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New free font listings at 1001fonts.
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Type blog and news site, in Japanese.
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Abstract Fonts
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Growing 11000+ font archive maintained by Alex Chumak from Mississauga, ON. This used io be free, but is now partially commercial. Chumak himself designed these fonts: AF Pepsi, AF Champion, AF Tommy Hilfiger. Independent designers showcase their fonts here as well. New fonts. Fontspace link.
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AisleOne
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Interesting graphic design and typography news and blog site by Antonio Carusone. His CV in his own words: Born in Queens, NY into a colorful Italian family, Antonio Carusone has been in the creative arts since he was a child. His early artistic talents led him to NYCs esteemed, High School of Art and Design, where he graduated in 1997. He then attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and The Academy of Art College in San Francisco, where he studied Computer Animation. Currently Antonio resides in NYC, where he is a Senior Art Director at Ogilvy. Prior to Ogilvy he was an Art Director at Atmosphere BBDO where he worked on projects which have included Lays, Dial, Red Stripe, AOL, NFL, Gillette, Cingular, Audi, Verizon, and Bank of America. Type subpage. Commercial faces: Enotmik (2008, a monocase display typeface available in two weights, Light and Bold. Designed on a grid, Enotmik is made up of 90 and 45 degree angles).
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Links to free fonts for Japanese. Also, discussion and news on commercial Japanese fonts.
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Russian language type news and blog site managed by the Jakovlev Type Foundry. Subpage on Russian fonts.
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News page run by Nononina, the company that owns Alltop. It consists of Will Mayall, Kathryn Henkens and Guy Kawasaki: We import the stories of the top news websites and blogs for any given topic and display the headlines of the five most recent stories (except Moms.alltop which has fewer headlines because there are so many feeds). This an automated link page---don't expect original contributions to type.
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Newsgroup with many postings, loaded with hints, tips, pointers, subliminal messages and hacker info. On slow days, about 5 fonts get posted, while on some days (like December 17, 1997), over 1000 fonts are posted. In 1997, virtually every Adobe font was posted, as well as many fonts from Image Club Graphics, T-26, Letraset and ITC. Towards the end of 1998, the flow of fonts had dried up. In 1999 and 2000, it picked up again, with some posts having up to 10,000 commercial fonts in them. Presently, the Adobe collection gets posted about once per year in its entirety. See also StBen, StBen II, Usenet Replayer, binsearch.info, ngindex (not free, but you can see what is available).
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American Amateur Press Association (AAPA)
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Hebrew type designer. He now runs a nice Hebrew type blog and news page. This has a great Hebrew Typography Annotated Bibliography.
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Ukrainian site with font news and font helpings.
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ATypI, Association Typographique Internationale, is the type community's premier organization. Founded in 1957 by Charles Peignot. Its goals are
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Typography subgroup at the Behance Network collection of blogs.
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Type blog about new typefaces.
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Font news in English and Spanish. Lots of updates!
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Boicozine
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Design blog with an eye for typography, as practiced and created by designers. Example subpages include a typographic tour of the city of London (a 15 minute video).
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As Shirley Kaiser states: "An almost daily column about the web, design & development, typography, music and anything else". Type archive.
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A design collective with subpages on typefaces.
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comp.fonts group backed up at Google.
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Type news from this group located in Chicago.
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Font news on-line. Edited by John Berry. More specific page.
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The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network is the authoritative collection of materials related to the TeX typesetting system and Metafont. It has announcements, an archive, and an FTP download site. There are many subpages on fonts for TEX, including most metafonts ever created, as well as some type 1 and truetype font collections. See also here and here.
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DaFONT
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Useful French archive with nice categories such as Cartoons, Horror, Tech, Fantasy, Script, Symbols, Famous fonts, pixel fonts, typewriter, Gothic. It has the orthographic fonts by Douteau and Verchery, many Larabie and Scriptorium fonts, and so on. All designers are clearly identified. Links. About 6000 fonts now, with monthly additions. Newest stuff. Links to all designers. Run by Rodolphe Milan.
