abc typography : a virtual museum of typography
http://abc.planet-typography.com/
An online museum of typography compiled by Jean-Christophe Loubet del Bayle, this website is dedicated to typefaces and their history. The underlying goal is to convey that each typeface has its own history. The four main sections are, Classical 1480-1980, 20th century, contemporary or modern, and unclassified or miscellaneous. The website is available in English and French.
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AisleOne
http://www.aisleone.net/
AisleOne describes itself as "an inspirational resource focused on graphic design, typography, grid systems, minimalism and modernism". Created by Antonio Carusone, the resource contains a number of featured articles on topics ranging from new fonts available to vintage 1970s logos, to the use of grids in graphic design. Comments and postings are grouped into categories, including Advertising, Design, Events, Films, Motion graphics, Music, Photography and Typography. In addition there are a large number of links to selected websites under the heading Inspiration.
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American Printing History Association
http://www.printinghistory.org/
This is the website of the American History Printing Association (APHA), founded in 1974 to encourage study in the areas of printing history and its related arts and skills. These include calligraphy, typefounding, typography, papermaking, bookbinding, illustration, and publishing. There are now around 700 members worldwide. The website has information about APHA and its regional chapters. There is also information about its scholarly journal 'Printing History', which is published twice a year. Online are some sample articles, contents of recent issues, back issues information and an index for issue numbers 1-30. Recent issues of the APHA Newsletter can also be downloaded in PDF format. There is also an events section and details of an oral history project relating to printers, illustrators and designers.
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Americana fantastica : January 1943
http://www.bibliopolis.net/cote/viewno4.htm
'Americana Fantastica: January 1943' is a Web page that contains an online copy of a famous edition of View magazine. This special edition of View (2nd series, No.4, January 1943) was titled 'Americana Fantastica' and it was designed and edited by the artist Joseph Cornell. The website shows medium-sized scans of all 42 pages, laid out in the correct page order, with links to view larger readable versions of pages. This online copy of View has been made freely available by book dealer François Côté of Canada. The text surrounding the pages is in French, while the magazine is in English. The page also has a link to a scan of the index for the second series of View, via the link titled 'cliquez-là'.
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Ann Hechle : calligraphy as experiment, expression, and vocation
http://www.vads.ac.uk/learning/csc/hechle/essay.html
This website provides an introduction to the work and career of calligrapher Ann Hechle. It is based on the collections held at the Crafts Study Centre, University of the Creative Arts at Farnham, and has been digitised by the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS). Using her notes and drawings, together with examples of commissions, this illustrated learning module takes the reader through her background, influences and key works, and offers an insight into the context and possibilities of contemporary calligraphy.
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Apple Font/Tools Group
http://fonts.apple.com/index.html
This site specialises in TrueType fonts: there is an online TrueType reference manual which is also downloadable, and a section containing information about the quality criteria used in the production of Apple TrueType fonts. Also included are documents describing Apple technologies, and an Apple font tools section containing downloadable tools.
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Association typographique internationale : ATypI
http://www.atypi.org/
This is the website of ATypI, the Association Typographique Internationale, a non-profit international organisation founded in 1957 dedicated to type and typography. The organisation promotes the professional interests of type publishers, graphic and typographic designers and provides a "structure for communication, information and action amongst the international type community". The website includes information about the organisation, upcoming and past ATypI conferences, news related to typography, typeface protection and licensing, and links to relevant Web resources. There is also a members only section and details on becoming an ATypI member.
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baseline
http://www.baselinemagazine.com/
Baseline is a magazine of type and typography. It began life in 1979 as a publication of the Letraset company, principally used as a promotional vehicle for new type designs. Since then it has expanded into an international publication whose aim is to "reflect all aspects of type, including its design, history, use and links to the graphic, art and craft scenes". Now published bi-monthly, the magazine contains mainly new articles, taken from both academic and journalistic sources. The baseline website provides contents, abstracts and cover images for current and previous issues (back to issue no. 30, 2001). There is also information about subscription and advertising. Background about the magazine is provided, including history, philosophy, awards and a full list of contributors. An extensive A-Z listing of digital typefoundries, with links, is also provided by the site.
