'Type & Typography'

60+ Typography & Font Mega Toolbox

A comprehensive list of [shots-self-in-foot?] free quality fonts, type tools and resources from tripwire magazine.

Jan Tschichold: a titan of typography

An engaging article written by Richard Hollis appeared in The Guardian, “ Jan Tschichold: a titan of typography“. Among his numerous accomplishments Jan Tschichold was the author of several tomes, including The Form of the Book.

10 Common Typography Mistakes

This well written article by Brian Hoff on Design Cubicle addresses the topic exactly as titled …

53 Mind-blowing Uses of Typography

A delicious collection of typographic designs compiled by Danny Outlaw on Psdtuts+ [a rather tasty blog / Photoshop / tutorials site].

Anatomy of a typeface

Anatomy of a typeface” is a very nice visual overview of typeface terminology and anatomy by David Brezina and Martin Pecina.

Fantastic Typography Blogs

A impressive [and addictive] compilation of Typography Blogs from Smashing Magazine.

Five simple steps to better typography

A highly worthwhile series of articles from Mark Boulton:

Font terms survey results, Thomas Phinney

The results-are-in! the inestimable Thomas [my other car is a sans serif] Phinney with the findings from his own Font terms survey.

Fonts and the Web

An excellent article by Juul Coolen at Web Designer Wall on the evolution of image replacement and web typography.

Inconspicuous vertical metrics

“There are generally taken to be five vertical measures of note in type design … but if you delve into the minutiae of font design, you soon discover that there are a slew of important vertical metrics that aren’t much talked about.” In this article on I Love Typography Alec Julien provides a thoroughly readable coverage of the topic.

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