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Daidala
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Jonathan Coltz (University of Minnesota) writes eloquently about typography. He praises Linotype Janson Text, Linotype Sabon and Hoefler's Requiem, and condemns the awful digitization of Dwiggins' Electra by Linotype. Check his November 2, 2002 posting on the state of Greek fonts. His favorite typefaces, with discussion: FF Alega, FF Kievit, Requiem, Scene, FF Avance, FF Scala/FF Seria, Pastonchi (also here), LT/MT Sabon, Aetna. He also wrote opinions on FF Angie, Pastonchi, Ehrhardt, Avenir, Mendoza, FF Celeste, Syntax, Mrs Eaves, FF Meta, FF Eureka, TheMix, Loire, Columbus, Apollo, FF Super Grotesk, ITC Bodoni, and Kepler.
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Daily Type is a creative project run by four Russian type designers. Regularly updated page with many new type designs and ideas. Based on a concept of Yury Ostromentsky & Dasha Yarzhambek, the site features designs by Yury Gordon, Yury Ostromentsky, Dasha Yarzhambek, Dmitry Jakovlev and Ilya Ruderman, and was launched in 2005. Daily Type is a creative project run by several russian type designers. Day by day, they create original typefaces and post their results along with routine.
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Latest links and information added by David McCreedy to his great unicode pages for most languages.
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Type tag site. Very useful for finding and reporting interesting type links. It will remain useful until the spammers and businesses flood it with useless information. Typography sub-site.
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First established in 1994 to provide an online web site for DT&G Zine. DT&G was originally published each month on AOL and Compuserve for attendees of Fred Showker's design and publishing seminar and conference appearances. The Design & Publishing Center is owned by Showker Graphic Arts & Design, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA, established in 1972. Hot type news, type discussions, and links.
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Design & typo
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Peter Gabor's type blog and type education site.
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Design Observer
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A design site where one sometimes finds discussions on type. The founding writers are Michael Bierut, William Drenttel (an ex-typographer practicing law), Jessica Helfand and Rick Poynor. From Bierut's CV: Michael Bierut studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. Prior to joining Pentagram in 1990 as a partner in the firm's New York office, he worked for ten years at Vignelli Associates, ultimately as vice president of graphic design. His clients at Pentagram have included The Council of Fashion Designers of America, Harley-Davidson, The Minnesota Children's Museum, The Walt Disney Company, Mohawk Paper Mills, Motorola, Princeton University, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the New York Jets. Bierut's work is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Montreal. He has served as president of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) from 1988 to 1990 and is president emeritus of AIGA National. Michael was elected to the Alliance Graphique Internationale in 1989, and was elected to the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 2003. Michael is a Senior Critic in Graphic Design at the Yale School of Art. He writes frequently about design and the co-editor of the four-volume series Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic published by Allworth Press. In 1998 he co-edited and designed the monograph Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist. His commentaries about graphic design in everyday life can be heard nationally on the Public Radio International program "Studio 360."
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Type news in German.
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Designers Talk
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Oli Dale is the Manchester, UK-based designer of the futuristic sans face Busby Sans (2004). He also runs the Designers Talk type discussion page.
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designworkplan
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Type design and typography blog and news site (part of a much larger graphic design blog) run by Dutchman Sander Baumann. Alternate URL, where one can find his SymbolSigns-Basisset font made in 2009.
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Forum on DTP which exists since 1989. Sublist on fonts.
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Polish site in the style of Devian Tart.
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Media bookmarking site, with some type design coverage.
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DT&G Typography
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Type News site run by Freddy Showker. The Design & Publishing Center is owned by Showker Graphic Arts & Design, Harrisonburg, VA.
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Big free font download site (ca. 1900 fonts). Font authors. New fonts.
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Type discussion group.
