node/56615
“Top Ten Typefaces Used by Book Design Winners” by S. Coles, fontfeed.com/book-design-types
“Paragraph Rules” by Y. Peters, www.fontshop.be/paragraph-rules
“Justification Advice in InDesign” thread, typophile.com/node/31259
“2 1/2 lc Alphabets; 75 to 80 Characters per Line” by W. Berkson, typophile.com/node/18382
“Consistent Correlation Between Book Page and Type Area” by J. Tschichold, learning.uk/tschichd
“Balancing Typeface Legibility and Economy” by V. Gaultney, www.sil.org/gaultney/balancing.pdf
Edward Tufte - “Ask E.T.”, www.edwardtufte.com/board/ask-e.t.
“The Power of a Limited Palette” by C. Bickford-Smith, www.the99percent.com/articles/coralie-bickford
“Book Art & History” by C. Knops, www.xs4all.nl/knops/bookarts
“How to Write a Book Proposal” by E. Lupton, www.elupton.com/book/proposal
“Oddest Book Titles” by A. Flood, www.guardian.co.uk/books/oddest-title
“Word Spacing in InDesign” thread, typophile.com/node/50298, typophile.com/node/51618
Joe Kral's Book Collection, www.flickr.com/joekral
The Designer’s Review of Books, www.designersreviewofbooks.com, @apolaine
Old-Timey Paperback Book Covers, www.flickr.com/groups/paperbacks
Book Covers Blog by C. Papasadero, http://covers.fwis.com
Octavo Editions, www.octavo.com/editions
Pagehand Word Processor, http://pagehand.com
Book Scanner ScanRobot by Treventus Mechatronics, www.treventus.com
Checklist of Aldine (Aldus Manutius) Editions Owned by BYU, http://lib.byu.edu/aldine
The Typographic Mind, http://tdc.bccks.jp/viewer/tdc2034
白地図, http://tdc.bccks.jp/viewer/tdc2008
DTP Tutorials, http://desktoppub.about.com/od/booksmanuals
DTP Forum, www.desktoppublishingforum.com
Prepress Forum, www.prepressforums.com
Quite Imposing Guide 1.2, www.as8.it/book/support/quite-imposing_guide.pdf
Mag+ “Reading Magazines on Handheld Digital Devices” by Bonnier and BERG, http://vimeo.com/bonnier/mag-prototype
Kindle II, www.amazon.com/product/kindle, wikipedia.org/amazon-kindle, useit.com/kindle/usability
A Look at the New Digital Version of Wired Magazine, www.wired.com/2010/02/the-wired-ipad-app
“Why E-Books Look So Ugly” thread, http://typophile.com/node/58106, www.wired.com/e-book-design
“Is the Future of the Book Digital” thread, http://typophile.com/node/63195
POD/ODB, OnDemand-Books, ondemandbooks.com, typophile.com/ODB, stampamedia.net, blurb.com, ilmiolibro.it
Book News, www.futureofthebook.com
Book Binding
Folio, http://wikipedia.org/folio
Philobiblon Tutorials, www.philobiblon.com/tutorials
Wilsey Rare Books Glossary, www.wilsey.net/glossary.html
Japanese Bookbinding, www.sff.net/people/brook-west/bindit
“How to Bind a Book” by R. Kalvo, pp. 76-80, www.betamag.ee/05.pdf
Alternative Bookbinding, www.as8.it/type/TF_binding.gif
Newspaper
News Designer, www.newsdesigner.com
Newseum, www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages, map-view, rayogram.com/news
SND Society for News Design, http://snd.org, http://vimeo.com/snd
SPD Society of Publication Designers, www.spd.org
“The Typography of News” by P. Hall, www.fontshop.com/fontmag/hall
“News on Paper in the Digital Age” by J.D. Berry, www.creativepro.com/news-on-paper
Newspaper Fonts, 12/2005, 04/2007, 11/2007; www.fontbureau.com/newspaper
Ron Reason, www.ronreason.com
