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Typography
- ABC Typography -
Virtual Museum of Typography.
- All Good Things Typography
- Information about typography: history, classification, type choice
and the fontpool.
- Alphabet and Letter
- Information on alphabets from around the world, with chapters from
"The Alphabet and Elements of Lettering" written by Frederic
W. Goudy.
- Alphabytes - Dedicated to
excellence in graphic design and the promotion of typography,
calligraphy and the lettering arts.
- Arabic Type - Research on
Arabic typography, its relationship to calligraphy and culture, and
the development of new Arabic fonts.
- Arabic typography -
Arabic typographical experiments.
- ATypI - The site of the
Association Typographique International, the organisation of the
international type community. Information on events, ATypI
publications and conferences.
- Ban Comic Sans - Download and
print stickers and flyers to campaign against the font, also free
comic fonts to use instead.
- 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.
- Cavendish Typography -
Gallery of images and text relating to typography and print through
the ages.
- Character
Design Standards - General rules for character shapes in Latin
based languages in digital fonts. From Microsoft.com.
- Commonly
Confused Characters - Unicode and graphic examples of proper
quote, hyphen, and space encoding and typographical mistakes.
- Creative
Pro : Fonts Department - Font news and software reviews links.
Exclusive feature articles on typography from Creative Pro's staff of
graphic design writers.
- daidala - A blog by Jon Coltz.
Features reviews of typefaces and observations from the life of a type
lover.
- DigitalThread:
TypeHaus - Contains featured foundries, honorable foundries, type
resources, and typography links.
- Dr. Leslie and The Composing Room
- MFA thesis project by Erin K. Malone explores the history of
typesetting firm located in New York City.
- Encyclopaedia
of Typography and Electronic Communication - A short-subject
encyclopedia and glossary covering typography, printing, electronic
publishing, and electronic communication.
- The Evolution
of Type - Information on the main characteristics of the
letterform, styles and elements of printing types, and the history of
the alphabet.
- Font Lover - Font news from
around the globe and A+ font links.
- 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.
- Greeking
Machine - Lorem Ipsum generator supporting Latin and several
humorous choices.
- Information Design Associates -
Corporate, information design, and web design.
- The International Type Index - A
directory of fonts and foundries with the ambitious goal of indexing
all existing fonts in the world.
- LetterPerfect - Design
services, lettering tours, publications, and fonts available for
purchase and download.
- 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.
- Name This Font -
Encyclopedia of letterforms. Information on the author plus where to
purchase the book.
- National Print Museum
- Site of Ireland's National Print Museum. Contains a short tour of
the museum, description of exhibits, a brief history of printing in
Ireland and visitor information.
- Pixel
Fonts Explained - In-depth look at the history of bitmap (pixel)
typography.
- 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.
- 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.
- Type Books - Resource for
publications concerning the letterform arts.
- TypeRight - Mission: to
promote typefaces as creative works and to advocate their legal
protection as intellectual property.
- Types and Typography - A
guide - A complete guide to the history and science of types,
fonts and typography.
- 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"
- Typo.cz - Information on Central
European typography includes foundry listing, software, books and
general rules. In English and Czech.
- Typographic -
Information on typography from 3500 B.C. to the present day, including
evolution, timeline, anatomy, image gallery, studies, glossary and
related information.
- typogRaphic - Exploration
and experimentation between typography and imagery.
- The Typographic Circle -
Membership organization providing information on committee, events,
publications and membership.
- Typographica. A Journal of
Typography. - News, observations, and open commentary on fonts and
typographic design.
- 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.
- Typophile - Active
discussion board with font identification and type design critique
forums. Sporadic features include interviews with typographers, news
feed, and type design courses.
- 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.
- Typotheque - Information
about typography, free type utilities, articles on type and type
design, and fonts for sale.
- 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.
- BBC News:
Helvetica at 50 - The Helvetica font is celebrating its 50th
birthday. You've probably seen it a thousand times today. Why? (May
9, 2007)
Computer Fonts
- Font Finder -
Tools and Resources for identifying and locating fonts.
- FontFinder.ws - Search
engine for free and commercial fonts from across the web. Search
results include previews and are sorted by relevancy.
