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Associations:
  Assoc. Typographique Internationale
Society of Typographic Aficionados
Type Directors Club
 
Places to learn
about type
design:
 

The evolution of type
Type Basics
Notes on type design
RSub Typographic
TypeCulture
Unostiposduros
Hand Lettering Basics
Typophile forums
Edward Johnston Foundation
Microsoft Typography
Gerrit Noordzij

 
Type Portals
  MyFonts
On slot and fonts
Typebase
 
Online Journals
  Fontlover
Typographica.org
Typographer.org
 
Identifying
Fonts:
 

WhatTheFont
Identifont

 
Classic Books:
 

The Elements of Typographic Style
(by Robert Bringhurst)
Stop Stealing Sheep
(by Erik Spiekermann & E. M. Ginger)
Thinking with Type
(by Ellen Lupton)
Counterpunch
(by Fred Smeijers)
Letters of Credit
(by Walter Tracy)
Designing Type
(by Karen Cheng)
Letterletter
(by Gerrit Noordzij)
The Stroke: Theory of Writing
(by Gerrit Noordzij)

 
Magazines
 

Baseline Magazine
Revista tipoGráfica

Typo Magazine
Cadernos de Tipografia
Tupigrafia

 
Other Projects
 

The Elements of Typographic Slyle applied to the Web
Diacritics Project

Carácter Tipográfico

 
Basic Software:
  FontLab
TypeTool
Fontographer
FontForge
 
Font Formats:
 

PostScript Type 1
TrueType
OpenType

 
Encoding:
  Unicode

 

 

 


References

We included here some useful links related to typographic studies. This page does not claim to be a web guide of type design, but just a list of a few initial references that we hope may help designers in their search for knowledge.

If you do not find what you are looking for here, try Google. ;)

If you know any other nice links that should be here, send them to us, so we can update our list.