Resources.
Click through this curated collection of typography links.
Updated July 2017
pairing tools & inspiration
anatomy
online reference
- AIGA’s “The Digital Past: When Typefaces Were Experimental” by Paul Shaw
- “Best Practices of Combining Typefaces” by Douglas Bonneville for Smashing Magazine
- “Butterick’s Practical Typography” by Matthew Butterick
- “Calligraphic Tendencies in the Development of Sanserif Types in the Twentieth Century” by Keith Tam
- FontShop FontLists
- “Four Techniques for Combining Typefaces” by Hoefler & Co.
- Identifont
- I Love Typography
- Linotype’s Font Magazine
- “How to Use Clashing Fonts” by Hoefler & Co.
- “Marrying Types: All in the Family” by James Felici for CreativePro.com
- “Marrying Types: Five-Part Harmony” by James Felici for CreativePro.com
- “Marrying Types: Sans on Sans” by James Felici for CreativePro.com
- Paul Shaw Letter Design Articles
- The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
- “The ‘Revival’ of Slab-serif Typefaces in the Twentieth Century” by Keith Tam
- “The Value of Multi-Typeface Design” by Bethany Heck
- Thinking with Type
- “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface” by Michael Bierut
- Typedia
- Typekit Blog
- Type for You
- Type Token
- Typographica
- WhatTheFont
blogs
books & magazines
- 8 Faces
- Adrian Frutiger Typefaces: The Complete Works edited by Heidrun Osterer and Philipp Stamm
- Anatomy of a Typeface by Alexander S. Lawson
- Codex: The Journal of Typography
- Communication Arts, specifically Jonathan Hoefler’s “Editing Hands-On: Pairing Serifs and Sans Serifs” (May 2006)
- Detail in Typography by Jost Hochuli
- Fonts in Focus by Linotype/Monotype/ITC
- Gratuitous Type
- Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield
- On Web Typography by Jason Santa Maria
- Printing Types, Their History, Forms, and Use: A Study in Survivals, Vol. 1 by Daniel Berkeley Updike
- Printing Types, Their History, Forms, and Use: A Study in Survivals, Vol. 2 by Daniel Berkeley Updike
- Slanted
- Texts on Type: Critical Writings on Typography edited by Steven Heller and Philip B. Meggs
- Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton
- The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
- Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, Vol. 1 by Jan Tholenaar, edited by Cees De Jong
- Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, Vol. 2 by Alston W. Purvis, edited by Cees De Jong
- Type on Screen: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Developers, and Students edited by Ellen Lupton
- Typeface: Classic Typography for Contemporary Design by Tamye Riggs
- Type: The Secret History of Letters by Simon Loxley