This is a loose collection of links, some are useful, some fun, some inspirational. It serves as a resource for my students mainly and is updated irregularly. Hope you find it useful!
F O U N D R I E S
Directory of Typefoundries
This is very useful collection of many many typefoundries with some extra info about licensing
Typefoundries Archive
Another and maybe the most complete collection of foundries worldwide
Typotheque
Based in the Netherlands, extreme ranges and always a good resource for reading
Commercialtype
US american home to some of the most beautiful typefaces
205TF
French foundry with a very nice range of designerns and designs
Bold Monday
Solid Dutch type design
Colophon
British custom and retail type design
Schick Toikka
German Finnish duo, go to place for super nice stuff
Fatype
My favourite small boutique for fresh Swiss Estonian type design
Typemates
German foundry working on retail and custom designs
Grilli Type
Twisted Swiss type design
Dinamo
Swiss type design and funk with the best webfonts testsite
29Letters
Spain based foundry with my favourite Arabic typefaces
Klim Type
Beautiful type design from New Zealand
Oh No Type
If you're looking for fun display type, this is the place, based in the US
Coppers and Brasses
Canada based foundry with nice and fun designs
F O N T P L A T F O R M S
Future Fonts
Collection of foundries with typefaces in the making
Fontstand
Find, try, rent or buy fonts by independent foundries
I N S P I R A T I O N
Letterform Archive
THE letterform Archive, a true treasure
Archives Design
Collection of graphic design items that are available online
Typografische Monatsblätter Research Archive
TM from 1960-90
Hoverstates
Archive of neat webdesign samples
Typografica
Articles on typefaces, books etc.
I love Typography
Typography Blog plus typeface shop
Fonts In Use
Extensive collection of fonts in use : )
Forgotten Shapes
This is a mix of somewhat lost type shapes and a small shop
T Y P E D E S I G N / T Y P E T E C H
Bezier Curves
Technical explanation about the curves we draw
Punctuation
Linguistic background and more info about the small items in the set
Variable Fonts
Nice site gathering info around this new fontformat
Can I use
What works where why, up-to-date browser support tables
Chroma Check
Perfectly simple check for support of colorfonts tables in browsers
Characterset Latin Plus
Underware's thourough research and definition and checking tool
Context of Diacritics
Wonderful database to see what needs to be known about diacritics and their neighbours
Compact Proofing
Article about the process of proofing and a very useful proofing text
Sample Text Generator
For all possible checking possibilities
Unicode made understandable
Fun way to understand and explore the wonderful world of Unicode
What Font
Small addon for Firefox to check typefaces used on a website
Typecooker
Parameterbased receipes randomly produced to trigger (im)possible new typesketches
Weight Distribution Models
If you wonder how your weights should be distributed on your weight axis
Type Test Site
Fontgauntlet by Dinamo lets you test your fonts (static and variable) on the web
Opentype Features
A little older yet good explanation of what they can do and how they work (with illustrations! in color!)
Opentype Cookbook
Brilliant resource by Tal Lemming if you're ready to get your hands dirty
Registered feature list
This is the official reference for opentype feature tags, very dry, very useful
About Gerrit Noordzij
All resources collected in one place
Check typeface names
Designing a typeface and wondering if the name is already taken, a good place to check
I D E N T I T Y
Branding Styleguides
A vast and broad collection
P U B L I S H E R S
Overview of independent publishers
Not much else to add
Unit Editions
Nice graphic design related books from the UK
Lars Müller Publishers
More books about architecture, graphic design and such, swiss based
Niggli
All the classics, swiss based
Counter Print
Nice books, all kind of categories, UK
Hyphenpress
Books on design, in the largest sense of the word, based in the UK
M A G A Z I N E S
Idea Magazine
Quarterly graphic design magazine from Tokyo
Works That Work
Essays about the impact of creative work in everyday life
Eye Magazine
Quarterly graphic design magazine from London
Footnotes Magazine
Periodical type design magazine by La Police
R E A D
Bad Type
Article on defining quality criteria for all type by Erik van Blokland
Typeface Quality
Good article with some handy criteria of how to evaluate typefaces by Indra Kupferschmid
Critical View on Font Classification
The boring topic of type classification with a historical context seen in a critical light by Indra Kupferschmid
Design Process of Signifier
Indepth documentation about the design process by Kris Sowersby, check also his other articles
L I S T E N
Type Radio
"Type is speech on paper. Typeradio is speech on type."
99% Invisible
About things we don't think about, design in the broadest sense
W A T C H
Herb Lubalin Lecture series
Part of the Type@Cooper program
ATypeI
Archived talks of AtypI conference
Letterform Lectures
Complementing series to the Type West type design program
IS Type
Archived talks of IS Type conference
Esad Amiens
The school's archival material from past programmes
Printing Films
Collection of vintage films that showcase the technologies and processes of printing
Last updated 2023
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