Typography Graphic Design

Typography Graphic Design

Typography is the art of creating and using letterforms as a graphic design tool.

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Typography

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The Typophiles - 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.
All Good Things Typography - Information about typography: history, classification, type choice and the fontpool.
The International Type Index - A directory of fonts and foundries with the ambitious goal of indexing all existing fonts in the world.
Ban Comic Sans - Download and print stickers and flyers to campaign against the font, also free comic fonts to use instead.
Font Lover - Font news from around the globe and A+ font links.
Creative Pro : Fonts Department - Font news and software reviews links. Exclusive feature articles on typography from Creative Pro's staff of graphic design writers.
Information Design Associates - Corporate, information design, and web design.
ABC Typography - Virtual Museum of Typography.
Name This Font - Encyclopedia of letterforms. Information on the author plus where to purchase the book.
daidala - A weblog by Jon Coltz. Features reviews of typefaces and observations from the life of a type lover.
Character Design Standards - General rules for character shapes in Latin based languages in digital fonts. From Microsoft.com.
Typographic - Information on typography from 3500 B.C. to the present day, including evolution, timeline, anatomy, image gallery, studies, glossary and related information.
National Print Museum - Site of Ireland's National Print Museum. Includes a short tour of the museum, description of exhibits, a brief history of printing in Ireland and visitor information.
The Evolution of Type - Information on the main characteristics of the letterform, styles and elements of printing types, and the history of the alphabet.
DigitalThread: TypeHaus - Contains featured foundries, honorable foundries, type resources, and typography links.
Type Books - Resource for publications concerning the letterform arts.
Typotheque - Information about typography, free type utilities, articles on type and type design, and fonts for sale.
LetterPerfect - Design services, lettering tours, publications, and fonts available for purchase and download.
Arabic Type - Research on Arabic typography, its relationship to calligraphy and culture, and the development of new Arabic fonts.
Alphabet and Letter - Information on alphabets from around the world, with chapters from "The Alphabet and Elements of Lettering" written by Frederic W. Goudy.
Medieval Unicode Font Initiative - Non-profit group of scholars working toward a solution to the problem of encoding special characters in Medieval texts written in the Latin alphabet.
TypoBlog - Medium sized article, subtitled "How personal typographic Web sites are giving the musty, elitist field of typography is a stiff kick in the keister"
Arabic typography - Arabic typographical experiments.
Microsoft Typography - Typography news headlines, 'link of the day','book recommendations' and a updated database of type and typography related sites.
Greeking Machine - Lorem Ipsum generator supporting Latin and several humorous choices.
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.
Typographica. A Journal of Typography. - News, observations, and open commentary on fonts and typographic design.
BBC News: Helvetica at 50 - The Helvetica font is celebrating its 50th birthday. You've probably seen it a thousand times today. Why?
Will-Harris House Writing, Design and Typography - 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.
Typolis - 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.
Cary Graphic Arts Press - Publication arm of the Melbert Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology, offering publications on the history of the graphic arts.
ATypI - The site of the Association Typographique International, the organisation of the international type community. Information on events, ATypI publications and conferences.
Commonly Confused Characters - Unicode and graphic examples of proper quote, hyphen, and space encoding and typographical mistakes.
Types and Typography - A guide - A complete guide to the history and science of types, fonts and typography.
The Glory of Chinese Printing - 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.
Cavendish Typography - Gallery of images and text relating to typography and print through the ages.
Dr. Leslie and The Composing Room - MFA thesis project by Erin K. Malone explores the history of typesetting firm located in New York City.
Alphabytes - Dedicated to excellence in graphic design and the promotion of typography, calligraphy and the lettering arts.
Typophile - Active discussion board with font identification and type design critique forums. Sporadic features include interviews with typographers, news feed, and type design courses.
Planet Typography - 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 - Exploration and experimentation between typography and imagery.
Typo.cz - Information on Central European typography includes foundry listing, software, books and general rules. In English and Czech.
TypeRight - Mission: to promote typefaces as creative works and to advocate their legal protection as intellectual property.
Pixel Fonts Explained - In-depth look at the history of bitmap (pixel) typography.
The Typographic Circle - Membership organization providing information on committee, events, publications and membership.
Encyclopaedia of Typography and Electronic Communication - A short-subject encyclopedia and glossary covering typography, printing, electronic publishing, and electronic communication.

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