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British Library : online gallery turning the pages 2.0
http://www.bl.uk/ttp2/ttp1.html
'British Library: Online Gallery Turning the Pages 2.0' is an innovative website/software hybrid that has been created by the British Library and its partners. For users who have fast broadband and Windows Vista, the website offers sixteen online facsimiles of rare books in the British Library collection. The books look and act like the original books in the original bindings and have pages which turn realistically; users can zoom in on fine details or to magnify details using a high-quality 'virtual loupe.' Book titles include: da Vinci's 'Codex Arundel' and 'Codex Leicester'; Charles Dodgson's original bound manuscript of 'Alice's Adventures under Ground'; William Blake's 'Notebook'; the 'Lindisfarne Gospels'; and the 'Sherbourne Missal', among others. Users can also hear the books being read by professional actors. The website is free, and requires registration only for the function that allows individuals to make and keep personal notes about the books. The books can be searched by keyword. The website will also function with Windows XP, but XP users will first need to download and install the free Microsoft .Net Framework v3.0. XP users may also need to specifically give the .Net framework Internet access through a firewall. The website is a good example of the forthcoming range of sophisticated 'browser-delivered software applications.'
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CastleType
http://www.castletype.com/
CastleType is a digital type foundry and this site provides an online collection of over 70 fonts. The typefaces are divided into various categories including classic styles, Goudy type, picture fonts, Cyrillic fonts, and Art Deco, and there is an alphabetical listing. Samples of each typeface are given, and a gallery section contains examples of Castle typefaces used in various magazines, book jackets, etc. Links to other type foundries are also given.
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Club Type
http://www.clubtype.co.uk/
This website contains the typographic design of Club Type, and is divided into a number of main sections. The 'Fonts' section contains typeface families, designed by Adrian Williams, in popular font format available as specimens for viewing and printing. Also included is the 'Sassoon' font, which is educational and used for early reading, writing, special needs and multimedia. The 'Design Services' section contains a few examples of corporate identity typefaces and logos, as well as website designs. The current client list can be found in the 'Portfolio' section. The website also has a product news section and free trial downloads.
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Colophon : international magazine symposium
http://www.colophon2007.com/
Colophon is the website of a three-day international magazine symposium held in Luxembourg in March 2007. The website contains details of the symposium, full-text copies of the 16 pre-event newsletters, extensive photography galleries, and details of the accompanying 400-page print book 'We Love Magazines' (Die Gestalten Verlag, 2007). Visitors can also find a professional 13-minute English-language video report on the event, via the links in Newsletter 16. The Colophon website has a detailed online database of over 1300 small and specialist magazines, which can be sorted and searched in a wide variety of ways. Colophon is supported by European Capital of Culture funding, and by a variety of partners. The Colophon organisers state that they will publish a new print 'Colophon Magazine' from Autumn 2007 onwards. The website makes extensive use of pop-ups, so any pop-up blockers must be disabled before use.
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Cooltext.com : graphics generator
http://cooltext.com/
This website lets you create and customise logos and buttons. The service is free and the graphics can be used in websites and elsewhere. Design, style, font, font size, colours, and other specifications are chosen and then the site generates a customised graphic, which can be downloaded. There are no copyright restrictions attached to the graphics generator or the radio buttons. A large selection of fonts are also available for downloading, but these are mostly shareware products.
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Cooper Union School of Art : exhibition archive
http://www.cooper.edu/art/exhib_archive.html
Published by the School of Art at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, based in New York, the website provides information about current exhibitions mainly at the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Art and Design and the Houghton Gallery in the Foundation Building. There is an exhibition archive (including extracts from a book about blackletter type).
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Covers
http://covers.fwis.com/
'Covers' is a website by Ben Pieratt, showcasing the best examples of book-jacket design. It is presented in a weblog-like format, with some of the postings forming long interviews and commentary. As of July 2007 there are 60 examples of fine cover design and typography. The examples of book covers have notes that give the name of the designer and/or illustrator (as a hyperlink that searches for other examples of their work), the author and title, and the publisher and publication date. The website can be searched by keyword or phrase. Visitors are able to leave comments on most interior pages, and the website appears to be well-policed for comment spam. An RSS newsfeed is available.
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Creative behavior
http://www.creativebehavior.com/
Creative Behavior is a full text online design magazine that provides design information for new media designers, graphic designers and creatives. It is published bimonthly and based in Indonesia. Each issue has articles, interviews, and a section on typography. There is an 'events' section and an archive of past issues.