- Fontresource -
Sorted foundries. Directly to creator site.
- FontSeek - Search for free
and commercial fonts on the web. Results comes with preview and
download link.
- Free-Fonts.com - Search
engine for free fonts on the web. Search results come with preview and
download URL.
Foundries
- Aerotype - Offer OpenType,
PostScript and TrueType fonts for Mac and Windows systems.
- Altered Ego Fonts -
Designs by Brian Sooy. Condensed and narrow-width text fonts. Also,
picture and dingbat fonts.
- Ancient World
Languages - TrueType and Postscript archaeology fonts Mayan,
Egyptian, archaeological font packages, and Native American
southeastern and southwestern Indian glyphs.
- Archive Type - Specializes
in fonts from old designs found in old prints, books and samples.
- Astigmatic One Eye -
Traditional styled typefaces, as well as many bizarre and theme styled
commercial and freeware typefaces.
- Baseline Fonts Design &
Type Co. - Baseline Fonts is an independent typeface foundry
offering a collection of historic fonts and new fonts.
- Bay Animation, Inc. -
Download and licensing information on LetterPress TrueType and
PostScript font collection. [PC/Mac]
- Berthold - Collections
of downloadable fonts offered for sale online. Includes lists of local
distributors.
- Bitstream
- Bitstream is the leading developer of font technology, digital
fonts, and custom typeface designs for a wide variety of markets.
- BrainEaters - Typefaces
based on B-Movies, Horror, Sci-Fi, Exploitation, and other trash.
- Canada Type - Founded in
2004 by Rebecca Alaccari and Patrick Griffin. Offers mostly revivals
of mid-20th century designs and some new designs.
- CastleType - An eclectic
collection of typefaces, including many art deco revivals, classic
type styles inspired by ancient sources, and decorative fonts.
- Chank - Minneapolis-based type
house offering custom font design services and font sales. [Windows,
MacOS]
- Charles
Rennie Mackintosh font - A TrueType font featuring the style
developed and made famous by the renowned scottish architect and
artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
- The Classic Font Company
- Classical font designs, postscript Type-1, TrueType, Acorn outline
fonts, high quality typography, classical type designs.
- Comicbook Fonts -
Produces fonts for comic book lettering. Also paraphernalia and links
to similar sites.
- Cool Fonts Online - Fonts
available for Windows and Mac download the font catalog in PDF format.
- Customised Font Design
- Providing custom fonts for Blue Chip clients. Logotypes, lettering
and some retail fonts.
- Dalton Maag - Font studio
offering font sales, custom font and logo design services. Based in
London, UK. [Windows, MacOS]
- Deniart Systems - From
Egyptian Hieroglyphics to modern Zodiacs, give documents a sense of
design with historically accurate symbol.
- Device Fonts - Retro-esque
fonts by Rian Hughes
- Dinc Type -
Designs include Barking Dog, Metropolitan, Broken Promise, and Instant
Karma.
- The Dingbatcave -
Original dingbat fonts by fine artists Ann Stretton and Stan Starbuck.
- DSType - Founded by Dino dos
Santos, based in Portugal. Diverse selection of styles. Mostly body
text and script fonts.
- Educational Fontware,
Inc - Independent design house that produces and sells handwriting
fonts for teachers and homeschoolers. Based in Bainbridge Island,
Washington State, USA. [Windows, MacOS]
- Electronic Font Foundry -
Developing multilingual fonts and specialist fonts for Risc OS,
Windows, Mac OS systems.
- Elfring Fonts - MICR / E13-B
fonts for check encoding plus secure fonts for print check amounts and
payee names.
- Emigre - Award-winning
independent type foundry always on the cutting edge.
- Emtype Foundry - Based in
Barcelona, Spain. Founded in 1997 by Eduardo Manso, Emtype produces
display and text fonts.
- The Enschede Font Foundry -
Original booktype faces in the 'Dutch' tradition of Jan van Krimpen
and Joh. Enschede. Most by designer Bram de Does.
- Fabrizio Schiavi Design -
Handhinted fonts, custom fonts, fonts for Flash.
- Font Bureau - An
independent digital type foundry located in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Font City - Decorative designs by
Artem Gerasimov, with extended character sets.
