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...

Typographic knowledge

• The Anatomy of Typography

Magazines

• Planet Typography

Type Foundries

• URW
• fonts.com (formerly AGFA Monotype, also redirects from ITC fonts)
• Linotype
• Monotype
• Hoefler&Co.
• TIRO TYPEWORKS
• Scriptorium
  decorative fonts

Font shops

• FontShop
• The Font Pool
• Phil's Fonts
• Graphic Design link lists

Technical information

• TrueType and Type 1 fonts
  about technical properties of their outline and hint formats
• TrueType & PostScript Type 1: What's the Difference?
  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) (very formerly pfaedit)
• TypeTool
• FontLab Studio
• typetools, t1utils
  command line tools for font transformation and multiple-master font generation
• Typograf
  font management tool (Windows)