typography question
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- 7point34
if anybody on here can point me in the direction of good online resources: articles, pages, sites
just looking to expand my knowledge a bit. bored at work. attempting to be productive today.
resources on history of type, theory, practice, etc.
anything would be appreciated. i know nothing about type.
thanks
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- jaylarson0
typofile
http://www.typophile.com/typographica
http://typographica.org/i love typography
http://ilovetypography.com/
- jaylarson0
thinking with type
http://www.papress.com/thinkingw…
- 7point340
thanks, guys. appreciated
- jaylarson0
the font feed from fontshop:
http://www.fontshop.com/fontfeed…
- 7point340
is there a good resource of glossary terms on any of these?
i have no idea what things like "slab," "roman" mean.
i also just read something about clarendon being "egyptian?"lost...
- thinking with type:
http://www.papress.c…
great book too. visualizes graphical terms vs defines themjaylarson
- thinking with type:
- jaylarson0
Font Factory's Glossary
http://www.fontfactory.com/gloss…
- kelpie0
this is great if you're starting to get an appreciation of this, especially if you're a webby
- countrymanlife0
we were talking about this yesterday at work. this film came up...
http://www.helveticafilm.com/