- Font Diner - Selection of
retro and 1950s style fonts.
- Font Mesa - Develops western
Truetype and Type1 for Windows and Mac, and logo fonts.
- Font Source - Company
specializes in signature fonts, logo fonts, educational fonts, and
commercial typefaces. Licensing for corporate identity typefaces,
custom typefaces and Delta+ professional hinting for screen clarity.
- Fonteam International
- View current catalog of Macintosh and PC Truetype fonts and
variations for sale as downloads. Information on character sets and
formats, downloads, ordering, and contact information.
- FontFont - Searchable catalog
with fonts created by different designers, covering a wide range of
styles and functions.
- FontGod - Creators of custom
handwriting fonts based on a customers handwriting style. Truetype
fonts for PC or Mac.
- Fonthead Design - A foundry
dedicated to creating quality, contemporary fonts that range from
whimsical to serious. Many free fonts available as well.
- Font-o-ville - Free original
typeface designs for Mac and PCs.
- Fonts by Dennis Palumbo
- Unique, original, handcrafted PostScript Type 1 Fonts, TrueType
Fonts and Typefaces for Windows and Macintosh.
- FontShop - Online font sales.
Browse by name, designer or foundry. Also provides custom creation and
conversions, blog and magazine. [Windows/MacOS]
- Fontsmith - Type designers
creating customised fonts for clients such as channel 4, Post Office,
Powergen, Saudi Aramco
- formgebung Atelier für Schrift
- Provide type design solutions for publishing professionals
throughout the world. Designed, digitized or modified thousands of
typefaces to meet customers needs. [Bilingual site]
- Fountain - The friendly
typefoundry. A Swedish typefoundry with some very nice original faces.
- Fuelfonts Type Foundry - A
small Swedish type foundry.
- Galápagos Design Group
- Professional type development and consultation. Originators of new
and interesting type designs. Free download of Web-O-Mints available.
- Garage Fonts - Offering a
selection of fonts created by type designers from around the globe.
- GD&T/SPC Symbol Font
- GD&T - Geometric Dimension and Tolerancing or SPC - Statistical
Process Control fonts for Windows or Mac applications including CAD,
Solidworks, Excel, Word, Wordperfect.
- Glyph Systems - Specializes
in custom type development, including TrueType, OpenType, PostScript
fonts, multilingual fonts, logo design and font conversions.
- Graphx Edge - Sales of font
collections. Available packages include calligraphy fonts and dingbat
fonts. [Windows, MacOS]
- Grilledcheese Fonts -
Original freeware, shareware, and commercial fonts downloadable for
Windows and Macintosh computers.
- House Industries -
Founded in 1993 by Andy Cruz and Rich Roat, House Industries has grown
into a studio which sells unique display typography, illustration and
design services.
- Jack Yan & Associates
Fonts - Australasia's leading font company, with a range of useful
and elegant typefaces.
- JL-types Ky
- Cyrillic, Central European, Baltic, Barcode fonts
- Just Another Foundry -
Text fonts with extended glyph sets and advanced typographic OpenType
features.
- Kenn Munk - Kenn Munk offers
alternative typefaces, dingbats and free stencils. The site also
includes his photos, clothing designs and the Versus Project.
- Killer Fonts - Typefaces
made from the handwriting of infamous killers and famous people.
- Letterhead Fonts -
Specializes in rare and unique old typefaces from the turn of the
century.
- Linguist's Software -
Commercial site specializing in fonts supporting more than 660
languages. Products include TrueType and Type 1 fonts plus keyboard
drivers for PC and Mac.
- Linotype Library - Offers
searchable library of original fonts (also organised by theme, style,
alphabetically), typeface identifier, custom font design and corporate
licensing services. [OpenType, Windows, MacOS]
- LucasFonts - Selected type
families all created by Luc(as) de Groot, available as PostScript or
TrueType for Windows and Macintosh. Well hinted TrueType fonts with a
large selection of weights.
- MADType - Matt Desmond's one
man type foundry. Specializes in unique original retail and custom
type design.
- Match Fonts - Offers a
large variety of fonts for Windows and Macintosh, text fonts, display
types, Calligraphy and handwriting, education, Foreign, special fonts
and custom fonts.
