A few typography resources, tips, tutorials, advice.
Typography tips and advice for graphic design students, on this site, inspired by a conversation on Ben’s blog.
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface by Michael Beirut. Michael writes regularly on Design Observer. This is another of his typographical insights.
Web Design is 95% Typography, at Information Architects. An interesting read, with some top resources.
A few good fonts from Thinking with Type. Tens of thousands of digital typefaces are available. Most of them are junk. Here are a few nicely chosen ones from a great typography resource.
The Trouble With Em ‘n En (and other shady characters) by Peter K Sheerin at A List Apart. Hypens are not dashes… hyphens are not dashes…
Typography Articles and Essays from TypeCulture. A compilation of downloadable PDF articles and essays, with snippets for a quick overview.
Eric Gill got it wrong; a re-evaluation of Gill Sans from Typotheque. A focused article, obviously, but a revealing look at Gill Sans with some interesting alternatives.
20 free fonts for download pieced together by Vitaly Friedman. With so many crap freebies available, it’s nice to see a collection of carefully chosen options.
Any others you know of?
ed
Thanks for that, some useful fonts and nice not to have to search through hundreds of poor fonts to get to them.
Maybe one day I will get round to making one…
Jermayn Parker
Thank you, bookmarked!!
Mihaela Lica
Excellent list, David. I sometimes set up my Stumble settings to find such sites but I don’t have the time to create a comprehensible list… That’s really a pity, because they could really use as reference for many web users.
By the way, that gives me an idea: how long do you think it will take to create a Web encyclopaedia where to list only such resources and no crap? I think there is a real need for it. There is way too much useless content on the Web and that makes it really difficult to find genuine resources.
Terinea Weblog
A good list to get stuck into, this is definitely something I need to start considering for future websites.
Jamie
David Airey
Mig, StumbleUpon’s great, although I’ve not been using it much these days. I’m not sure how long it’d take to create an encyclopaedia, a few grey hairs by then.
johno
Some well-chosen resources, David. An excellent round-up. Thank you.
Asgeir Hoem
David,
LifeClever posted a pretty good list of resources yesterday that you might like:
http://www.lifeclever.com/web-typography-40-resources-tools/
David Airey
You’re very welcome, John.
Asgeir, thanks for the link. I’ll check it out.
Verne
Great collection, David. iA and A List Apart are sites I’ve recently begun subscribing to and have found them to be great design resources in general.
I haven’t ever really looked too far into typography beyond my own intuition, but have come across these resources/articles recently:
80 Beutiful Typefaces For Professional Design
Great Fonts for Web 2.0
Nathan
Interesting, the article on Gill Sans, I have always hated that font, save for the light faces. It’s just not proportionate for my tastes. I always thought I was just being a snob, but that article brings to light (though promoting another font) the parts of the font i find particularly horrible.