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Font Programming Made Easy
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Dan Gayle's site about font production. Subpages on OpenType features.
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A list of free fonts from and for professional type designers. The archive is huge and clearly organized. Newly added faces. List of foundries.
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Font72
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Typographic links and resources brought to us by Graham Smith, a freelance brand and logo designer.
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Jürgen Siebert's great font blog (in German).
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Free font archival service, almost 10,000 strong. Latest additions.
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FontShop's type news site, with contributions by Yves Peters, Jürgen Siebert, Ivo Grabowitsch and Stephen Coles.
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Japanese font site with links to new Japanese fonts and Japanese font sites. Has some links for Western fonts as well.
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An advanced on-line font search engine. New free font alerts.
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Semi-lively forum oon the technical aspects of font design, and not just abut FontLab.
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News and messages.
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Type news and type blog located in Hungary, run by Tamas, Teufel, and Jobart (Eva and Gábor) and the Kóthay's (Eva, Sára, Kata and Gábor).
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Advertised as the center of Polish type. It has an active archive with many new postings.
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Fontshop blog with stories abouts its typefaces.
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Established in 1989 in Berlin by Erik Spiekermann, Joan Spiekermann and Neville Brody. Also offices in San Francisco, Australia, Austria and Norway. It has a formidable collection of fonts, better known as the FontFont collection. It is a major source of new type, and organizes a Conference in Berlin each year, called TYPO Berlin. Fontshop team. Designers. Subpages: FontFeed (font news), FontStruct (free modular fontre), FontBook.
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Free font hosting site. In 2009, it had over 550 designers and nearly 12,000 fonts, incredibly neatly categorized and cross-listed. List of participating designers. Newest additions.
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FontStruct
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A nifty and elegant free service by FontShop to make, share and download modular fonts, peppered, of course, with FontShop ads. FontStruct lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks. Once you're done building, FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts, ready to use in any Mac or Windows application. You can keep your creations to yourself, but we encourage users to share their "FontStructions". Explore the Gallery of fonts made by other FontStruct users and download them or even copy them and make your own variations. Creation page. It is amazing how the 100 or so basic shapes can be combined in many beautiful typefaces---this is not just a simple generalization of a pixel font editor. After only 3 weeks, FontStruct had over 21,000 registered users, and people had already made over 23,000 new fonts. FontStruct was made for FontShop by Robert Meek. List of many designers and fonts at FontStruct compiled by yours truly. My wishlist for them: to add all font designer names to their pages and inside the fonts, to organize a super-page with a list of all designers, to speed up the software and/or internet line (by a factor of ten), to fix the browser crashes reported by many (Allan Weiser and others; Mac OSX Leopard/Firefox has problems and still crashes Firefox as late as January 2010) and to enable mass downloads and mass downloads per designer. Tutorial (video) by Rob Meek. Discussion and opinion by Jason Fagone. Daumen9 made by Crissov in 2009 exposes the fundamental flaw of all modular designs that work within the limitations of truetype or opentype or type 1---one can't achieve proper small circles. Not FontStruct's error---blame it on short-sightedness of the font format engineers.
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Japanese links to free fonts.
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Free Fonts
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Excellent free font search engine. Run by Alexander Neuber. More direct page. Handwriting archive.
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Free font blog and news site maintained by Philipp Thom (Ulm, Germany).
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Blog related to a bookseller in Oakland, CA. They state: Grain Edit is a blog that covers contemporary graphic design and illustration as well as design from the from the golden era of advertising (1950s-1970s). Besides found tidbits of news, interviews and events we will be posting obscure kids books, annuals, type catalogues, corporate manuals, and designer monographs from our shelves. Type subpage. Archives.
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Nick Blume's German language web log about design and type.
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High Logic Font Forum
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Font Creator and Scanahand are font editors made by High Logic (Erwin denissen). They have an active form, with a lot of interesting technical discussions. Gallery of fonts made with High Logic software.
