Knowledge Resources
From OFLB
Here is a list of links to other sites with knowledge about fonts, type design and related matters:
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General Resources
- LettEror Wiki - tools and knowledge from Dutch typographers, type designers and software developers Erik van Blokland and Just van Rossum.
- Type and Media's links
- TypoWiki (de) - open typography resource (in German)
- Linotype Font Lounge
- Typophile - extensive forum and wiki for type design and font technology.
- Type Designers Club Type Dictionary - a dictionary of type design terminology
- Wikipedia's List of Type Designers
- Typotheque/articles
- FontZone articles
- FontShop's "Font" magazine (with full PDF downloads)
- ATypI member's mailing list archives
How To Design New Type
- Type Cooker by Erik van Blokland (made for the "MA Type & Media" course at the Royal Academy in Den Haag) generates ideas for making type, and has some great notes about how to do it!
- Paulo Silva's FontForge tutorial (Portuguese)
- Briem.net is the home for his excellent type design tutorial
- Fontographer Manual
- Fontographer: Type By Design
- "WAD to RR: a letter about designing type" by Dwiggins in 1940
- TypeCulture Academic Resources - fresh academic essays on type
- Sketching Type
- Text to test type with collated by Eben Sorkin
- KLTF Notes, (technical) notes on font production
Bloggers
- James Mosley's blog - A great historian of typeface design
- Typblography - The blog of Adobe’s Type Development Team
- Phinney on Fonts - The blog of Thomas Phinney (Extensis, formerly Adobe) on fonts and typography with attention towards new technologies like web fonts.
- Typographer
- Typographica - review of typefaces and type books, with occasional commentary on fonts and typographic design.
Specifications and Standards
- FontForge Developer Mailing List has lots of people who know about these issues
- Known Font Formats and their Specs
- Adobe's Type1 Font Format Specification (pdf)
- Unicode has an official website, but the decodeunicode site may also be useful; an open database that gives an overview of the whole unicode character range.
- SVG Font Format Specification
- Panose-1 Type Classification Specification
- Adobe's introduction to OpenType
- Microsoft's OpenType specification
Font Management
Font Technology
- Freetype Project
- Pango Project
- FontConfig
- The Linux Documentation Project Font-HOWTO
- about.com Fonts 101
- xml.com: SVG and Typography
- comp.fonts FONT FAQ - Comprehensive, but last updated in 1996
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