Knowledge Resources
From Open Font Library Wiki
External knowledge resources for all matters concerning type design and type technology for the free desktop.
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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.
- decodeunicode.org -- open database project, aimed at providing an extensive overview of the whole unicode character range.
- Linotype Font Lounge
- TypeForge -- thesis project aimed at collaborative open source type design.
- TypoPhile -- extensive portal for typography, type design and font technology.
- xml.com: SVG and Typography
- comp.fonts FONT FAQ - Comprehensive, but last updated in 1996
- TypeCulture Academic Resources - fresh academic essays on type
- Type Designers Club Type Dictionary - a dictionary of type design terminology
- Wikipedia's List of Type Designers
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Specifications and Standards
- Known Font Formats and their Specs
- Adobe's Type1 Font Format Specification (pdf)
- Unicode Home Page
- The complete Panose-1 specification
- The SVG Font Specification...
- Raph Levien's Comments on the early SVG spec. in 1999
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Font Management
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Non-english
- TypoWiki (de) -- open typography resource (German).
Please see documentation on customizing the interface and the User's Guide for usage and configuration help.
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