Resources.
Click through this curated collection of typography links.
*= especially helpful for pairing type
visual inspiration
- *Art of the Menu
- *Book Cover Archive
- *Fonts in Use
- Fontseek
- *For Print Only (FPO)
- Friends of Type
- Gratuitous Type
- *Lovely Package
- *Lovely Stationery
- *Oh So Beautiful Paper
- *September Industry
- *Siteinspire
- Specimenism
- *The Dieline
- Typeverything
- Type for You
- Type Goodness
- Type Token
- Typography Daily
- Typography Posters
- Typography Served
- Upscale Typography
- We Love Typography
blogs
online reference
- 100 Types
- A Typographic Anatomy Lesson
- AIGA’s “The Digital Past: When Typefaces Were Experimental” by Paul Shaw
- *“Best Practices of Combining Typefaces” by Douglas Bonneville for Smashing Magazine
- “Calligraphic Tendencies in the Development of Sanserif Types in the Twentieth Century” by Keith Tam
- *“Combining Type with Helvetica” by FontShop Fundamentals
- Explorations in Typography
- FontShop Education Section
- *FontShop FontLists
- *FontShop Super Families List
- *“Four Rules for Combining Typefaces” by Allan Haley for Dynamicgraphics.com
- *“Four Techniques for Combining Typefaces” by Hoefler & Frere-Jones
- Identifont
- Lynda.com
- Linotype's Font Magazine
- *“Marrying Types: All in the Family” by James Felici for CreativePro.com
- *“Marrying Types: Five-Part Harmony” by James Felici for CreativePro.com
- *“Marrying Types: Sans on Sans” by James Felici for CreativePro.com
- *“Mixing Typefaces” by U&lc
- “Neo-grotesque Sans Serifs of the 1950s and 1960s, their Historical Background and Development” by Mitja Miklavčič
- *“On Web Typography” by Jason Santa Maria for A List Apart
- Paul Shaw Letter Design Articles
- PBS Off Book: Type Video
- So You Need a Typeface Flowchart by Julian Hansen
- The Anatomy of a Letterform 1
- The Anatomy of a Letterform 2
- The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
- “The ‘Revival’ of Slab-serif Typefaces in the Twentieth Century” by Keith Tam
- *Thinking with Type
- “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface” by Michael Bierut
- “Three Chapters in the Development of Clarendon/Ionic Typefaces” by Mitja Miklavčič
- Typedia
- Typekit
- Typekit “About Face” Blog
- Typeradio
- Typography Deconstructed
- Typophile
- Typotheque Articles
- WhatTheFont
blogs
books & magazines
- 8 Faces
- Adrian Frutiger Typefaces: The Complete Works edited by Heidrun Osterer and Philipp Stamm
- Anatomy of a Typeface by Alexander S. Lawson
- Codex: The Journal of Typography
- Communication Arts, specifically Jonathan Hoefler’s “Editing Hands-On: Pairing Serifs and Sans Serifs” (May 2006)
- Detail in Typography by Jost Hochuli
- Fonts in Focus by Linotype/Monotype/ITC
- Gratuitous Type by Elana Schlenker
- Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield
- Printing Types, Their History, Forms, and Use: A Study in Survivals, Vol. 1 by Daniel Berkeley Updike
- Printing Types, Their History, Forms, and Use: A Study in Survivals, Vol. 2 by Daniel Berkeley Updike
- Slanted
- Texts on Type: Critical Writings on Typography edited by Steven Heller and Philip B. Meggs
- *Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton
- *The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
- Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, Vol. 1 by Jan Tholenaar, edited by Cees De Jong
- Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, Vol. 2 by Alston W. Purvis, edited by Cees De Jong
- Typeface: Classic Typography for Contemporary Design by Tamye Riggs
- Type: The Secret History of Letters by Simon Loxley