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I Love Typography
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Type information site and blog run since 2007 by graphic designer and web developer John D. Boardley from Kagawa, Japan. Glossary. Examples of inspiring use of display/poster type. Their exquisite logo.
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Big Russian font archive, nicely categorized and organized. New things.
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Spanish type and design blog/news page.
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Italic 2.0 is an Italian blog and type project, very central to all that is happening on the type scene in Italy. There is also a book by the same title, dated 2008, edited by Marta Bernstein, Luciano Perondi, and Silvia Sfligiotti, with articles by Giovanni Lussu, James Clough, Antonio Cavedoni, Marta Bernstein, Luciano Perondi, Giangiorgio Fuga, and Silvia Sfligiotti.
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This site has a blog and carries type news from "Typographe.com" (or: ATypI France), which is run in French by Jean-François Porchez, Damien Gautier, Jacques André, Nathalie Dumont, Guy Schockaert, Denis Ravizza, Matha Standún, Georges Plumet, Jack Yan and Jef Tombeur. Alternate URL. The team changed a bit in 2004 and now includes Martin L'Allier, Christophe Badani, Antoine Caillet, Xavier Dupré, Julien Janiszewski, Jean-Baptiste Levée, Georges Plumet, Jean-François Porchez, Jef Tombeur, and Jérôme Vogel. Trouvailles.
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Font news in English, Spanish and Galego. Lots of updates!
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A magnificent Argentinian type site under the direction of Rubén Fontana, Natalia Fernández and Pavlo Fontana that showcases most of the Latin type designers and their work. Fonts shown include Dalie, Downtempo, Jackie, Luchita Payol, Maest, Titulata, Lira Bitmap, Prompt, Baldosa, Khaki, LED Gothic, Outset, Quadra, and Tangomaniacs.
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Letritas
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Juan Pablo De Gregorio Concha is the Chilean designer (b. 1978) of the hip Bodoni face Isbel la Romana (2002). Alternate URL. Creator of Chúcara (2003), a typeface developed as part of his thesis for the School of Design of the Catholic University of Chile. His blog, Letritas, has many interesting technical type discussions. His other blog is Garabatitos. I especially like his article on the logical decomposition of letter forms.
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Linotype type news. This page hangs my browser.
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Barcelona-based Spanish type design blog. It is run by these people: zorglub, rare, PHOTO&GRAPHIC, Carlos Cabanas, Ángel, Arnau, Álvaro, Ángel, Josep Patau Bellart, lletraferit, clau4ni, Raúl Campuzano, Dídac Ballester, Andreu Balius, Eduardo Manso, txo, Txusmarcano, Víctor Palau.
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Mac font news.
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Russian type blogs. Another type blog there.
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On Art Lebedev's site, articles (snippets, really) on graphic and industrial design, interface engineering, typography, semiotics, and visualization. Has been up since 1997. Translated from Russian.
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Marginalia
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Very beautiful, original and informative Brazilian blog (in Portuguese) run by Paulo W. This is at the top of the heap, even if your Portuguese is rusty.
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Start page for typography at Microsoft.
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Archive with over 2000 dingbats, and a great dingbats links list.
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MyFonts.com: new links announced. Newest fonts. RSS feed.
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German version of MyFonts, launched in 2009. It is far from a copy---it is different, fresh, and has interesting typographic discussions. Jan Middendorp: We'll offer type reviews and case studies, interviews, historical articles and the occasional book or magazine review. It is a joint venture between Jan Middendorp and designer/co-editor Frank Rausch. Florian Hardwig is contributing editor.
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Ex-type design student at Reading who created Elpis (2004), a typeface designed for newspaper insert. She states that the typeface, which includes Greek, was inspired by Jan Van Krimpen, Gerard Unger and Georg Trump. Free download at the Greek Font Society. She also has subpages on Greek type and Greek type news.
