I am always on the hunt for new, inspiring and typography-related resources. Below are 35+ organized resources, inspiration, educational sites and more that relate in some shape and form to typography.
Feel free to dig through the typographic “tool shed” of resources below:
RESOURCES
Typedia is a community website to classify typefaces and educate people about them. Think of it like a mix between IMDb and Wikipedia, but just for type. Anyone can join, add, and edit pages for typefaces or for the people behind the type.
Typography and Font Mega Toolbox
Typography tools
Typography aggregation from various resources around the web
A new and amazing type-based aggregation site from the people over at I Love Typography. Also, my new homepage :)
INSPIRATION
High quality fonts and custom type design
Typographic research
HAND-DRAWN AND FOUND TYPE INSPIRATION
WPA Posters and hand-drawn vintage lettering
A beautiful arrangement of notes taken at SXSW… have to love designer’s sketchbooks and notebooks. Words are pictures.
A fun little iPhone web app that allows you to tag and search letters from the community and make words out of found lettering.
EDUCATIONAL AND INFORMATIONAL
Radio station and talks related to typography and other design related issues.
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web address how to improve web typography, including rhythm, proportion, measure, and much more.
Type design philosophy
Typography workshop with a listed of type-basics and references.
A must-see… that’s all I’m saying. :)
A nice collection of font pairing for partnering serifs and sans.
BLOGS
An extensive 96 Typography Blogs list. I was going to list them here but instead I’ll listed the ones that were not covered via the above resource below.
A beautiful letterpress blog that showcases beautiful typography and design.
COLLECTIONS
42 Amazing Resources for Inspirational Typography
Typography in advertising design
Typography based design blog inspiration
MISCELLANEOUS
An aggregation of awesome typography-based t-shirts.
A tweet aggregation that collects tweets that have anything to do with typography, fonts, lettering, etc. Very cool and useful.
An interesting concept where you can combine parts of letters to form shapes and art.
Great collection Thanks.
Nice collection, thanks for sharing it
Good stuff, Brian; I love type inspirationals.
Wow, so many super sites, thanks :)
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awesome compilation and thanks for including tripwire magazine!
How could you NOT include ilovetypography.com in this list?
Michael,
I love typography was included among the first resources under blogs. That link had all the great typography blogs so I left it to them to gather that one up ;)
Wow, excellent collection, will definitely bookmark for the future.
Very nice collection. Another source for inspiration (disclosure: this is my own site) is TypeInspire.
Can we have more CSS Typography examples?
wow awesome list of resources. i will bookmark this for sure…..
another awesome quality resource for fonts is http://www.pilo.me – it is a typography forum that is private and by moderation approval only, but if you can get in, it can provide you with about any font youd ever want. i know alejandro paul, house industries, canada type, font shop and others call themselves members. anyhow check it out if you can.
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Thanks for the great list. Another resource I’ve found invaluable is “What the font” from MyFonts, where you can identify a font by uploading a scan or graphic. http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
Great and useful article. Thanks for sharing
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