Garcia Media, www.garcia-media.com
Jim Parkinson, www.typedesign.com, www.myfonts.com/interview
Walter Tracy, www.linotype.com/waltertracy
Mark Porter, www.markporter.com
Roger Black, “The Last Blog”, www.rogerblack.com
About Impact by G. Lee, typophile.com/node/7921, typophile.com/node/21081
About Greta by P. Biľak, www.typotheque.com/newspaper/greta, typophile.com/greta
About Swift by G. Unger, gerardunger.com/swift, eyemagazine.com/unger, myfonts.com/unger, wikipedia.org/unger
“Fonts on the Front Pages” by Ascender Corp., www.ascendercorp.com/research.pdf, front-page-fonts
“Newspaper Font Size” thread, http://typophile.com/node/44734
“White; ISOnewspaper26v4” by M. Kramer, www.digital-engineer.net/there-is-no-white
“Reading Paths on Newspaper Spreads” by Holsanova et al., http://vcj.sagepub.com/content/5/1/65
“Best of Newspaper Design” by The Society for News Design, www.rockpub.com
“Elements of Typography” by A.V. Wagener, www.poynter.org/wagener, feedbacks
Phone Book Typography, typophile.com/phone-book
The British Library Newspapers Catalogue, http://catalogue.bl.uk
Newspaper Design Day 2006 (St Bride), http://magculture.com/blog/50
Award-Winning Newspaper Designs 2007, http://snd.org/snd29/best-papers, vimeo.com/snd29
Award-Winning Newspaper Designs 2008, http://snd.org/snd30/best-papers, vimeo.com/snd30, fontfeed.com/snd30, smashingmagazine.com
D&D Awards 2009, http://awards.dandad.org/2009/category/mags
Historical Newspapers, http://historynews.chadwyck.com
Collection of Chinese Masthead Clip-Art, www.flickr.com/oldtasty
“Irritating Readers For Fun and Profit” by Brass Tacks Design, http://brasstacksdesign.com/irritating-readers
SF Chronicle Redesign, http://typophile.com/chronicle, blogs.sfweekly.com/chronicle, sfgate.com/chronicle
The Times, typolis.de/times, www.researchstudios.com, typophile.com, timesonline.co.uk, prnewswire.co.uk, claritas
Äripäev, www.snd.org/aripaev; metroflex.pdf
Sydsvenskan, www.bruhnfamily.com/sydsvenskan
New York Times, www.typophile.com/nyt-nameplate, nytimes.com/web.jpg, earstudio.com/moveable-type, arquitectura.cl/nyt
New York Times Magazine, www.nytimes.com/magazine, typophile.com/nyt-blog-face
Corriere Della Sera, www.newsdesigner.com/corriere, www.leftloft.com/corriere-della-sera
Redesigning the Pennsylvania Indipendent College Newspaper, http://typophile.com/node/18125
“Il Re Designer Quotidiano” and ”IL” by F. Franchi, sdz.aiap.it/franchi, re-designer.org, flickr.com/franchi
“The Snailpaper Term” by D. Bloom, http://zippy1300.blog/2010/02/snailpaper-interview
“Newspaper Website Trends and Examples” by S. Snell, www.smashingmagazine.com/newspaper-trends
“Printing The NYT and Kindle” by N. Carlson, www.alleyinsider.com/nyt-kindle, www.newscientist.com/kindle
Poynter Online on Journalism, http://groups.poynter.org
RSS Readers, http://wikipedia.org/RSS, email.about.com/rss
NYT Times Reader 2.0, http://timesreader.nytimes.com, blogs.adobe.com/times-reader
Spectra Visual Newsreader, http://msnbc.com/msnbc/spectra
Film and Video
“Adrian Frutiger, The Man of Black and White”, www.linotype.com/frutiger-dvd
“Etched in Stone” by C. Dave, www.veer.com/ideas/etched
“Feeling Good” by T.G. Connolly, www.youtube.com/school-of-visual-art/conolly