- Michael Browers -
Dingbat and display fonts by Michael Browers.
- MICR font - Font set with
auto-calibration program and anti-fraud secure number fonts. Free
samples available. [Windows/Macintosh]
- Mindcandy - Twelve type
foundries providing over 450 original, meticulously designed typefaces
for both display and body copy.
- Monotype - Sell
libraries of typefaces from independent foundries/designers. Also
offers custom font design, font licensing management services and
technology (printer drivers/layout engines).
- MVB Fonts - Publisher of
original typeface designs available in PostScript Type 1 format for
Macintosh and PC. Information on character sets and formats,
downloads, ordering, and contact information.
- MyFont - Custom handwriting
Font service. Order and contact information, and samples available for
viewing.
- One Way Out Fonts - Decorative
fonts. Fonts includes full character sets, 3 icons, and meticulous
kerning.
- P22 Type Foundry - Fonts denote a
cross section of art, natural science and history.
- ParaType, Inc - Font foundry
offering custom design/conversion services. Also sell fonts from their
own (and other) foundries. [Windows, MacOS]
- Personal Handwritten
Fonts - Personal handwriting converted into a personal computer
font. A signature feature is also included. Samples, and order forum.
- Pixietype - Offers bitmap,
pixel, screen fonts for use on for Internet and in Flash design.
- Popdog Fonts - Serious
fonts for serious people. Original english and greek fonts.
- Process Type Foundry
- Located in Minneapolis Minnesota, the Process Type Foundry is an
independent type design studio specializing in the production and
distribution of original typefaces for retail and custom use.
- Proggy Programming Fonts -
Fixed-width screen fonts that are designed for code listings.
- Psy/Ops Type - San Francisco's
type studio, featuring a unique type collection, and offering a full
range of typographic services. [Flash]
- Pure Confection
Dingbat Fonts - Dingbat fonts for web designers to use in creating
web graphics sets. Several free Windows TrueType fonts available.
- Quick Fonts - Logos and
signature converted into fonts for business and personal
communications.
- 2 Rebels - Type designers in
Montréal, Canada.
- Scriptorium
Fonts - Original fonts based on historical calligraphy and
digitizations of antique typefaces.
- SelfBuild Type Foundry -
Contemporary typefaces for Mac and PC.
- Shinn Type Foundry -
Assortment of contemporary typefaces designed by Nick Shinn. Each font
shown in four different formats.
- Sign DNA Fonts - Hand painted
script, casual and display fonts for signmakers, designers and
typographers. Available for Mac and PC in both PS and TT.
- SignatureFactory -
Convert signatures and logos to TrueType fonts. Sample conversions
available.
- Signfonts.com
- Fonts for sign artist, created by sign artist specifically for use
in sign design and vinyl cutting.
- Storm Type Foundry -
Information regarding a collection of fonts produced by Frantisek
Storm.
- 066.STUDIO - Small studio
founded in 1997 from Poland designing alternative fonts.
- Studio Daedalus
Comics Fonts - Featuring WhizBang, one of the very first authentic
comics lettering fonts made available to amateurs, semi-pros, and
publishers alike.
- Synfonts - Digital Type
foundry providing fonts to the type world since 1994.
- T-26 - Started by Carlos Segura in
1994, T-26’s then experimental fonts are now considered mainstream.
T-26 offers hundreds of original fonts.
- Telegraphics -
Telegraphics has been studying digital typography since 1986. Some of
our experiments are freely downloadable from the site.
- Terrapin Solutions Limited
- Sells collections of fonts from major foundries and barcode fonts.
Also offer custom font design and licencing services. Based in London,
UK.
- Test Pilot
Collective - A new type foundry featuring digital fonts and
graphic design.
- Thirstype - Retro modern
fonts.
- TLai Enterprises - Acquire
specialty fonts for military aircraft marking, sci-fi fonts and
several utilities for Macintosh-based PalmPilots.
- Treacyfaces: Headliners -
The home of true graphic arts quality typography.
- Treehouse -
Collection includes several unusual novelty fonts
- Typadelic Fonts - A small
foundry offering a wide range of very unique typefaces. Available in
Mac and PC format.
- the Type Fetish - Selection
of grunge fonts.
