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TYPE DESIGN, TYPOGRAPHY, TYPEFACES AND FONTS

This web page is imperfect. I apologize for all errors and omissions. Please do not read it as a sort of ultimate reference, because it isn't. However, all type designers and typographers are hereby invited for drinks at my place in Montreal (map, address and phone number on my main page).

Learning and reading
about typography

Bezier curves | Blogs | Books on type | Choice of fonts | Conferences | (past conferences) | Font names/aliases | Font search engines | Glossaries | Latest links | Legal stuff | Musea | Newsgroups | Pangrams | Readability & Legibility | Studying typography | Type classification | Type competitions | Type designers (short) | Type designers (long) | Type examples | Type for TV | Type magazines | Type measurements | Type personalities | (past type competitions) | Type news | Typography |

History

18-th century foundries | 19-th century foundries | (extinct) 20-th century foundries | Photo type / film type era | History of type |

My own stuff

Articles on typography | Type research (over 250 free fonts) | Font hosting (for others) | Font samples | Randomly generated typo posters | Sugaku font series |

Freeware/shareware fonts

Archives | Small archives | Tiny archives | Font hosting | Original designs (many free fonts) | Original designs (a few free fonts) | Parasites | Regular as clockwork | Manfred Klein |

Hyperactive designers

Nick Curtis (unfinished) | Patrick Griffin (unfinished) | Jeff Levine | Manfred Klein | Dick Pape | Alejandro Paul (unfinished) |

Commercial fonts

Commercial fonts | Commercial fonts (small outfits) | Font vendors |

Handwriting

Architectural lettering | Brush | Calligraphy | Children's handwriting fonts | Comic/cartoon fonts | Didactic fonts for children | Fontcapture fonts | Fontifier fonts | Graffiti fonts | Handwriting fonts | Handwriting font archives | Penmanship | Randomized fonts | School fonts | Signature/logo fonts | Sketched typefaces | Treefrog types |

Specialized fonts

3D fonts | Art deco | Art nouveau | Arts and Crafts movement | Astrology | Athletic lettering | AutoCAD fonts | Barcode fonts | Bike-themed fonts | Blackboard type | Blackletter fonts | Braille fonts | Chess fonts | Christmas / Season's fonts | Codex | Constructivism | Dadaism | Deseret | Dingbats (archives) | Dingbats (original) | Drop cap fonts | Easter fonts | Erotic fonts | Escher | The Euro symbol | Experimental type | Fists, pointing hands | Hairline: very thin sans faces | Horror fonts | Kafkaesque typefaces | Kitchen tile fonts | Knitting | Map/travel dingbats | Mathematics fonts | MICR fonts | Monospaced fonts | Morse fonts | Movie fonts | Music fonts | OCR fonts | Octagonal typefaces | Origami | Orphaned typefaces | Palm pilot fonts | Peace fonts | Petroglyphs | Phonetic (IPA) fonts | Pixel/LED fonts | Playing card fonts | Pokemon fonts | Psychedelic types | Radio fonts | Randomized fonts | Ransom note fonts | Religious symbols | Runes | Scanbats | Science fiction fonts | Scrabble fonts | Shavian | sIFR | Sign language | Simulated Arabic | Simulated Cyrillic | Simulated Greek | Simulated Hebrew | Simulated Indic | Simulated Mexican | Simulated oriental fonts | Smileys | Snowflakes | Stone age fonts | Stencil fonts | Stitching | Typewriter fonts | Unicase typography | Valentine's Day fonts | Western fonts | Wood type fonts |

Type scenes by country

Software

Flash font software | Font editors (non-Mac) | Font editors (Mac) | Font managers (non-Mac) | Font managers (Mac) | Fonts and HTML | FontStruct Fonts | Mac<=>PC font conversion | OpenType | PDF font extraction | PostScript to TrueType conversion | Other font software | Randomized fonts | Standards/ISO/Unicode | TrueType software | TrueType to PostScript conversion | TrueType versus type 1 | Type 1 to OpenType conversion | Type 1 software | Type 3 fonts | Type 42 fonts | Web fonts | X windows font software |

Metafont

Metafont | TEX |

PostScript

EPS | General | Ghostscript | GNU sites | GX | My own useless intro | PDF | PostScript pages | PostScript to ... filters | ... to PostScript filters | Utilities |

Links

Main links to font link pages | Links to font link pages |

Contact

Luc Devroye
School of Computer Science
McGill University
Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6
lucdevroye@gmail.com
http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/index.html