“Firefly Letterpress”, http://elsa.photo.net/video/firefly-small.mov
“Heart Made of Sound” by K. Moyes, www.kmoyes.com/softlightes/hmos.mov
“Monotype Work” by Kat Ran Press, www.katranpress.com/resources
“The Art of Hermann Zapf” in “The World of Alphabets”, www.linotype.com/zapf
“The Art of the Carved Letter” by Muhly and O‘Neill, www.folkstreams.net/film-no.141
“The Child, NYC” by A. Bardou-Jacquet, www.youtube.com/dj-gopher
“Typecast” by K. Cho, www.typecastfilm.com
“Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles” by B. Barson, http://vimeo.com/6382511
“A Lesson on Typography” by the Vancouver Film School, www.vfs.com/typography.mov, youtube.com/vfs
“The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics” by N. Juster, www.youtube.com/the_dot-and-the-line
“Hatch Show Print, Letterpress Shop in Nashville Tennessee” by D. Airey, www.davidairey.com/hatch-show-print
“The Beauty of Numbers” by S. Kawakami, www.fubiz.net/numbers, www.ministryoftype.co.uk/numbers
“The Gutenberg Press” by S. Fry, www.dontpressme.com/video/gutenberg
“Such Subtle Beauty: Inside the Hammerpress Studio” by Ladesich and Vest, www.designrelated.com/hammerpress
“Historia de un Letrero (The Story of a Sign)” by A. Barreda, salesianity.blog/story-of-sign, tu.tv/historia-de-un-letrero
Calligraphy Movies at MVK Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy, www.calligraphy-mvk.ru/movies
“The Art of Eric Gill” at FactualTV, www.factualtv.com/documentary/the-art-of-eric-gill
“Gill Sans Explained” by M. Dufour, www.typographyserved.com/gill-sans-explained
“Nederland Is Goed In Letters Ontwerpen” by RTL, www.rtl.nl/2009/letters
“Calligraphy Movies” by D. Brown, http://quillskill.com/video
“Font Conference Drama” by College Humor, www.collegehumor.com/font-conference
“Font Fight” by College Humor, www.collegehumor.com/font-fight
“Bicycle Film Festival ’09 trailer” by M. Mucig, http://vimeo.com/5441671
J’adore la Typographie, www.monoscope.com/jadore-la-typographie
“TXT Island” by C. Gavin, http://fontfeed.com/txt-island-pegboard-letters, youtube.com/gavin/stop-motion
“Deadline” by B. Liu, http://fontfeed.com/deadline-post-it-notes, youtube.com/liu/stop-motion
James Earl Jones Recites the Alphabet, www.youtube.com/james-jones/alphabet
REM Hollowman, www.motionographer.com
ESAD Personal Views Lectures, www.esad.pt/personalviews, www.jimhargreaves.com/esad
“Helvetica” by G. Hustwit, www.helveticafilm.com, www.pbs.org/independentlens
Hillman Curtis Films, www.hillmancurtis.com
David Berlow, www.typovideo.de/david-berlow
“Artist Video Series Inspiration” by AIGA, www.aiga.org/content/artist-video-series
TypeCulture Movie Resources, www.typeculture.com/movies
“Typeface” the Hamilton Wood Type Museum Documentary by J. Nagan, www.thedonutproject.com/typeface, http://typeface.kartemquin.com
Printing 1947 by Holmes Films, www.archive.org/printing1947
Learning to Set Type 1959 by Whitten-Appleton, www.archive.org/learning1959
Typesetting Linotype 1960 by Salesian Vocational and Technical Schools, www.archive.org/typesetting-1960-pt.1, pt.2
33pt Eskapade Dortmund, www.33pt.de
Kinetic Type
How Skywriting Works (1935 aerial Chevrolet advertisement), www.archive.org/sky-billboards-1935
Trollbäck + Company, www.trollback.com, www.dexigner.com/trollback
