Visual Resource:
How to Print Poster Flawlessly (Designyourway.net article)
Typography Posters: Tips, Best Practices, And 108 Examples (Designyourway.net article)
The Evolution of the Alphabet (Article and Graphic, MyModernMet.com)
My Type page on Pinterest
Designers Challenge Themselves to Create a Typographic Logo Every Day for a Year, and They’re Pretty Cool. (Word marks, Digital Synopsis)
Start Here:
Beginning Graphic Design: Typography
(Introductory Video: type classifications, hierarchy, leading, tracking, kerning, 6:32)
(also listed below under Videos)
The Facinating History of 10 Extra Letters the English Alphabet Used to Have (Video 9min.)
Beautiful Kinetic Type (Thank you Michael Beruit | Pentagram)
Readability vs Legibility (Creative Market: article with visual comparisons)
Type Vocabulary:
Typography Deconstructed (Type vocabulary)
Typography Deconstructed (Type Glossary)
Typography Vocabulary Cheatsheet (Interactive)
Learn Vocabulary:
Quizlet (Learn Typography Deconstructed Vocabulary)
(Excellent quiz, flashcards and test for Typography Deconstructed Vocabulary)
Quizlet (Learn Type Classifications)
Games and apps:
Fun type interaction: Text Particles (In the tool bar try changing the word and refreshing.)
IDEO Fontmap
What the Font (Upload an image to identify the font.)
Way too funny: The Critique Phrase Generator (dont know why, just fun)
Type Heavy Branded Events:
Typojanchi 2017 (Website for Typography Show in Seoul. Including animation.)
Prague School of Design Summer
Design Resources:
Graphic Design 1954-2004: from Elaine Lustig Cohen
Ellen Lupton: Free Skillshare Class on Posters
Gary Irwin’s project (Excellent example from Ellen’s Skillshare class of drawing, texture and negative space.
This post explains the designers process in detail.)
30 Nicely Designed Posters (article)
Typographied Objects (cool site of type applied to objects and type as objects.)
Victoria Macey (Bodoni Bedlam, hand made cut paper book.)
Sites related to type:
Letterology (Type blog)
Daily Drop Cap (Blog by Jessica Hische)
Explorations in Typography (type combos)
Font Explorerx
Fun type interaction: Text Particles (In the tool bar try changing the word and refreshing.)
Articles and Posts related to type:
How to Design Beautiful Typography Fast with Open Type Features (Article and tutorial from Creative Market)
Hidden Treasures: Reconstructing Lost Bauhaus Typefaces (Article from Adobe Create Magazine)
Xavier Monney’s slick and unique three-dimensional manipulations of type. (Article with multiple motion examples.)
Font Psychology/Emotion: What different Fonts mean. (article, interesting intro into font psychology)
The Psychology of Color (article)
Jan Tschichold: Master Typographer (Review of a book on Tschichold. Scroll down for books section to view full books)
Errol-Morris: How Typography Shapes our Perception of Truth (article)
15 Typographers thoughts on Type
Smashing Magazing: Article on typographic posters. (Excellent examples)
Erik Spiekermann (Type Designer, Extensis blog)
Alphabet Topography (Colossal, Article)
Brilliant New Typeface Combines Touchable Braille with Visible Letters (My Modern Met)
Fonts | Shops | Foundries:
Spoon Graphics (Blog article: 60 Quality Free Fonts You Probably Don’t Own, But Should!)
Adobe Fonts
Dafont.com (free)
FontShopFreeFonts
FontShopForStudents (Education Section sign up for discounts)
Hoefler & Frere-Jones Hoefler & Co. (History Wikipedia)
Hoefler & Co. (typography.com)
Web:
Adobe Edge
Google Web Fonts
Typekit
FontShop (Web fonts)
MyFonts (Web Fonts)
Books:
The Bolted Book (Kickstarter to reproduce old type book)
Typetoken: Paul Rand’s & Jan Tischold’s Type Specimen book (Book)
Jan Tschichold: The New Typography First English Translation, 1928 (Link to entire book .pdf)
Typography: By Emil Ruder (Article and images of book from 1964)
Transition of Modern Typography (in Europe & America 1950’s, 1060’s)
Videos | Interactive:
AirB&B introduces Font: Cereal (Interactive type journey)
Typolution (Video 3:12 min) (Letter)
The History of Typography (5min) (Letter, word, stop-motion)
Word as Image (Video 2:50 min)
What is Typography? GCFlearnfree.org
(hierarchy, leading, tracking, kerning) (Video 6:23min)
Beginning Graphic Design Tutorial Page (page contains number of videos)
Beginning Graphic Design: Layout and Composition
(Proximity, white space, alignment, contrast, repitition) (Video 5:14min)
How Typography Impacts Design (16 min)
Letterpress:
Alan Kitching: A life in Letterpress (Vimeo 5 min)
Logos:
Joann Fabrics logo redesign (blog post relates to kerning)
20 Unique Logo Designs (Good figure/ground examples)
Logo Orange (Great site with lots of blog entries on logo trends through the years.)
New York Times Article on the new MET logo
The World of Logotypes (By Al Cooper_Link to.pdf book from the 1960’s)
Hand-Lettering:
Hand-lettering Videos
Abbey Sy: The ABC’s of Hand Lettering
Illumination:
Ayesha Gamiet (Manuscript Alluminator)
Calligraphy:
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