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Newsdesigner.com
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News design blog. It discusses newspaper type at length. Run by Mark Friesen, a news designer at The Oregonian in Portland, OR, who has dabbled in daily newspapers for nearly 20 years. He has also worked for the Columbia Missourian, the Gazette-Times in Corvallis, OR, and The Ledger in Lakeland, FL, as a reporter, copy editor, designer and design editor.
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Calligraphy news blog.
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The Open Font Library is a sister project of the Open Clip Art Library. The goal of this project is to collect public domain fonts so that they may be used freely. And so, we have a few free truetype fonts at this place: Inkcalig (2006, a calligraphic face by James Kilfiger), LetsTracebasic (2006; a *very* readable light sans, even at small sizes), LetsTraceruled, RDS (2003, LED simulation face), TribalBenji (2005, by Benji Park), handfont (2005, Benji Park), handfontshadow (2005, Benji Park), PugsleyOblique (2006), AlphabetofChildren (2006, based on 16th century illuminated caps), AnimalSilhouette (2006), Fold (2006). Wiki page. Run by Jon Phillips, Benji Park, Nicu Buculei, Alexandre Prokoudine, and Simos Xenitellis. Many more followed in the years after that. Additional URL for Dave Crossland.
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OSP stands for Open Source Publishing (Design Tools for Designers). It is a blog and a news site.
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ParaType news, in Russian. De-Fis is ParaType's e-zine. Russian type glossary.
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Lebanon-based Arabic type designer who runs the Arab type news and blog site called Arabic Typography. An ex-student of the KABK in 2006, he currently is a part time instructor of design and typography at Notre Dame University, Louaize, Lebanon, as well as a part time instructor of typography at the American University of Beirut (AUB), both since 2007. He has embarked on a project with Martin Majoor to design some Arabic fonts that fit Majoor's designs. He writes: Massira is my graduation typeface at Type & Media postgraduate course at The Royal Academy of Arts [KABK] in The Hague. Huda AbiFares contacted me while I was finalizing Massira and presented the opportunity to collaborate with the Dutch type designer Martin Majoor to design an Arabic typeface, which is part of the Typographic Matchmaking 01 project organized by Khatt Foundation. At first I was a bit worried due to the fact that it would be my first professional type design work and that the due date was too close. However, after taking a closer look at Martins type FFSeria and analyzing its characteristics, I noticed that the treatment of the stroke and the structure of the letters shared similarities with Massira. In both fonts the use of sharp broken curves and crispy feel is present. Consequently, I grew confident in project and decided to use Massira as a starting point for the new Arabic companion of FFSeria. Echo, which is Sada in Arabic, is the repetition of a sound caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface. Accordingly, Sada is the echo of FFSeria. The modifications on Massira consisted of making Sada perform like FFSeria. It had to have the same point size, line space, color, contrast and feel as FFSeria. Concerning the details of Sada and the inclined angle of the vertical strokes, it was derived from the FFSeria Italic. So Sada has the same feel as the Roman but is inspired from the Italic. More on the Sada project. In 2009, sada was renamed FF Seria and published by FontFont. Another project of Zoghbi involves a type family being developed for newspaper headlines. In 2007, he created a 3-style Phoenician type family called Fniqiya. Home page. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he ran a workshop on the Arabic Kufi script. At , he made Arabix 01 (2009).
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French designer and type artist who made many custom and magazine fonts, since 1954. Among his creations: Elle Gabor (a *great* fashion-conscious geometric sans family), Firmin Didot, Libération (1994), Yves Saint-Laurent, American Match, Manu Script, Futura Canal, Les Échos, Moka Presse, the Mermoz family (a roman style mini-serif family), Nintendo (pixel face), Total (gas company), and Serge Lutens (a severe Calvinist face). Blog. There is an ongoing feud between Porchez and Gabor which has invaded the internet waves. Gabor's blog and Porchez's blog are the stages for this royal battle. Generally, Gabor decries the hypocrisy in the type industry and calls for the Foundation of a Sir Francis Drake Society. The Book Antiqua/Palatino case and the Bitstream/Linotype battle irked Gabor, and he likes to expose type designers whose fonts are too close to others.
