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Typography Link Collection

What a font designer do? (US BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS) https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2013/fall/yawhat.pdf

A Brief History of Typeface Styles and Classifications (Visme) https://visme.co/blog/different-types-of-fonts/

A Visual Guide to the Anatomy of Typography [Infographic] (Visme) https://visme.co/blog/type-anatomy/

Programs, plugins, other technology topics

Programming Languages and Libraries for typographic design

• https://processing.org/

• https://p5js.org/

Illustrator

Illustrator

Move handle while keeping direction https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/57057/how-to-move-one-bezier-anchor-point-while-keeping-the-direction-locked

Convert anchor back to have symmetrical handles https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/10759/moving-both-handles-of-a-bezier-curve-simultaneously-in-adobe-illustrator

Illustrator + Fontforge tutorial https://www.schoolofmotion.com/blog/custom-font-illustrator-fontforge

Illustrator Plugin

Astute Graphics Inkscribe https://astutegraphics.com/plugins/inkscribe

Astute Graphics collection on Illustrator plugins https://astutegraphics.com/learn/tutorial/third-party-illustrator-plugins

Fontself https://www.fontself.com/

Web typography

Web typography

nutshell by CSS tricks https://css-tricks.com/typography-for-developers/

nutshell by html5rocks https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webfonts/quick/

Fontforge

Fontforge

Fontforge official documentation https://fontforge.org/docs/

Fontforge detailed documentation http://designwithfontforge.com

Drawing Tools http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/Using_the_Fontforge_Drawing_Tools.html

Theory

Calligraphy

- Jake Rainis calligraphers's [guide on Broad Edge Calligraphy](https://jakerainis.com/blog/broad-edge-calligraphy-technique-a-comprehensive-guide-to-stroke-control-and-pen-manipulation/)

Resources for basics

- The punctuation guide https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/index.html - Love of Graphics https://www.loveofgraphics.com/design-theory/

Typo History

• Dan Reynolds type historian
  • flickr type collection https://www.flickr.com/photos/typeoff/with/48017506858/
  • typeoff websitehttps://www.typeoff.de/
• Default fonts of Operation Systems https://github.com/adrg/os-font-list/tree/master/md

List of important typographers in history

• https://alsojoshjackson.com/tibor-1

Typography Anatomy and Terms

• FontSmith - The A-Z of typographic terms https://www.fontsmith.com/blog/2016/06/29/the-a-z-of-typographic-terms
• Arabic Type Anatomy (typetogether) https://www.type-together.com/arabic-type-anatomy

Font design

• Mark Harvey typo notes on Paul Shaw's great website https://www.paulshawletterdesign.com/2013/11/michael-harveys-teaching-notes-1983-1995-part-8b/
• something

Font design Video

• Letterform Archive presentation

• How to make a Variable Font - TYPO Labs 2018 | Georg Seifert and Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer, creators of Glyphs

• TrueType Fundamentals - Microsoft.com
• Variable font animation https://codepen.io/michellebarker/pen/bPEWGK

Type Styles

• FontSmith - Font Styles https://www.fontsmith.com/blog/2019/06/24/a-guide-to-type-styles
• something

Typeworkshop - basics: terminology, spacing, shapes, digitizing etc. http://www.typeworkshop.com/index.php?id1=type-basics&id2=&id3=&id4=&id5=&idpic=06#pictloader

Interpolation theory (Lucas Fonts) https://www.lucasfonts.com/learn/interpolation-theory

I love typography - rengeteg cikk https://ilovetypography.com/contents/

Unos tipos duros - typo theory in Spanish https://www.unostiposduros.com/taller-de-tipografia-digital-2-conceptos-basicos/

Monotype's article about the work of a font engineer https://www.monotype.com/resources/expertise/font-engineering-explained

Calligraphy in Russian https://vk.com/@abuky-uprazhnenie-na-ugly-povorota-ploskogo-pera

Testing fonts for accessibility https://uxdesign.cc/testing-fonts-for-accessibility-817f47011078

‘Harmonised type design’ revisited https://tntypography.eu/resources-list/harmonised-type-design-revisited/

Carplate DIN development https://www.tiktok.com/@licenseplatetok/video/7325871335329221931?lang=en

Main typography sites, magazines to follow

Typography.network, news portal for the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, UK.

