Monday Favorites: Typography Resources

Welcome to Monday Favorites, a quasi-regular feature to help you make the transition from weekend to work, because nobody but the boss likes Monday.

Today's favorite: typography

The following is a list of all kinds of typography-related resources. There's a metric ton of font related stuff on the web, but here are some of the best.

Type Blogs

I Love Typography - Yes he does! John Boardley is a British designer and writer living in Japan. ILT is about fonts, typefaces and all things typographical. It features excellent articles, great writing and lovely type. Also, look for his Twitter handle below.

The Ministry of Type - I really love this one! It's published by Aegir Hallmundur, a British designer, and is about type, typography, lettering, calligraphy and other related things that inspire him. He does an awesome job putting out interesting and beautiful posts on a regular basis.

Spiekerblog - The personal blog of Eric Spiekermann. Eric is one of type and design's heavy hitters and he always speaks his mind. His blog on type is a great read.

Info Resources

The Cary Collection - This is one of the country's premier resources on anything to do with the history of printing. Housed at the Rochester Institute of Technology, it has rich resources on book design, type design, printing and publishing. If you need to do research the folks at the Cary Collection want to help.

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web - A great resource on how to apply the elements of ... well, I think you get it. Not a sexy site, but it goes deep with info.

Typophile - Typophile is an awesome resource for anyone interested in type. They have a really active type forum, a type ID board, book reviews, type design tutorials and a whole lot more.

Type Foundries

House Industries - A type and design institution, the boys at House take hip to a whole other level.

P22 - P22 is a foundry based in Buffalo NY that specializes in art, historic and science related fonts. Owner Rich Kegler is a great guy and their work is really nice.

On-Line Stores

My Fonts - Buy any kind of font from foundries and individual type designers the world over. Probably the biggest on-line type store.

Font Shop - Herr Spiekermann's on-line type store. FontShop is the original independent retailer of digital type. They offer more than 100,000 fonts.

Veer - type, illustrations, photos and merch. All with a dash of design swagger for good measure.

Miscellaneous

TypeKit - A very exciting new tech that let's designers use real typography on web sites rather than be limited to standard browser fonts.

Society of Typographic Aficionados {SoTA} - The name says it all. If you're a typographer, foundry or just a type geek, this is the association for you.

Type Tweeps

@martinmajoor - Type rock star and designer of Scala & Scala Sans
@typegirl - Tiffany Wardle, West Coast type designer and teacher
@BaldCondensed - Yves Peters
@ministryoftype - Ministry of Type blog
@rkegler - Rich Kegler, owner of the P22 foundry and fellow Upstate NY'er
@exlibris - Jos Buivenga
@JanMiddendorp - Jan Middendorp, designer
@ilovetypography - I Love Typography blog
@espiekermann - Eric Spiekermann

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