Saul Bass and Harold Adler, at: designmuseum.org, blog-entry, typotheque.com, typo-L, notcoming.com, saulbass.tv, wikipedia.org, tcm.com
Title Sequences Interviews by Thunder Chunky, www.thunderchunky.co.uk/title-sequences
Emotional Fractal by Levitated, www.levitated.net/emotion-fractal
“Devil's Advocate” Al Pacino's Speech, www.youtube.com/kinetic-type/alpacino
“A Lesson on Typography” by the Vancouver Film School, www.vfs.com/typography.mov, youtube.com/vfs
“iQ Font: When Driving Becomes Writing” by Pleaseletmedesign, www.designyoutrust.com/iq-font
“Chalkbot, Type On the Road” by DeepLocal and StandardRobot, www.youtube.com/chalkbot
“The Big Lebowski Speech” by K. Dekker, www.youtube.com/kinetic/lebowski
Vernacular Type
The Center for Vernacular Typography, http://publicdesigncenter.org, flickr.com/groups/cvt
Villatype Found Lettering, http://villatype.blogspot.com
“Public Lettering” by P. Baines, www.publiclettering.org.uk
“TypoTrip, Typography on the Road” by W. Mejor, http://typotrip.wordpress.com
“Letters” by A. Cavedoni, www.flickr.com/verbosus
“Letters” by T. Leming, http://talleming.com/lettering
“Numbers” by G. Fuga, http://blog.giofugatype.com
“Guerrilla Typography” by C. Webb, www.idsgn.org/guerrilla-typography
Chicago Type, www.chicagotype.com
Type Nesting, http://typenesting.com
The Journal of Urban Typography, http://tjout.tumblr.com
Text Genererators
Adhesion, www.adhesiontext.com
Malevole, www.malevole.com/mv/misc/text
Lorem Ipsum, www.lipsum.com, www.lipsum3.info
Ahrens’, www.justanotherfoundry.com/tools/generator
Blindtext, www.newmediadesigner.de
Textile Web Text Generator, www.textism.com/tools/textile, hobix.com/textile
Automatic Text, Phyton FL script, http://typophile.com/node/38539
Spell with Flickr, http://metaatem.net/words
Art21 Synthesis Machine, http://alphabet.tmema.org
P22 Music Text Composition Generator, http://p22.com/musicfont
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, www.ohchr.org/UDHR/language, www.un.org/en/udhr
BBC World Service, www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/languages
Eki Letter Database, www.eki.ee/letter
Pangram (Holoalphabetic Sentence), http://wikipedia.org/pangram, typowiki, thread
“Pack My Box With Five Dozen Liquor Jugs” thread, www.typophile.com/node/36610
Pangrammer by M. Simonson, www.ms-studio.com/animation/pangrammerhelper
“Hamburgefontsiv”, http://typophile.com/wiki/hamburgefontsiv
“Kerning List”, http://typophile.com/node/29545
Word Lists, http://thesaurus.com, thewordlist.com, numerical, Q-no-U, Vs, atkinson
Wordle, www.wordle.net, alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/wordle
Typorganism, www.typorganism.com/asciiomatic
Ascii Art, ascii-art.de, asciiartfarts.com, patorjk.com, network-science.de/ascii
Bar Code Graphics, www.barcode-us.com, www.barcode-it.co.uk, wikipedia.org
“In Defense of Lorem Ipsum” by K. McGrane, www.karenmcgrane.com/defense-of-lorem-ipsum
ACET, www.infomotions.com/alex
Wowio Free Books, www.wowio.com
Project Gutenberg, www.gutenberg.org
Pubblications
Rob Waller’s, www.robwaller.org
Max Bruinsma’s at Eye, http://maxbruinsma.nl/eye
John D. Barry’s, http://johndberry.com/blog
Mark Batty Publisher, www.markbattypublisher.com
