Typography

Typography
History 
Glossaries and Related 
Discussion Lists 
Tools 
Typeface Directories
 

Typography

Adobe Type Library 
Apple - Font section 
ATypI - Association Typographique Internationale 
CounterSpace 
Designers - Index of font designers 
DT&G Magazine - Typography section 
DT&G Newsletter - Design and type 
Emigre Magazine 
Encyclopaedia of Typography  
FAQ About Fonts - Walsh 
Font Magazine  
FontSite - Articles; free American flag font 
Fontzone - Articles, news, columns 
Goudy International Center 
Internet Type Designers Association  
Microsoft Typography - News 
Scriptorium - Magazine 
Serif - Magazine 
Society of Scribes  
SoTA (Society of Typographic Aficionados)  
TutorialHunt - Typography articles 
Type Books - Comprehensive list 
Type Directors Club  
Type Talk - EyeWire (Robin Williams) 
TrueType Topography - Ref. manual; FAQs, etc.  
TypeRight - Advocate for legal and ethical 
   issues regarding type 
typoGRAPHIC 
Typographica - Type news  
Typography, a Closer Look - Internet Eye 
Typography, a Closer Look, Part 2 - Internet Eye 
Typophile - Will Harris 
Unicode Consortium  
Visual Language - Scholarly Journal 
Why Not to Use Avant Garde 
W3C - Fonts and the Web  
Will-Harris Wire 
x-height - Online magazine (FontHaus) 
  

Discussion Lists  

Typo-L 
Designer's Cafe   

Tools  

3-D Keyboard - Useful for typing European languages 
DesktopPublishing - Links to utilities
DTP-Software - FontLab, ScanFont, TypeTool, SigMaker, FontExpert 
Embedding Font Tool - Microsoft 
Font Finder
- Resources to help identify fonts 
Font Foundry - Typograf and ABC shareware 
FontLab -  
Fontographer - Macromedia font-creation program
Font Properties Extensions - MS
Font Properties Editor - MS 
Font Fusion - Bitstream font engine 
Font Reserve - Bitstream
(replaces Font Navigator)
Neuber Software - Typograf  
Technology News - Fontzone  
Typospace  
Using CorelDraw to create Fonts - Laurie McCanna 

Font Viewers  
ZDNet Downloads - Type in "free font viewer" 
CNET Downloads - Type in "free font viewer"  

 

History 

APHA (American Printing History Association)  
Blackletter: Type and National Identity  
Brief History of Type - Also definitions of letterforms 
The Gutenberg Inheritance 
A History of TrueType
Melbourne Museum of Printing 
SHARP - Society for the History of Authorship,
  Reading, and Publishing 
TrueType - Glossary 
Typography Online - Notable typographers of the
   20th century 
World of Fonts - History of type used by print
   designers 

Glossaries and Related 

CounterSpace 
Disagreeably Facetious Type - Glossary
Evolution of Type 
Melbourne Museum of Printing - Glossary, incl. type 
Rainwater Press - Glossary of printing and type 
Type Classification - Classifications through history 
Typefaces: Foreign Languages - Language Hub
Typesetting and Publishing Glossary 
Virtual Museum of the Printing Press - Glossary  
  

Typeface Directories

Acid Fonts 
Celtic Fonts
  
Cool Archives - Dingbats 
Creationflux
 
Font Empire - Theme creator 
Font Freak - Large freeware source 
Font Mania 
Font Pool 
Fontscape - List 
Font Source Paradise - Foundries, freeware, etc. 
Global Connector - Dingbats 
Google Directory 
Internet Eye - List 
Yahoo  
Yamada Language Center - Languages of the world; 
   info and font downloads   

 

 

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A volunteer site to help STC members and other technical communicators by Tom Barnett, Gilbert, AZ.
Launched on April 15, 2003. Launched on azsrp.com January 1, 2001 (01/01/01).
Last updated June 11, 2003.