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Welcome to my blog. I document my adventures in travel, style, and food. Hope you have a nice stay!
Welcome to my blog. I document my adventures in travel, style, and food. Hope you have a nice stay!
There are lots of places to find out more about fonts in addition to Proof&Co. Here are some of our favorites that promote quality type and great discourse.
Typographica ☞
Fonts In Use ☞
Type Wolf, from Jeremiah Shouf ☞
Font Review Journal, by Bethany Heck ☞
I Love Typography ☞
Alphabettes ☞
Fresh Fonts, curated by Noemi Stouffer ☞
Type Tasting, by Sarah Hyndman ☞
Friends of Type ☞
Typograph.her ☞
Typeroom.eu ☞
A list of great places to buy, rent, try, and buy independent typefaces these days.
Font Stand ☞
Type Department ☞
Font.world ☞
Future Fonts ☞
Fontshare ☞
There are lots of ways to learn more about typography through workshops, lectures, and classes. But sometimes it’s hard to know where to look to find them. Here are some organizations supplying regular events in all kinds of letter-arts disciplines.
The Lubalin Lecture Series ☞
The Letterform Archive ☞
The TDC ☞
The AIGA ☞
Since the Covid Pandemic began, many conferences have begun publishing their lectures online, and some online-native educational series have sprung up too. Some of these may be timely, but many offer online archives.
Typographics Conference ☞
BIPOC Design History Series ☞
TypeCon ☞
ATypI ☞
Type Weekend ☞
TDC’s Type Drives Communities Conference ☞
Sounds boring, but sometimes a good spreadsheet is too hard to pass up. These are a few databases detailing the type industry even further that are helpful to bookmark.
Although these sites may not be helpful to learning more about independent type, they’re still a great way to be aesthetically exposed to something new or unexpected.
From specimens and catalogs, art books & retrospectives, these are the shops and publishers to get in touch with the printed side of type.
Unit Editions ☞
Standards Manual ☞
Type 01 ☞
Draw Down Books ☞
Taschen ☞
Rizzoli ☞
Gestalten ☞
The type world is always changing and evolving, and these magazines, serials, and issues are aiming to chronicle it all.
Type 01 ☞
Works that Work ☞
SHOE ☞
Ahhh, the way it used to be done. The world of letterpress is alive and well, and ready for you to connect. Here are the places where letterpress not only survives, but thrives:
Hamilton Wood Type ☞
Letterpress Depot ☞
Love type? Why not make it last for (almost) ever? The craft and art of stone carving is still an accessible and beautiful field. Here’s how to connect to it.
Adjacent to the world of typography is a whole other universe of lettering. These are a few places where lettering and calligraphy lives on the internet.
GoodType ☞
In addition to type, letterpress, calligraphy, stone carving, and lettering, there’s sign painting. Get to know a deep well of knowledge and craft form this incredible community.
Big-time media companies have recognized the popularity of fonts and importance it’s had on pop-culture. Here are a few YouTube videos made about type.
Where the “Comic Book Font” Came From — Vox ☞
Why the Wingdings Font Exists — Vox ☞
Why Cooper Black is Everywhere — Vox ☞
Bad Typography Has Ruined More Than The Oscars — Vox ☞
The Font that Escaped the Nazis and landed on the Moon — Vox ☞
The 8-Bit Arcade Font Deconstructed — Vox ☞
A google spreadsheet of known and worthy open-source typefaces compiled by Doug Wilson. Students, bookmark this one.
An incomplete but always growing list of women in type design compiled by Victoria Rushton.