- The Type Quarry - A small
digital foundry specializing in historical, handwriting, and other
fine fonts for print and web designers.
- Typeco - Type foundry for the
designs of principal, James Grieshaber, as well as a provider of
typographic services and solutions.
- TypeCulture - Independent
digital type foundry and an academic resource with articles, essays,
movies, and research directory.
- Typephases Design
- A collection of freeware dingbats, illustration and text fonts
created by Joan Mas.
- Underware Type Foundry -
Underware is a (typo) graphic design studio that is specialized in
designing and producing typefaces. These are published for retail sale
or are especially tailor-made.
- URW++ - A
commercial typeface foundry providing high quality fonts for western
European, eastern European, Turkish, Baltic, Greek and Cyrillic
languages.
- Vanderfont - Vanderfont is
the online home for typefaces by illustrator and type designer Joe
VanDerBos.
- Vintage Type - Foundry
specializes in antique typewriter fonts for screenwriters and
old-fashioned telegram fonts. Additional fonts covering Celtic, label
maker, screenplay, classic, fun, books on type, and fonts for layout
and design.
- vLetter, inc. Custom Handwriting
Fonts and Signatures - Handwriting made into a handwriting font
using patented Real Cursive and Printed font technology. Downloads,
FAQs, product specification, ordering, and contact information.
- Waldorf Fonts TrueType -
Commercial TrueType fonts.
- Wood Type Fonts -
Fonts that are historically accurate reproductions of wood type
produced in the 19th century in a variety of styles. Fonts are
available only for the MAC in type 1 Postscript format.
- Zang-O-Fonts - Decorative
designs by Jamie Nazaroff.
Typographers
- Archetype font
creation and modification - Archetype creates and modifies fonts,
converts from Mac to PC format and back, creates and edits bitmaps,
installs special characters and graphics into existing fonts.
- Dan Cotton Lettering Design
- Hand lettering, calligraphy, graphic designs, and brush
illustrations.
- Everson Typography
- Samples of CeltScript, Everson Mono, Ogham and Inukitut.
- Face2Face -
Collaboratorium for turbulent typeface design and challenging
letterbased performances.
- Joe Finocchiaro Design -
Specializing in typeface design, symbol and logo design and graphic
illustrations with an emphasis on type.
- Keith Tam: typography + beyond -
An online type and typography resource including a typography web log,
articles on typography, type design and graphic design, links, book
reviews plus a portfolio of Keith Tam's typography and type design
work.
- Linotype
Library: Font Designer Gallery - Links to pages of type designers.
- Paul Baker
Typography - Information on typography in general as well as
gallery of typefaces designed for clients such as Yale University
Press, National Gallery of Art and Children's Memorial Hospital.
- Recife, Eduardo -
Misprinted Type - Portfolio of drawings and fonts, and information
on current projects.
- Richard Hunt,
Typographer - Biography and resume of Richard Hunt, Canadian
typographer, consultant and typography instructor. Includes teaching
philosophy and links to Archetype document formatting, font creation
and modification typography site.
- Typophage on the web -
Personal site dedicated to typo and graphic works of Christophe Badani.
Magazines
- Baseline - An
international typographic magazine includes articles, links, events,
forums and other information on typography.
- The FontSite - Monthly web
magazine devoted to digital typography and graphic design, offering
free fonts, fonts for sale, feature articles by well-known writers and
industry insiders and an extensive listing of resources related to
fonts and design.
- Fontzone - Opinion, news, and
reviews available with subscription. FontSpider locates articles on
other typography sites.
- Letter
Arts Review - International magazine for calligraphers and
lettering artists. Articles available with a subscription for a fee.
- Serif: The Magazine of Type
& Typography - Table of contents listings for past issues. Now
out of print.
- The Terminal - Online
magazine of the P22 type foundry, featuring interviews, essays and
articles about historical typography.
- Typofile Magazine
- Daniel Will-Harris offers essays and information about typography,
with an emphasis on readable fonts for the computer screen.
- Typographer.org - Digest
of typography news and commentary from David John Earls and Yves
Peters.
- U&lc Online -
The online companion to the ITC foundry's magazine. Features
commentary on current topics and issues in typography and graphic
design.
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