FONTS + TYPOGRAPHY RESOURCES

BOOKS

• “Elements of Typographic Style” by Robert Bringhurst - “the bible” of typeface design
• “Designing Type” by Karen Cheng
• The Ohno Book: A Serious Guide to Irreverent Type Design

COMMUNITIES

• Reddit r/typography
• typedrawers.com
• typwolf - what’s trending in type
• ilovetypography.com

DEV-RELATED

• Font Surgery Tools
• fontmake
• opentype.js
• fontkit
• fontools/fonttools - A library to manipulate font files from Python.
• Apple: TrueType Reference Manual
• Apple: About Apple Advanced Typography (AAT)
• fontsee - font viewer. see e.g., all the glyphs and opentype features encoded in a font
• Coldtype - an open-source Python library for programming animated display typography

OTHER

• typedesignresources.com
• Designing Types with FontForge
• How2typography: a primer
• Material Design: Understanding Typography
• This Gist of “getting started in type design”
• Open Type Cookbook
• Interesting Thread about Why Fonts Look Better on Mac
• Font Goggles - open source app for testing font rendering + text shaping. People use this when building fonts for inspecting the font as they work on it.
• dafont.com - big font community
• Article about Chinese font/typeface diggers
• Typography for Lawyers