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TYPE FOUNDRIES ¶
who is all out there?

Microsoft foundry list
Google list
Fontpool foundry list
Typebase font foundry list
Typemuseum list
Medium bold list

This list will work as a good start for browsing
List of foundries including Google page ranking

Very extensive and well organised list
for Austrian type lovers

IDENTIFY TYPE ¶
Found an image of type
but don't know the name?
These sites might help out

WhatTheFont
TypeNavigator
Identifont
Typophile ID board

made by MyFonts
made by FontShop

STUDY TYPE ¶
Continue studying type design on one of these academies

University of Reading
Type & Media
Zurich University of the Arts
other list
Luc Devroyes list

Reading, United Kingdom; theoretical approach (see some final results).
Den Haag, Holland; Gerrit Noorzij approach, post graduate of KABK
Zurich, Switzerland. Search on website for 'CAS' and 'type design'.

Extensive list of various places around the world for studying type.

TYPE WORKSHOPS ¶
a bunch of workshops
by various people

Type workshop site from Porchez : Porchez workshop in Reading : Porchez workshop at ENSAD
type class of Max Kisman
Chank's design camp workshop
Experimental Typography workshops by Lucas Nijs
type workshops by Andreu Balius
Paul van der Laan's pixel type workshop in Vienna and pixel type workshop in Basel
Cynthia Bathy's type workshop in Lahti
type workshops by Susana Carvalho and Kai Bernau

Of course, find all typeworkshops from this site in the archive.

REFERENCES ¶

Luc Devroyes site shows an extremely well documented overview of almost anything you can imagine considering type. Way better and way more advanced than this site. Go there, stay there.
Typebase. Very good portal with hundreds of links on typography

TYPE BASICS ¶
online courses
in type design

Hoefler's introduction to typedesign
Chank's how to
Briem
Hand lettering basics
Sketching type by Erik van Blokland, Ken Barber, John Downer, etc.

Don't forget Underware's type-basics on this site.

RESOURCES ¶
tons of info

On snot and fonts
Designing with type
Type Culture
Counterspace
Fontscape
MyFonts
FontShop
rsub
Gerrit Noordzij

BLOGS ¶
personal info

Voshaar
MyFonts blog
Fawny.org
Type for you
Typo 5
Snog Blog
Slanted
Spiekermann
Live Journal
Daily type
Tipografia
This is not a weblog
Letritas

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ONLINE READING ¶
start reading
straight away!

Typotheque
Emigre
Fontzone
Creative Pro
Hyphen Press

BOOKS ON TYPE ¶

   classic books



   Looking for old books on    typography?

Typebooks.org shows an extensive list of books on typography. Check this list!

Stop steeling sheep by Erik Spiekermann & E. M. Ginger
The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
Modern Typography by Robin Kinross

Oak Knoll Books
BookFinder.com

Books are available in specialized bookshops. Can't find your local shop? Go to Nijhof & Lee in Amsterdam.

SOFTWARE ¶
   basic




   advanced

Fontlab


TypeTool
Fontographer

VOLT
FontValidator
Adobe Font Development Kit
DTL FontMaster
Fontforge
TTX
Apple font tools
Metrics Machine
RoboFab
Superpolator

during the workshop FontLab will be the main program to create fonts
Fontlab manual (pdf) : Learn FontLab fast (*) : FontLab online tutorials :
Fontlab forum (help) : FontLab scripts : FontLab-Script info page
light version of FontLab. Watch the TypeTool instruction video
support : old manual (now developed by Pyrus/FontLab instead of Macromedia)
Microsoft tool to create OpenType (free)
Check if your fonts meet the Microsoft requirements (free)
Adobe font tool (free); FDK user to user forum
developed by DTL and URW (commercial)
open source font program
developed by Just van Rossum (free). TrueType to XML tool.
get your brains together
very handy kerning and spacing program by Tal Leming
programming tools by Erik van Blokland, Just van Rossum and Tal Leming
Letterror went another time to the max. Check the screencast.

FONT FORMATS ¶




   background

PostScript Type 1
TrueType
OpenType


Unicode

long time standard for Macintosh fonts
long time standard for PC's
relative new font format for Mac and PC. Read this or this to start with.
More info on OpenType: Adobe : Microsoft
hardcore technical questions on OpenType: Topica Email List
a unique number for every letter
Read more about Unicode at MyFonts, Adobe and more at Adobe.

ASSOCIATIONS ¶


   world wide

   North America




   Europe
     Austria
     Belgium
     Germany

      Holland


      Norway
      Spain
      United Kingdom

   Asia
      Japan


      India

ICOGRADA


ATypI

SOTA
Type Directors Club New York
AIGA
Graphic Artist Guild
GDC

Typographisches Gesellschaft
Plantin Genootschap
Type Directors Club Germany
Forum Typografie
ADCN
bNo
Broeikas
Grafill
ADG-FAD
Typographic Circle
ISTD

Type Directors Club Tokyo
NAGOYA
JAGDA
NID

Many associations are connected to ICOGRADA. Check their list.
Your local association is not mentioned down here?
Find it in their list
World wide association concerning type design

Society of Typographic Aficionados, organizers of TypeCon

American Institute of Graphic Arts, also in San Francisco
Society of Graphic Designers Canada






Art Directors Club Nederland
Amsterdam: Spellbound, Den Haag: Zefir7, Rotterdam: RomeoDelta
local designers club in Deventer

Art Directors & Graphic Designers Association

International Society of Typographic Designers


International Design Center NAGOYA
Japan Graphic Designers Associations
National Institue of Design