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Design community.
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News stories and picture galleries related to graphic design and typography in France.
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Jean-Christophe Loubet del Bayle's web site on typography. In French. Besides articles, there are also useful type links. Old pages. Temps typographiques.
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Type news. Type museum. Small archive.
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New Russian language type news site and type blog.
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Jean-François Porchez's great on-line newspaper about type. Great web page. Full of information. A must! Lots of links to books.
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Type blog run by Armin Vit since 2001. Speak-up. Type subpages.
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Ralf Herrmann's Typography Weblog
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Web log. See also here for more news by Ralf Herrmann in English and German. Here he blogs about web fonts and web type matters. His Flicks stream.
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Font announcement site, in Russian.
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Font information site, in Russian.
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Type design and type examples at Smashing Magazine.
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Spatium Newsletter
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German site concerned with typography, type news, interviews, links, and discussions, and masterfully managed by Peter Reichard (Offenbach) and Christopher Lindlohr (Frankfurt). Peter designed the cute dingbat font PixelheadHandmadeBeta (2001). Pixel font links. Typosition is an on-line type-in-design mag (free, PDF format). Now also in print.
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Erik Spiekermann's type blog.
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Type and design blog of some interest.
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The League of Movable Type
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In-house free font creations include League Gothic (2009) [League Gothic is a revival of an old classic, and one of our favorite typefaces, Alternate Gothic No.1. It was originally designed by Morris Fuller Benton for the American Type Founders Company (ATF) in 1903. The company went bankrupt in 1993. And since the original typeface was created before 1923, the typeface is in the public domain.]
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The Ministry of Type
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British type blog run by Aegir Hallmundur.
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Spanish language web site with thoughts on type and design by Ramiro Espinoza.
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Spanish language type blog and type jump and news site. It has excerpts of many type articles, and subpages on type history, type design type designers and type foundries.
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Intro to type (in Russian). Discussion of web fonts, with links to free fonts (in Russian).
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Type and letter design site run by Olivera Stojadinović, Jana Nikolic and Olivera Batajic. Types shown there:
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Font blog.
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Twitter, the armpit of the cyber-universe, can be of passive use to some old geezers sniffing around the web. But that does not mean I like it. It's at the level of superficiality of Lou Dobbs or Berlusconi.
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Type blog at Adobe, now run by Paul Hunt. Before him, it was run by Thomas Phinney.
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Font Bureau's didactic blog on type.
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Type For You
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Portuguese type blog by Pedro Serrao, Joao Planche and Pedro Mesquita. Behance link.
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Flickr type specimen group.
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Type Theory
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Type Theory is a journal of contemporary typography featuring news, views, reviews and interviews. Ty Wilkins founded Type Theory in January of 2009. He graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design and currently works as a graphic designer for Gardner Design where he specializes in brand development. Ty Wilkins is the Macon, GA-based graphic designer who made the kitchen tile face TY Psychology (2006), and the modular trapezoidal face TY Krypton (2006).
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Type Tweets
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Type links in the style of Delicious, run by Minneapolis, MN-based Kyle Meyer, who works there for Clockwork Active Media Systems. He blogs at Astheria.
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Type UA
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Ukrainian type news site associated with Andrij Type of Andrij Shevchenko.
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Typebase
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TypeBase contains 508 links to fine quality typographic websites around the world, selected by Donald Roos [VetteLetter, was: Otherways] & Robert-Jan van Noort [Studio Pankra].
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Ingo Preuss's type portal, with links, news, discussions. In German.
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Typefoundry
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Personal blog of James Mosley, type historian. This is one of the deepest and most useful type sites in the world.
