Books about typefaces

and

Links to typeface resources on the Internet

by Little typeface primer

• Phil Baines, Andrew Haslam: Type & Typography.

  192 pages - Watson-Guptill 2002, € 27,50



• Robert Bringhurst: The Elements of Typographic Style.

  320 pages - Hartley & Marks Publishers 1997, € 27,50



• Alexander Lawson: Anatomy of a Typeface.

  432 pages - David R. Godine 1994, € 22,90



• James Felici: The Complete Manual of Typography.

  384 pages - Adobe Press 2002, € 41,50



• Walter Tracy: Letters of Credit: A View of Type Design.

  224 pages - David R. Godine 2003, € 18,50



• Bruce Rogers: The Centaur Types.

  69 pages - Purdue University Press 1996, € 20,00



• Philip Meggs, Rob Carter: Typographic Specimens: The Great Typefaces.

  416 pages - John Wiley & Sons 1993, € 41,50



• Sean Cavanaugh: Type Design.

  Midas 2002



• Cyrus D. Khazaeli: Crashkurs Typo und Layout.

  480 pages - Rowohlt 2004, € 14,90



• Marvin Bryan: Digital Typography Sourcebook.

  384 pages - John Wiley & Sons 1996, ca 34 €



• Roger C. Parker: Looking Good in Print. (Deutsch)

  350 pages - Midas Computer Verlag 2002, € 34,80



• Roger C. Parker: Looking Good in Print, Fifth Edition. (English)

  320 pages - Paraglyph Press 2003, € 27,50

Recognising typefaces

• A Field Guide to the Faces
  "This Field Guide attempts to apply the principles of botanical taxonomy to the problem of typeface recognition."

  classification of types

  WhatTheFont

  Here you can upload your scan of a font that you may wonder what it is...

Typesetting knowledge

• typographie
• Overview of European Diacritics
  by John Hudson

  Central European Accents Overview

Magazines

• Planet Typography

Font downloads

• Free font archives
  a commented list of links to font archives

Type Foundries

• URW
• AGFA Monotype
• International Typeface Corporation
• HOEFLER & FRERE-JONES
• TIRO TYPEWORKS
• Scriptorium
  decorative fonts

Font shops

• FontShop
• Font Pool
  they point you to the place where you can get your desired font for a moderate price, e.g. you can search for Optima and are presented an offer of the Optima family (18 fonts) at $21

  Graphic Design link lists

  Commercial Fonts and other links

  Phil's Fonts

Technical information

• TrueType and Type 1 fonts
  about technical properties of their outline and hint formats

  The comp.fonts FAQ

  issues collected from the newsgroup comp.fonts

Tools, font software

• FontForge
  font outline editor (Windows, Unix, VMS) (formerly pfaedit)

  FontLab/TypeTool

  font editing/design applications (Windows, Mac)

  typetools, t1utils

  command line tools for font transformation and multiple-master font generation

  Typograf

  font management tool (Windows)