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
- typography.guru
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
- tofu.tools - cool demo of Unihan — CJK fonts sharing the same codepoint but using language code to render contextual alts
- specimen - nice replacement for mac os fontbook
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
- practicaltypography.com - tons of typography rules, more for font end-users not designers
- typographyforlawyers.com - kinda like practical typography but for lawers
- fontshare.com - provides good font pairings/font inspo
- Future Fonts - basically a marketplace of fonts
- Making Software - How To Make A Font - really fucking good breakdown of text rendering, how fonts work, etc.
- wakamaifondue.com - great visualization of opentype features, drop a font in and see what’s going on
- youworkforthem.com - trending fonts, etc.
- type.lol - another community/marketplace for type design
- the hardest working font in manhattan - really cool article about the font Gorton
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