Design Reviewed

Font in Use

Font identifier web tools

https://www.fontspring.com/matcherator

https://www.whatfontis.com/

https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

https://www.fontsquirrel.com/matcherator

English / International

Thomas Jockin YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/jockt967/videos

Typewolf https://www.typewolf.com/

Printmag https://www.printmag.com/categories/typography

Typetoken http://www.typetoken.net/about/

Letterform Archive Emigre magazin, Linotype font design

Ilovetypography https://ilovetypography.com/

Typography Guru Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpzQFy83reu1u0e0elDTRjQ

Typography Guru Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/typographyguru

Hungarian sites

https://www.serifmag.com/ facebook

EKTF Eger, typozone

General media on graphics

Eye magazine http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/robin-nicholas

Other countries on fonts

Czech http://www.typo.cz/

Font shops

https://fonts.google.com/

https://www.fontshop.com/

https://www.myfonts.com/

https://www.fontspring.com/

https://www.futurefonts.xyz/

https://v-fonts.com/

https://www.fontfabric.com/

https://www.fonts.com/

https://www.linotype.com/catalog

https://www.dstype.com/variable-fonts

https://djr.com/font-of-the-month-club

Type Foundries, Type Designers

Type foundry list on futurefonts.xyz https://www.futurefonts.xyz/foundries

• Mark Simonson https://www.marksimonson.com/

• Kenneth Ormandy https://kennethormandy.com/

Hungary, Budapest

• Gidata, Kravjánszki Róbert, Csatai Péter http://www.font.hu/digitart/csatai.html, http://font.hu/pan/pan.html

• harom.studio https://harom.studio/DENSO-SANS

• Polgárdi Ákos https://akospolgardi.com/

• Luc Devroye gyűjtése magyar tipográfusokról http://luc.devroye.org/hungary.html

USA

• Joe Downer signpainting, typeface design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Downer_(sign_painter)

• Type Network https://occupant.typenetwork.com/

• A.A. Trabucco Campos https://trabuc.co/Typefaces

Canada

Mathieu Desjardins, Pangram Pangram - Website, Behance

UK

• Lewis MacDonald https://polytype.co.uk/spoof

• Toshi Omagari https://tosche.net/profile

France

• Typofonderie https://typofonderie.com/fonts/
• VJ Type https://vj-type.com/content/4-about
• x

Swiss

• Optimo, Gilles Gavillet - https://optimo.ch/about_optimo

• Dinamo Basel https://abcdinamo.com/contact

Germany

• list of Berlin type foundries by typeinberlin.com

• astype | Andreas Seidel

• Ludwig

• HVD font

• Lucas Fonts - most young type designers around Berlin learned in Luc's type design course

• Atlas Fonts http://www.atlasfonts.com/

• Ralph Michael Unger (RMU)

  • Trybuna https://www.linotype.com/1242172/trybuna-regular-product.html?SiteId=574

The Hague

• typotheque https://www.typotheque.com/studio/contact

Russia

• typetype studio, St Petersburg instagram website

Finland

• Helsinki type studio,https://helsinkitypestudio.com/

Poland

• Mateusz Machalski of Capitalics

  https://capitalics.wtf/en

  https://www.behance.net/MACHALSKI

• Łukasz Dziedzic (creator of Lato font) http://www.lukaszdziedzic.eu/

Prague, Czech Republic

• Type Together https://www.type-together.com/

Slovakia, Bratislava

• Ján Filípek https://www.dizajndesign.sk/

• Andrej Dieneš. https://www.adtypo.com/

Arabic typeface designers

• Dr. Nadine Chahine, Lebanese font designer, course on Arabic typography twice a year
  https://arabictype.com/

• Ibrahim Hamdi https://www.facebook.com/Ibro.Hamdi

• Titus Nemeth (owns site)