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Cylopedia of puzzles
http://www.mathpuzzle.com/loyd/
'The Cylopedia of Puzzles' is a Web page that reproduces in facsimile the 1914 book "Sam Loyd's Cyclopedia of 5000 Puzzles, Tricks, and Conundrums (With Answers)" (Lamb Publishing, New York). Every page of the book features illustrations and cartoons, and hand-drawn typography. Page images are cleanly scanned, and are presented at a readable size. The entire book can be viewed online or downloaded as a 40Mb Windows ZIP file. Not all pages feature classic puzzles, some are simply observations on puzzling phenomena. The book may be useful for those researching the fashions, pastimes and cultural attitudes of the years immediately before the First World War. Since the book is now in the public domain, it may also serve as a rich mine of free period illustrations.
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Designing with type
http://www.designingwithtype.com/home.html
Originally created by James Craig, from Cooper Union, New York, as a supplement to his textbook Designing with type: a basic course in typography, this website now includes projects and contributions made by educators, students and designers worldwide. The site consists of sections on the following areas: projects; typefaces; resources, which includes books, journals, organisations and websites; and an open forum of essays, quotations and items of interest. The 'projects' section presents typographic assignments from a list of universities and designers. Images of the completed assignments are also shown.
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DesktopPublishing.com
http://www.desktoppublishing.com/
This resource contains a number of categories, each with numerous links to relevant websites. The categories cover a wide range of subjects including general art, graphics, website backgrounds (including sections on tips, utilities, and sources), icons, clip art, Web design, and fonts (including sections on foundries, utilities, shareware and freeware fonts). There are also a features section, a reviews section, a bookstore section covering books on desktop publishing, and press releases.
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Edward Clark collection
http://staff.napier.ac.uk/Services/Library/Information/Special+Collections/
This is the website for the Edward Clark Collection. Housed in Napier University Library, the Edward Clark Collection encompasses some 5,000 items illustrating the development of the book from the 15th century, concentrating particularly on the development of typography, printing illustration, and fine binding. The website has a comprehensive introduction to the collection, which is searchable through the librarys online catalogue.
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El Lissitzky, 1890-1941
http://www.eldritchpress.org/el/el.html
Created by Eric Eldred and published by Eldritch Press, this website is devoted to the Russian avant-garde artist El Lissitzky and the Suprematist movement. It features images of his work, including posters, photographs, paintings, book designs and typography. The site also features Suprematist works by Kasimir Malevich and other Suprematist artists.
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Elements of typographic style assigned to the web
http://webtypography.net/
This website by Richard Rutter, a Brighton-based Web designer, is an attempt to apply the principles of Robert Bringhursts book, The Elements of Typographic Style, to Web design. The website is described as a work in progress, with Rutter taking each of Bringhursts principles at a time and making them relevant to Web authoring, and excluding parts of the original book that appear irrelevant. Viewers can sign up to an RSS feed to be alerted to new content as it is added. The website also includes a bibliography, with links to purchase the original book and other related publications, links to relevant websites, tutorials, utilities, blogs and W3C specifications.
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Emigre
http://www.emigre.com/
Emigre is a digital type foundry, publisher and distributor of graphic design related software and printed materials in California, USA. Its website hosts an electronic version of the Emigre product catalogue and there is a facility to order products. Information about new releases and special offers is also available. An artist index lists names of artists whose work has featured in Emigre publications and a bibliography lists all Emigre publications. Contents details for past issues of the journal titled 'Emigre' are also available.
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Eric Gill society
http://www.ericgill.org.uk/
This is the website of the Eric Gill Society, a resource for those interested in the work and history of artist and sculptor Eric Gill and the Guild of St. Joseph, founded in Ditchling, Sussex. The Society is in the process of being formed, and details of its aims and objectives are provided on the website. After initially training as an architect, Eric Gill studied stone masonry and calligraphy, eventually becoming a calligrapher, letter-cutter and monumental mason. The website provides a detailed biography of Gill, his life and work, and also the Guild of St. Joseph. Other features include a section showcasing photographs of Gill's work, including sculpture, drawings and typography, a discussion forum, a news section, and a section devoted to related web links, including links to museums and galleries housing significant collections of his work.
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Everson typography
http://www.evertype.com/
This site contains information about typography and fonts designed Michael Everson, including CeltScript, which provides reproductions of Gaelic fonts, and Everson Mono, a monowidth font. The site also contains information about celtic keyboard layouts, celtic font history and about Ogham, an ancient script of ireland, and Inuktitut, a syllabic font. A typography/scripts bibliography and details of books and software by Everson are also provided. Both English and Gaelic language versions are available.
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