Michael Bierut’s, www.designobserver.com
Baseline mag, www.baselinemagazine.com
Spatium mag, www.spatium-magazin.de
Encore mag, www.magwerk.com/encore
Tipográfica mag, www.tipografica.com
Typo mag, www.magtypo.cz
Typotheque articles, www.typotheque.com/site/articles_main.php
Pingmag articles, www.pingmag.jp/category/typography
Design Observer: writings about design and culture, www.designobserver.com
Font Bureau One-Line Type Specimen, www.fontbureau.com/specimens.pdf
Greenboathouse Press Library, www.greenboathouse.com/typelibrary
Adgoodness, www.frederiksamuel.com/blog
Ffffound!, http://ffffound.com
It’s Nice That, www.itsnicethat.com
Text Wrap Blog, http://textwrap.wordpress.com
Fine Typography by Monotype, www.fonts.com/articles/fine-typography
TEAL by J. Deck, www.jeffdeck.com/teal
Mr. Typo, www.linotype.com/mrtypo
Seeking Inspiration Conference, www.ministryoftype.co.uk/st-bride
Manystuff, www.manystuff.org
Monoscope, www.monoscope.com
Balla Dora Typo-Grafika, http://balladora.blog
Scroll Magazine, http://scrollmagazine.com
RBtL (Read Between The Leading), http://readbetweentheleading.com
Ergonaut: the principles of good interactive design, www.ergonaut.com
Multi, The RIT Journal, http://multi.cias.rit.edu
Counter-Print: art and design related material, http://counter-print.co.uk
The Serif Publishing, www.serifpublishing.com
Winterhouse Editions, http://winterhouse.com/editions
The Little Bookroom, www.littlebookroom.com
Princeton Architectural Press, www.papress.com
Allworth Press, www.allworth.com
Focal Press, www.focalpress.com
Hyphen Press, www.hyphenpress.co.uk
Nijhof & Lee, www.nijhoflee.nl/design/typography
Sage Journals, http://vcj.sagepub.com
Typowiki Books, http://typophile.com/wiki/books
Glossary
Metric Typographic Units, www.cl.cam.ac.uk/metric-typo, as8.it/type/pt.mm.gif
DTP Typometer – wikipedia.org; grafipress.de; galaxygauge.com; paratype.ru; microtype.com; pfeifer.de
“eXtreme Type Terminology” by P. Dean, http://iLT.com/extreme-type-terminology
Typolexikon, www.typolexikon.de
Type Measurement, www.linotype.com/typemeasurement
DotType Guide, www.philiplikens.com/dottype/guide.swf
Type Anatomy by Pecina and Březina, http://typomil.com/anatomy
OpenType Features, www.bertholdtypes.com/opentype, www.typofonderie.com/opentype
Foamtrain, www.owlsoup.com/foamtrain/glossary
ParaType, www.paratype.com/help/term
Lingsoft, www.lingsoft.fi/ereriksso/typography
Graphion, www.typographia.org/graphion
Betutan, www.font.hu/morpho
The Jargon Words, www.microsoft.com/typography/glossary
Bibliopolis Glossary, www.bibliopolis.nl
iPhone Typography Manual, http://typographyapp.com
Sappi Prepress, www.sappi.com/knowledgebank/glossary
Mimi Glossaries, http://en.mimi.hu
Artic Paper, www.arcticpaper.com/glossary.pdf
Packaging Gateway Glossary, www.packaging-technology.com/glossary
Wikimedia <Typography>, http://wikimedia.org/typography
Wikipedia <Printing>, http://de.wikipedia.org/drucktechnik
“Printing Primer DTP Glossary” by H. Budgett, http://bosshard.com/printing, dtp-glossary.pdf
10 Typographical Rules, www.owlsoup.com/10-rules
Lexicon Wikipédia Summary, www.lexisum.com
Typowiki Terminology, http://typophile.com/wiki/Terminology
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