Resources

• 18 Top Typography Resources | Creative Bloq
• 100 Top Resources for Typography and Hand-Lettering | gomedia
• Adobe Type Collections.
• Animography. Animated typefaces.
• Butterick’s Practical Typography and Typography for Lawyers.
• Commercial Type. Typefaces.
• Fonts.com. Fonts.
• FontBook, That Weighty Tome Of Typography Knowledge, Now Fits In Your Pocket On iPhone | TechCrunch
• I Love Typography blog.
• Handy Chart Helps You Understand the Elements of Typography | WIRED
• The League of Moveable Type. A collective of typeface designers who are making amazing fonts available under SIL’s Open Font License.
• Project Seen: “Seen” is a typeface that is concerned with privacy and the interception of our communications by the NSA. It automatically strikes through “spook words” as they are written.
• Typedia.
• Typekit by Adobe.
• Typewolf. Font recommendations and typeface inspiration. Typewolf Resources page.
• Type Connection Helps You Find Matching Typefaces | FastCompany
• Type Design | Wikipedia.
• Typography | Wikipedia.
• Typography.com. Fonts by Hoeffler & Co.
• Web Typography. The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web: A practical guide to web typography.
• We Love Typography.
• What’s The Difference Between A Font And A Typeface? | FastCompany.

Tools

• 47 Top Typography Tools and Resources | Mashable
• FontForge. An outline font editor.
• No Small Text for Firefox. Minimum Font for Google Chrome. Set minimum font sizes in several instances.
• Prototypo. Design original fonts. Currently a Kickstarter project.
• Size Calculator. A tool to calculate and convert between physical size, perceived size, and distance of an object.

Infographics

• Infographic: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Fonts | The Digital Reader
• Fonts & Feelings Psychology in Typography [Infographic].

Discussion and History

• You People Wouldn’t Believe the Type Design in Blade Runner | WIRED
• Inside the Hamilton Type Museum, Where You’re the Printer | WIRED
• Canada’s New Typeface Unifies the Country’s Many Languages | Wired
• This Awesome Typeface Stretches Like a Rubber Band | Wired
• Why It’s So Hard to Design Arabic Typefaces | Wired
• You Wouldn’t Think It, But Typeface Piracy Is a Big Problem | Wired
• You Can Buy Glasses Inspired By Famous Typefaces | FastCompany
• Helvetica’s Long-Lost Rival Has Been Resurrected After 35 Years | Gizmodo
• The Story of Lorem Ipsum: How Scrambled Text by Cicero Became the Standard For Typesetters Everywhere | Open Culture
• The Gorgeous Typeface That Drove Men Mad and Sparked a 100-Year Mystery | Gizmodo
• Why All Typefaces Are Optical Illusions | FastCompany
• 27 fonts* (give or take) that explain your world | Vox
• This Font Could Help Dyslexics Read Better | CNET + A Typeface For Dyslexics? Don’t Buy Into The Hype | FastCompany
• Matthew Carter: My Life in Typefaces. TedX Video. Creator of typefaces such as Verdana and Georgia.
• The 8 Worst Fonts In The World | FastCompany.
• An Abridged History Of Times New Roman, The Most Famous Font In The World | HuffPo. Discussion about the film. Film clip.
• Anatomy of Typefaces – an Opera on YouTube.
• The History of Typography – Animated Short | Ben Barrett-Forrest.
• The Incredible Histories Of Your Favorite Fonts | HuffPo.
• A Totally Definitive Ranking Of Fonts | HuffPo
• How Typeface Influences the Way We Read and Think | The Week.
• Papyrus: The Other Most Hated Font in the World.
• The Science Of Comic Sans | Fast Company. Researchers have gotten a lot better at understanding how the forms of letters evoke different emotional responses.
• ‘A Defense Of Comic Sans’: Vsauce Gives History Of The World’s Most Hated Font | HuffPo. Video clip.
• 100 Years Of Type In Design, Curated By Monotype | FastCompany. A new exhibit at AIGA in NYC explores the evolution of the modern letterform, from Eric Gill to Stefan Sagmeister.
• typeFaces. Using colour, setting, and sound, we personified a selected number of fonts in order for our audience to understand the important relationship between font use and desired mood.
• Typography | Off Book | PBS. Typeface designers Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones outline the importance of selecting the right font to convey a particular feeling.
• Unnoticed: Secret Life of Type Faces. Richard Wendorf explores the nature and history of the type faces by which we live, ranging from Roman capitals to the experimentation of William Morris at the Kelmscott Press.
• What It’s Like To Design A Font From Scratch | FastCompany.
• Why Sweden Commissioned Its Own Typeface | Gizmodo.

LAST UPDATED May 6, 2016