Links & stuff
Here is an overview of font related resources:
Web sites & blogs
- www.typophile.com
- Nice overview of fonts in OS X
- Extensis PDF guide to best font practices in OS X
- An overview by Apple about font support in OS X Tiger
- Scroll down on this page for pages that compare various font management tools
- The Microsoft typography site
- Typoblog
- Typblography
- InDesignSecret’s list of their favorite sites
- Lists of the most popular fonts for print and for the web.
- The non-typographer’s guide to practical typeface selection
Free fonts
Suggestions for links are welcome. The tricky part is to find a site that offers high quality free fonts. After all I cannot recommend using just about any free font after telling you on other part of this site to stay away from those do-it-yourself amateur fonts
- Dafont seems to be a pretty popular site.
Books
I quite like “The Non-Designer’s Type Book” by Robin Williams which is a clear and well written book about typography. I haven’t read “Stop Stealing Sheep (and find out how type works)” by Erik Spiekermann and E.M. Ginger yet, nor “About Face: Reviving the Rules of Typography.” Both frequently are recommended in font-related discussions. “Types Best Remembered – Types Best Forgotten” from Robert Norton is apparently a very funny book.
Musea
Allow me to be a bit of a chauvinist: the most beautiful museum there is about typography, book binding and printing is the Plantin-Moretus museum in Antwerp, Belgium. It is only a short tram ride from where I live.
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Jokes about fonts? Try http://type.salsen.com/
http://abduzeedo.com/best-fonts-great-designers is a nice list of some top designers favorite fonts.