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Unsure what this is. The International Type Index is a free project from a non-profit organisation. The objective is to build a searchable database of all fonts from all foundries, from all the world, to the benefit of both users AND authors. As a non-profit project, TypeIndex.org is 100% user-built : the font database grows through submission of missing foundries, fonts, and reviews. Well, there you have it. There is type news, a type handbook, downloads of free fonts, links to commercial fonts, and a type museum.
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TypeNeu
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Type news for professionals. TypeNeu was originally founded in January 7, 2008 by digital designer Emil Olsson. At the end of 2008, he was joined by Andreas Pihlstrom.
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TypeOff
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typgrphy.com
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Active type news and type blog site, in Hungarian. By Jaksa Zsolt (b. 1979) from Budapest.
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Typies
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Chilean type blog (in English) run by Juan Pablo de Gregorio and Francisca Reyes in Santiago.
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Type news by Cybapee, a revival of her earlier page "Typesource by proxy", which in turn was a revival of Typesource.com (or Truetype Resource), Jami's defunct font site.
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A German typography site with pages on classification, news, designers, a type glossary, and tutorials. Run by Ralf Hermann.
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A typography group on Behance with almost 1,000 members, founded by Giovanni Atalmi.
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Typographer.org
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Yves Peters now runs this page, which was originally set up by David Earls.
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Typographias
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Type blog by Hugo Charrao from Olhao, Portugal. In English and Portuguese.
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Typographica
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The official title of Stephen Coles' revival of the Old Typographica is Typographica. Type Reviews, Books, Commentary.
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Visually catching gallery of recent type projects in the graphic design realm.
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Great graphic design news page that features new work on a daily basis. Some of it is typographically interesting. By and for art directors. They say this about themselves: TypoJungle is an inspirational resource focused on typography, graphic design, books, exhibitions, minimalism and modernism, updated several times a day. TypoJungle is maintained by PixelJungle Team, it is a continuously evolving live project that showcases the best in international graphic design, print and typography projects. Subpage on foundries.
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Mail group for typographers.
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Typomancy
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Great blog with commentary on type and type design by Forrest Norvell. Not updated since 2005.
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Messages, announcements, discussions, links, a world web site by and for type designers, Typophile is administrated by Jared Benson, Joe Pemberton, and their firm Punchcut in San Francisco. Typophile's moderators are Jared Benson, Joe Pemberton, Christian Robertson, Stephen Coles, Yves Peters, Paul Hunt, Dan Reynolds, Tamye Riggs (now resigned), Zara Evens, Eben Sorkin, and Tiffany Wardle. Regular censorship, but one of the best, if not the best, home for typographers on the web. Some browsers hang even on the newest version of Typophile (sigh). For example, the UNIX/Mozilla combination is not good for Typophile. For direct access, try these: forums, discussions, critique, Twitter, and news and events. Automated type news collector (stopped in 2009). News. If you are on Mozilla/UNIX, this site is useless--it crashes the browser, it does not allow logins, registration does not work, posting a comment is impossible, pictures are invisible, it is just a major mess.
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German type wiki. Has a German glossary.
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Type site in Birmingham, UK. It has a Type Mine, and UK type events calendar.
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Unifont.org
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A selective guide to Unicode-based fonts and script projects that are ideal for free/libre/open source (FLOSS) operating systems like GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. News about open source font projects. Managed by Ed Trager, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Unión de los tipógrafos
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South American type news and blog, in Spanish. Felipe Cáceres is involved in this.
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Very didactic and insightful Spanish language web site devoted to typography and its history. Pages by freelance graphic designer José Ramón Penela from Madrid. Check Penela's comparison of truetype and postscript.
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News from URW.
