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Typography Basics
- A Brief History of Type
- An Introduction to Type
- Type anatomy
- Typeface Classification
- Classifying Type
- Family Classifications of Type
- Classification of Type
- Typography Glossary
- Fonts & Typography Glossary
- A glossary of typographic terms
- Typography Terminology
- Type Glossary
- Encyclopaedia of Typography
- A History of TrueType
- OpenType
- TrueType & PostScript Type 1: What's the Difference?
Tips & Tutorials
- 15 tips to choose a good text type
- Five simple steps to better typography
- A practical guide to web typography
- Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (book)
- Tips on Type
- Designing with Type
- Practical guide to Web Typography
- Choosing a Typeface
- Choosing & Using Type
- Top 10 things that you can do to manage your fonts better
- Mulder's Stylesheets Tutorial - Lesson 3: Typography and layout
- To Hint or Not to Hint
- Tutorials for designing type by Hannes Famira
- Deriving Small Capitals from Capitals
- Balancing Typeface Legibility and Economy by Victor Gaultney
- Type Design Rules
- Sketching Type
Free Fonts
- My Favorite Free Fonts, by Vukan Karadzic
- dafont.com
- 25 Best Free Quality Fonts
- Free fonts downloads directory
- identifont - Free fonts
- Free Fonts by Blambot
- 15 Best License-Free Pixel Fonts
- Urban fonts
- Free Fonts by Shamrocking
- Rotodesign Free Fonts
- Free Fonts by Floodfonts
- FontFont: Free Downloads
- 19 More Free Quality Fonts
- The font used to create the Ubuntu logo
- Chank: Free Fonts
- Download Free Fonts and Dingbats
- fontscape : free fonts
- P-Font / Free Font
- Free Fonts from Typemotion
- Free Fonts by Koen Hachmang
- SMeltery : Free Fonts
- FontShop | Free Fonts
- Free fonts by Graphic Arts Unit
- Free Fonts by Glashaus
- emerald city fontwerks
- Miniml fonts
- K-Type free fonts
- Exljbris free fonts
- Fountain: Pro bono fonts
- Typebox / Free Font
- Free Fonts by Fontoville
- misprinted type freeware fonts
- Astigmatic Freeware Collection
- IAI fonts
- Harold's 100% Free Fonts
- PetitLatin by Manfred Klein
- pizzadude.dk free fonts
- WC Free Fonts
- Pixelyn: Free Fonts
- EUTYPOCE freeware fonts
- Aenigma Font Archive
- beaufonts
- Better fonts - over 10,000 fonts
- Act Select fonts
- Creamundo 9800 Free Fonts
- 6500 Free Fonts For Download
- Neat Fonts
- Die Gestalten - Free Fonts
- designerinaction.de free fonts
- Semplice Pixelfonts
- SimplytheBest Fonts
- Our Favorite Fonts of 2005 Part 1
Online font tools
Desktop Font Tools
Free Tools
- AMP Font Viewer
- Font Xplorer
- FontAgent
- Free&Easy Font Viewer
- PigFontViewer
- Font Frenzy
- FastFontSet
- Font Matcher
- The Font Thing
- IC Font
- FontForge
- Linotype FontExplorer X (mac)
- Font Safari (mac)
- Font Sampler (mac)
Commercial Tools
Books
- Type Rules!: The Designer's Guide to Professional Typography
- Hyphen Press
- Typographic Design: Form and Communication
- Typography Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Using Type in Graphic Design
- Typographic Specimens: The Great Typefaces
- The Complete Manual of Typography
- Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students
- Exploring Typography
- Typography: Formation +Transformation
- Getting it Right with Type: The Dos and Don'ts of Typography
Resources
- Planet typography - Online resources on typefaces and typography
- Type, handwriting, and lettering
- The European Type Design Directory
- Type, Typography and Fonts
- Articles & Essays
- Typography Articles by Ilene Strizver
- Adobe: Type topics
- Fonts & typography Resources
- Typography Resources
- International Type Index
- All Things Typographic
- Learn about Type
- Typographica - a journal of typography featuring news, observations, ...
- Thinking with Type
- Typographic and font management resources
- TypeBase.com
- Design Writing Research by Ellen Lupton
- Recommended font resources for web designers
Other
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