December 4 2007 • 4:27 PM
Favorite Typography Sites
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Note that we’re focusing on sites about type, not where to buy fonts. We all know there are loads of places to buy fonts, but let’s look at where to get the inside story on them.
- John D Berry’s blog (I’ve known John for many years and I love peeking inside his brain. He has lots of articles at CreativePro.com, too.)
- More article about fonts at creativepro.com.
- Thomas Phinney’s blog
- The ABC Typography virtual museum of typography
- Typophile
- I Love Typography
- Typographica
- FontLover
- Typotheque
- Planet Typography
- Typography on Wikipedia (cooler info than you’d expect)
- Diacritics Project (how to design and why to use diacritical marks)
- TypeCulture
What do you think? Where do you like to go for your font/type fix?
http://www.helveticafilm.com/
I have not seen the film but I want to…
You hit some of the best places on the Web for learning about type (most notably Typophile.com), but here are some more fantastic sites/blogs, grouped accordingly:
Type Designers:
* Hoefler & Frere-Jones have a fantastic new blog on their fonts, as well as typography in general.
* Erik Spiekermann, designer of FF Meta and other types, has committed to updating his blog often.
* Others to watch are Christian Robertson’s Betatype and Mark Simonson’s Notebook (check out his articles on “The Scourge of Arial).
* Paul D. Hunt and Dan Reynolds are currently blogging about their work in the MA Type Design program at Reading, and if you read Spanish, check out Ramiro Espinoza, Juan Pablo de Gregorio; some English translations here; Gabriel Garcia Meave (some articles in English), and Alejandro lo Celso (also partly in English).
Type News:
* Microsoft Typography
* Type for You
* Typographer.org should keep you up to date on what’s happening in the type world.
Get more perspectives from
* Extensis
* P22
* Stephen Coles (FontShop)
* Yves Peters (FontShop)
* Roger Black
* James Mosley
I really want to see the Helvetica film too. kind of scary to admit… :)
Personally I’m new to typography, but find myself moving faster & faster towards it & all the advantages: design & just plain workflow wise. Thanks for sharing the websites & passion for typography…
I also likes ‘Unzipper’s’ columns about type. He takes a loot at type of movie posters too. Check it out: http://www.fontshop.be/
One of the best resources for typography available is the book “The Elements of Typographic Style” by Robert Bringhurst. A classic.
If you read spanish in http://www.unostiposduros.com you can learn a lot about typography
Dont forget… Misprinted Type. There some good free fonts and some PS brushes.
Thanks, Anne-Marie & David, for this posting. Through it, I discovered John Berry’s articles at CreativePro.com, of which I have now read a handful. They’re all great nuggets of typographical analysis and advice — of which I plan to read plenty more.
I second Mike’s recommendation of Bringhurst’s book — it is a superb “bible”.
I’m sure you’re all worried about what to give me for Xmas this year. I suggest you pool your resources and spring for the Adobe Font Folio 11 CD, which contains all of Adobe’s great fonts in OpenType format — see http://www.adobe.com/products/fontfolio/. It’s a great bargain, at a mere $2,600, and I will be very grateful to receive it. :-)
Thank you for the suggestion, Klaus. We gave a way a free 10-pack of the Font Folio at the last Creative Suite Conference in Chicago. It was a wonderful grand prize, courtesy of Adobe Systems. The person who won was stunned… never won anything before, much less anything as cool as this $5K box!
Wow, how I envy that lucky winner! I hope she/he could really use it — outside of typing fancy-fonted letters in MS Word, that is.
Check out my good friend Jos his site, free Dutch design Fonts, top of the notch. http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/diavlo.html
(I really like the Fontin and Diavlo)
Re: “Helvetica”…Netflix is already distributing the DVD (they appear to have purchased the DVD rights under a subsidiary called “Red Envelope”). My spouse, who likes type but is not a fan, glanced at the first few scenes and then was drawn in. It’s a personality-driven film, but the personalities are mostly people whose names are familiar to us. Her comment afterwards: “All of those typefaces were Helvetica?!”
I recommend this as another way to indulge that guilty pleasure when you have a spare 90 minutes.
Just stumbled across this one. http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/
I got a plugin for my web browser called Stumble Upon and it has a Graphic Design option, and I can stumble to different Graphic Design Websites. Some good, some bad.