TYPOGRAPHY RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET

Typography Resources on the Internet

Edited by Peter Y. Chou, graphics tutor, Foothill College (updated: 8-8-96)

Typographic Finds from Search Engines:
A Glossary of Typographic Terms— http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/info/glossary.html (Adobe)
Glossary of Typographic Terms— http://www.slip.net/~graphion/gloss.html (Graphion)
Monotype Website Homepage— http://www.monotype.com/
Digiteyes Multimedia TypeArt Library— http://www.typeart.com/
Name that Font!— http://www.typeart.com/namethatfont.html
Paul Baker Typography— http://www.pbtweb.com/
The comp.fonts Home Page— http://jasper.ora.com/comp.fonts/
Will-Harris House— http://www.will-harris.com/whh.htm (Typofile online magazine)
Graphion's Online Type Museum— http://www.slip.net/~graphion/museum.html (Trajan Column)
Typographical Style:
Type Design Tips— http://www.typeart.com/typedesigntips.html
Typesetter Tips— http://www.typeart.com/typesettertips.html
Mixing & Matching Typefaces (Monotype)— http://www.monotype.com/html/reading/type101.html
Mix & Match Typeface Charts (Monotype)— http://www.monotype.com/html/reading/mixmatch.html
Type with Personality— http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/info/Info0.html
Elements of Typesetting Style— http://www.slip.net/~graphion/style.html
Indents— http://www.slip.net/~graphion/indents.html
Initial Capitals— http://www.slip.net/~graphion/caps.html
Leading— http://www.slip.net/~graphion/leading.html
Legibility— http://www.slip.net/~graphion/legible.html
Spacing— http://www.slip.net/~graphion/spacing.html
Biographical Sketches of Typographers:
Typographic Visionaries— http://www.slip.net/~graphion/type.html
John Baskerville (1706-1775)— http://www.slip.net/~graphion/basker.html
Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813)— http://www.slip.net/~graphion/bodoni.html
William Caslon (1692-1766)— http://www.slip.net/~graphion/caslon.html
William Caxton (1422-1491)— http://www.slip.net/~graphion/caxton.html
Eric Gill (1882-1940)— http://www.slip.net/~graphion/gill.html
Frederic W. Goudy (1865-1947)— http://www.slip.net/~graphion/goudy.html
John Gutenberg (1398-1468)— http://www.slip.net/~graphion/guten.html
Aldus Manutius (1450-1515)— http://www.slip.net/~graphion/aldus.html
Jan Tschichold (1902-1974)— http://www.slip.net/~graphion/tschich.html
Type Designers & Their Faces— http://jasper.ora.com/comp.fonts/design/designer.htm
Magazines on Typography:
Using Type— http://www.adobe.com/type/usingtype.html (Adobe's Online Magazine)
Serif: The Magazine of Type & Typography— http://www.quixote.com/serif/
Typographic Insights (Articles & Lectures):
Beatrice Warde: "The Crystal Goblet"— http://www.slip.net/~graphion/crystal.html
(An excerpt from Beatrice Warde's Lecture to the British Typographers' Guild)
Nicholas Fabian: "Type Design Notes"— http://webcom.net:80/~nfhome/design.htm
Peter Fraterdeus: "Words & Type Designers"— http://www.dol.com/Root/cafe/eat/ddeye.html
D. A. Hosek: "Centaur & Arrighi" (Serif, No. 1, Fall 1994) — http://www.quixote.com/serif/dh-centaur.html
Digital Age Typefaces (N.Y. Times, 8-5-96)— http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/0805font.html