Typography field guide
Quick mention for FontShop’s education page that includes useful typography PDFs.
PDFs on offer:
Meet Your Type: A Field Guide to Typography (52 pages)
Erik Spiekermann’s Typo Tips: Seven Rules for Better Typography (9 pages)
Type Anatomy: A Primer of Typographic Terms (2 pages)
The Right Font for the Job: Beyond the Look of the Letter (9 pages)
Via We Made This.
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Yeah this is a superb read, in fact the whole Education section is excellent. =]
Haven’t seen this before, very useful! Thanks!
Obviously, not only are you a typomaniac, you’re a block headed misogynistic sexist! LOL. I personally prefer looking at men’s bottoms. Not all people are men. Ah, go back to the 70′s where you came from!
How hilarious.If you go to the fontshop site, the text they use in the featured home page photo is more sexist swill about “girls,” and how “even if they’re stupid… bla bla bla.” And hey, i don’t mean to come off as a prig. I’m not. But even the AIGA has addressed why so few women make it as big name graphic designers. Oh well.
Funny timing! I just posted a tweet about this earlier in the week. In the “Typo Tips” there is a big typo on page 7 about bullets!
See if you can find it :)
I make more toypos than anyone, so I’ll zip it now.
(intentional typo) :)
Not only does he not like girls bottoms, but he dislikes orphans and widows too.
Thanks for the great post as always. We really get some useful tips and advice from your blog on a regular basis. Keep us posted!
They are superb resources – and the Meet Your Type document is really well designed, pretty inspiring stuff. And it’s free.
What a great creative resource thank you!
Great resouces! I’ve been trying to learn more about typography, because I absolutely love beautiful type.
I felt really nerdily awesome telling my friends I watched an hour and 20 min movie called “Helvetica” :D
Why can’t we be type geeks and like looking at bottoms? Just saying.