Major Font Suppliers
See the Links
section for a selection of Shareware and Freeware font suppliers.
Eyewire
Photo supplier, but excellent type section with articles by Robin Williams,
author of The Non-Designers Type Book.
Bitstream
Font supplier and creator of the new Web Font Player, which is the first
step to embedding fonts in pages. Keep an eye on it.
Adobe
Long time leader in the font world. You will also find a few articles
and tips for typography.
Chank Fonts
If you like novelty fonts, you will find an excellent selection here.
Novelty fonts are great for headings when you are trying to set a mood,
but be careful—they can look tacky when not used right. ("I
like it" is not a good reason for a novelty font—must set
a mood or enhance an image.)
Agfa Monotype
Another long time industry leader for type. Top quality, professional
type and some high level typography discussion. The information is a
bit light, but the quality is excellent.
Dsgn
Haus (was Font Haus)
Like most in this list, another well established, respected name in
the font world. Many fonts, books, information and an interesting Community
Center that is worth a peek.
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Articles and Tutorials
MyFonts.com
Font fans must visit this site for at least the two features that demand
attention. The first is a search engine to identify a font. Scan the
font and upload the image—the image is compared to a database of
font styles and will return most likely results. Feature number two
brought me to attention is a font selection utility. Choose a font and
then request more or less of four different qualities like bold or contrast.
A suggested font is displayed according to your specifications. Perfect
when you have a font that is "just about right." Exciting
potential here!
Typography
and Layout Tutorial
This is an excellent source for basic typography information, written
by a certified typographer. Ironically, the site can be quite confusing,
but the information is well worth figuring out the navigation.
Xerox Type
Tutorial
Introduction to type, with excellent illustrations and explanations
of various font attributes.
Esperfonto
Superb and fun way to choose the correct font and learn a lot about
type and categories of type as you go. Make sure you stop at the Techniques
page, too. There is great design and type information through this site.
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Stages of Type Appreciation by Daniel Will-Harris. If you have
been to the site above, this name will be familiar. This Webreview.com
essay on is an excellent primer on type.
Web Page
Design for Designers: Typography features a well-written and
comprehensive look at what works with type on the Web. This features
text on the Web, rather than text as a graphic element, but well worth
a visit.
Yale
Web Style Guide provides basic description of the way
type behaves on a page, how the reader's eye follows the line of text,
etc.
WebGrammar.com
has an abundant links section for typography topics. While you are there
... you might want to check out the grammar information. There is nothing
worse than great type layout with grammar errors. Guess what the reader
remembers?
Roger
C Parker's Ten Rules of Good Design
This is not really a typography tutorial, but simple design instruction
is so hard to find I could not resist bringing this to the resource
section. It does fit with good typography, and you will find many type
references.
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