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Vendor of Adobe, Alias, Red Rooster, Shinn Type, Letraset Fontek and Device fonts. Shinn Type's Morphica exclusively here. In October 2003, Veer acquired Jason Walcott's Jukebox Type Foundry, and adds it to the Test Pilot Collective Foundry whose faces it also sells exclusively. One of the founding members is Calgary-based type designer Grant Hutchinson. About their Umbrella collection, they write: "Orion is an upright, linear script face by renowned letterform designer Michael Doret, whose work has been commissioned by Nike, Time, and Playboy. Argentinian designers Alejandro Paul and Angel Koziupa present the casual, handwritten Argenta and the energetically sloped Malbeck." In 2004, they added a few faces from Fountain and Font Bureau. New type announcements. In 2007, Veer was bought by Corbis, a Bill Gates company. Typographers predict that Veer will disappear soon.
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Vera Evstafieva's type blog (in Russian).
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A type and typographic picture news site.
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Type and design blog.
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Typoe blog at Mike Cina's YouWorkForThem.
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German type foundry in Hamburg established in 1986 by Veronika Elsner and Günther Flake. 
Another cooperative where one can submit open source fonts. Initial contributors in 2009 are Micah Rich, Caroline Hadilaksono, Haley Fiege, and Andrea Bergamini. The project was started by Micah Rich and Caroline Hadilaksono. Their manifesto: As designers on the web, we have a calling to raise the standards of the web-design world. We're not the only ones who value good design, and it's time for the web world to catch up with it. We understand the challenges that comes with the internet, but with our recent discovery of @font-face, we started getting excited. For those who aren't up to speed, @font-face is a fairly new addition to web styling, letting a designer specify the location of their own font files. Instead of having to design with just a handful of web-friendly fonts, we'll be able to use any typeface we desire. Well, that's our vision, anyway. There are people who design typefaces for a living, and we want them to make money off of something that they do well. This revolution is not a movement against type foundries and type designers; it's quite the opposite. The kind of revolution we want is a change in the way people think about doing business. We want type foundries and typographers to start thinking, "Maybe there's nothing wrong with giving things away sometimes." It's not always about the money, sometimes it's also about making a contribution to the society, in this case, the design community. Giving one typeface away for free will most likely only boost sales, and it's a good deed. We want more people to look at it like that: like they have a responsibility to do something good for their peers. We're not asking type designers and type foundries to sacrifice profit, we're asking them to contribute to a greater cause, to create a community where we not only have a high design standard for print and web alike, but also a community where we're able to share our creations, knowledge, and expertise with our peers and the world. 
Offenbach-based German type collective, est. 2004 by Dan Reynolds, who blogs happily and frequently. Typefaces created by the collective include Argos, AT Stencil, Disco 3000, Ignaz Text, Ignaz Titling, India Gothic, Janus, Jeans, Pater Noster, Proportia, Sweet Pea, Teppic, Used to Love Her. The designers include the founder Dan Reynolds, and his collaborators David Borchers, Lara Glück, Till Hopstock, and Lukas Schneider. Dan Reynolds (b. 1979, USA) grew up in various cities in the USA, received a BFA in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2002, and moved to Offenbach, Germany, in 2003 to study typography with Professor Fritz Friedl. Dan was/is an intern at Linotype. In 2004, he founded Typeoff.de. In 2007 he moved to the University of Reading for graduate studies. His typefaces at TypeOff include Ignaz Text (2004, originally called Ignaz Textura, and based on letters he found on a sepulchral memorial outside of St. Ignaz church in Mainz (Germany)), Ignaz Lombard Caps (2004), Ignaz Titling (2004), Janus (2004, a pixel face), 
Ukrainian designer, b. Kiev, 1957. Graduated from the Senior College for Print and Design in Kiev in 1982, and became art director at Sphera in Kiev. Main type designer at Düsseldorf-based company Unique GmbH since 1998. He designs Armenian, Greek, Georgian, Devanagari, Hebrew, Cyrillic and Arabic fonts. At Elsner and Flake, he published Kiev EF (2002), Lanzug EF (2002, letters as zippers), Rose Deco EF (2001), Rose Garden EF (2001, initial caps ornamented with roses), and Viktors Raven EF (a spectacular caps font with letters made out of a raven). 
