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Graphic Design: Typography

This guide will help graphic design students with materials and resources for the Graphic Design programs

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Books & Ebooks

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A Crash Course in Typography

 

Basic Typography 

 

Practice Typography

 

abc typography

 

Planet typography

 

typographic

 

Fonts In Use

 

The Ultimate Guide to Basic Typography

 

A Crash Course in Typography: Principles for Combining Typefaces

 

Typography design: Rules and terms every designer must know

 

75 Logo Fonts Every Designer Should Know About

 

Your Ultimate Guide to Fonts and Typography

 

Microsoft Typography

 

Six Super Helpful Typography Cheat Sheets from WDL

 

Font Map

Explore this interactive map/AI experiment by IDEO that uses machine learning to arrange hundreds of fonts and surface new relationships between them.

 

Type Network

Brings together some of the most exciting independent type designers and foundries from around the world. Browse type design for branding to editorial design to websites and apps.

 

Design Is History

An archive that captures a glimpse into the history of graphic design.

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What is Typography?

Typography

typography design is the art of arranging a message in a readable and aesthetically pleasing composition.

Textbooks & Resources

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web: A practical guide to web typography by Richard Rutter

This book is a practical guide and companion reference to all aspects of typography on the web. It deftly combines implement­ation details with typographic theory, and is ideal for designers, developers and anyone else involved in the process of creating a website.

 

What is typography?

GCFGlobal

Typographic Design OER

Prof. John De Santis • OER Open Education Resource

 

OERT

Open Educational Resources for Typography

 

Using Typography to Communicate

Oer commons Course

 

Typography, layout, and Graphic Design

information on fonts, layouts, and designs

 

Letterform Archive

"The Archive was founded by Rob Saunders, a collector of the letter arts for over 40 years, as a place to share his private collection with the public. We opened to visitors in February 2015 and now offer hands-on access to a curated collection of over 60,000 items related to lettering, typography, calligraphy, and graphic design, spanning thousands of years of history."

 

Typographic Design

Pennstate

 

Summary of key rules for text 

rules for typography in design

 

Typographica [advanced resource]

 

Typewolf 

What’s Trending in Type

 

Tiff

Ever find yourself stuck between two fonts? With Tiff, users can select two different fonts to overlay against one another, making it easy to spot the differences. You can even choose which letters you'd like to compare -- both capitalized and lowercase.

 

Typography design 101: a guide to rules and terms

 

Typography Deconstructed

A comprehensive guide to the anatomy of type

 

ATypI - Association Typographique Internationale

ATypI is the premier worldwide organisation dedicated to type and typography. Founded in 1957, ATypI provides the structure for communication, information and action amongst the international type community.

 

Linotype Library

One of the world's largest font libraries; offering more than 4000 typefaces. Information about typography events, exhibitions, conferences, conventions and Linotype Library events are included. Click on 'Support' for a handy visual glossary of typographic terms from A to Z.

 

Identifont

Contains information about typefaces from major typeface libraries, including Adobe, Agfa-Monotype, Berthold, Bitstream, Elsner+Flake, Font Bureau, FontFont, ITC, Letraset, Linotype, P22, and URW++. 

 

Practical Typography

Set up as an easy reference guide for the beginning typographer with links to font basics, recommendations, text formatting and more.

 

A Short Introduction to the History of Graphic Design

From the dawn of writing until today, including the development of handwriting, history of type faces, history of books, Arts & Crafts and the Private Press, Posters, Printing History, History of Advertising, The Bauhaus, Digital Design and Digital Typography. Created by Nancy Stock-Allen.

 

Understanding typography

 

Use & Modify

A personal selection of "classy, punk, professional, incomplete, and weird typefaces", Use & Modify provides open-source fonts that are free to use and...you guessed it, modify.

Free Fonts

 Dafont

An enormous archive of freely downloadable fonts. Browse by alphabetical listing, by style, by author or by popularity.

Font Squirrel

Another extensive archive of free fonts, all free for commercial use.

 

Emotype

Emotype is a curated collection of free fonts that allows you to search based on the emotions you want to convey on your website.

 

BeFonts

A good collection of free fonts, including display, script and symbol fonts, as well as blackletter, retro and non-Western styles.

 

Fontjoy helps designers choose the best font combinations. Mix and match different fonts for the perfect pairing.

 

Google Fonts — hundreds of free webfonts hosted via Google or self-hosted

 

The League of Moveable Type

open source fonts

 

FontSpace

 

Opentype Fonts

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Designed by Rasmus Andersson

 

Fontslog

Download free fonts from FontsLog.com. Biggest searchable database of free OpenType fonts, available in OpenType format for Windows & Mac. Preview fonts by typing your own text. We have handpicked and organized more than 30,000 free fonts.

 

FontBase — a Free, Beautiful, and Fast Font Manager

 

Bermuda LP Open Font - FontZone.net

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Courses

Digital Typography (MIT OpenCourseWare)

This class introduces studies in the algorithmic manipulation of type as word, symbol, and form. Problems covered will include semantic filtering, inherently unstable letterforms, and spoken letters.

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