typography question 1515 Responses

Last post: 4 months, 2 weeks ago | Thread started: Jul 10, 08, 7:30 a.m.

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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
  -- 7.34

  Jul 10, 08, 7:30 a.m. – Permalink

• cornflake

  http://www.typeforyou.org/

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 08, 7:34 a.m. – Permalink

• jaylarson

  typofile
  http://www.typophile.com/

  typographica
  http://typographica.org/

  i love typography
  http://ilovetypography.com/

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 08, 7:35 a.m. – Permalink

• jaylarson

  thinking with type
  http://www.papress.com/thinkingw…

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 08, 7:36 a.m. – Permalink

• 7point34

  thanks, guys. appreciated

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 08, 7:38 a.m. – Permalink

• Jaline

  http://www.typeneu.com/

  • +1– jaylarson1/3

    I'm a poster there but I haven't contributed in a while...– Jaline2/3

    actually, I think I left by not posting...– Jaline3/3

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 08, 7:38 a.m. – Permalink

• jaylarson

  the font feed from fontshop:
  http://www.fontshop.com/fontfeed…

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 08, 7:39 a.m. – Permalink

• Jaline

  http://www.designobserver.com/ar…

  • del.iciou.us– jaylarson

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 08, 7:39 a.m. – Permalink

• jaylarson

  http://www.p22.com/terminal/

  http://www.typotheque.com/articl…

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 08, 7:44 a.m. – Permalink

• Jaline

  http://www.stylegala.com/search/…

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 08, 7:48 a.m. – Permalink

• 7point34

  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 them– jaylarson

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 08, 8:03 a.m. – Permalink

• jaylarson

  Font Factory's Glossary
  http://www.fontfactory.com/gloss…

  • ah thanks
    – 7point34

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 08, 8:16 a.m. – Permalink

• kelpie

  this is great if you're starting to get an appreciation of this, especially if you're a webby

  http://www.markboulton.co.uk/art…

  • he annoys me. Not kelpie the other guy.– mistermik1/4

    i am indeed a webby... is there some sort of program? someone hold me.– 7point342/4

    I am right there with you, 7.34– Jaline3/4

    boulton's alright.– jaylarson4/4

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 08, 8:18 a.m. – Permalink

• gramme

  http://www.youworkforthem.com/pr…
  http://www.youworkforthem.com/pr…

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 08, 8:30 a.m. – Permalink

• countrymanlife

  we were talking about this yesterday at work. this film came up...
  http://www.helveticafilm.com/

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 08, 9:40 a.m. – Permalink

• chuparosa

  http://www.typeradio.org

  • available as podcasts too!– jaylarson

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 08, 9:42 a.m. – Permalink