  • adobe fonts
  • University of Reading articles
  • Persian Type and Typography
  • Typo Talks
  • tntype twitter
  • Arabic Type-Making in the Machine Age (Brill)
  • Amazon
  • Criticism

• tptq of Kristyan Sarkis and Peter Bilak (from typotheque) https://tptq-arabic.com/studio/about

Other non-latin

Santhosh Thottingal, Indonesia

Bookbinders, Print houses

Lukácsy Tibor, Könyvműves

Terms about book binding and printing

Juxta Press, Italy

Images

Modern typography https://letterformarchive.org/uploads/

Corpus typographique français http://collections.bm-lyon.fr/mil/search?&hitStart=1176&hitPageSize=25

Museums

Europe

Pavillon Presse, Weimar https://pavillon-presse.de/

USA

Museum of Printing Haverhill https://museumofprinting.org/collection/

Sketchbook Gallery, Utah https://my.eng.utah.edu/~cs6710/Sketchbooks/graphic.html

Events, Courses

• Typo Thursday https://www.typeinberlin.com/

• Type Days Ljubljana http://www.tipobrda.com/

• Typogaráž, Bratislava http://typogaraz.sk/

• Vertigo Murals címfestő workshopok https://www.vertigomurals.com/new-blog

Media

Podcast

• What are Variable Fonts? with Jason Pamental https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/12/smashing-podcast-episode-5/

• Ohno radio

Filmek

• Sign Painters (2013) imdb vimeo official website

• Helvetica (2007) imdb

• Linotype: The Film (2012) imdb

• Abstract: The Art of Design | Jonathan Hoefler: Typeface Design Netflix description

• Abstract: The Art of Design | Paula Scher Youtube

• Typeface (2009) Youtube intro

• Papyrus sketch, Ryan Gosling

• Stutterer, Oscar-winning short movie imdb trailer

Youtube shorts

• Vox, Why this font is everywhere Youtube

Youtube really shorts

• Bob Dewhurst: Vintage Sign Painter (The Craftsmanship Initiative) - link

• Sign Painters - an insight into hand-lettered sign painting across America (NOWNESS) - link

• Honest Ed's Sign Painters: A Tradition of Craftmanship - link

• The Globe’s Dorchester printing plant goes dark | Boston Globe - link

Lectures

• Marianna Paszkowska – TYPO Berlin »Trigger« 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lBc4PdZY6g

• Typo talks https://www.typotalks.com/speakers/marianna-paszkowska/

• Typographics 2017: Uncharacteristic Characters with Jonathan Hoefler https://youtu.be/KUqtEJ9U-e8

Misc.

Nicholas Rougeux Midwest data artist and designer https://www.c82.net/

D-server https://www.d-server.de/v1/all/tag/typography/design-topics-2-21-4/

Gabby Lord, mixed selections
https://omglord.com/

Student Work: Typography I, Project 4: Visual Hierarchy link

Design resource list by Liz Steelman

Death of Helvetica https://envato.com/blog/death-of-helvetica-rise-of-the-bespoke-font/

Efficient Web Type, c. 1556, Kenneth Ormandy https://kennethormandy.com/journal/efficient-web-type-circa-1556/

Demystifying the Copperplate/Spencerian Script Enigma by Dr. Joseph Vitolo https://www.iampeth.com/lesson/engraver%E2%80%99s-script/demystifying-copperplatespencerian-script-enigma

Reedsy book design https://reedsy.com/design/book-designer

Karrier - things I learnd by publishing my first typeface https://uxdesign.cc/things-i-learned-by-publishing-my-first-typeface-77638cc9067b

Variable Fonts Are the Future of Web Type https://creativecloud.adobe.com/cc/discover/article/variable-fonts-are-the-future-of-web-type?locale=en

Microsoft, Variable Fonts - OpenType Font Variations Overview https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/otvaroverview

Keith Houston's books:

• The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
• Shady Characters

Linguistic characters: https://mnytud.arts.unideb.hu/mnyj/phonfont.htm