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Typography links

There are many fantastic web resources and blogs on typography. Here is a sample:

The Font Bureau Another great blog created by Boston-based design from The Font Bureau. Excellent font samples, design strategies, and news for graphic designers.
Hoefler & Frere-Jones An influential type foundry in New York City founded by innovative designers Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones. Excellent source for for font samples, discussion of trends, and pure inspiration.
I love Typography Beautiful blog created by British designer John Boardley with focus on typography and font design.
A Legacy in Letters with Erik Spiekermann
Mixing Media Cyla Costa shares how she discovered lettering, and how she works across everything from book covers to sprawling murals.
The National Archives
On A Type Journey Andrea Leksen discusses her jump from graphic design to type design and how she tries to pay it forward as an educator.
Typographica Typographica provides a source where current typefaces and books are reviewed and discussed. Commentary forums on various issues within typography are also included, bringing editorial content on current trends and issues in typography into the forum.
Typographic Posters
Understanding typography

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Dedicated to typography and its history. Learn about the anatomy, classification categories, a short listing of hotmetal (type that works in multimedia), and an interactive timeline that takes you from 15,000 BC to the present. This timeline highlights some of the important events in mark making that have changed the way we communicate with each other--cross-referenced with world events to guide you as you travel through time. A glossary is also provided.

Typography - Fonts

Fonts and the Law
Whether you use fonts as a graphic or web designer, or are perhaps starting to make fonts, understanding the legal issues around them is important. What are font lawsuits about, what legal protections do fonts have and how does it affect you—whether you use fonts or make them?

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Fonts and the Law

Fonts and the Law
Erik Speakermann Erik Spiekermann is information architect, type designer and author. Two of his typefaces, FF Meta and ITC Officina, are considered to be modern classics. He founded MetaDesign (1979) and FontShop (1988). He is behind the design of well-know brands such as Audi, Bosch, VW, German Railways and Heidelberg Printing, among others; information systems for Berlin Transit and Düsseldorf Airport and for publications like The Economist. He designed exclusive typefaces for corporations like Deutsche Bahn, Bosch, ZDF (German TV), Cisco, Mozilla and many others. DLD (Digital-Life-Design) is a global network on innovation, digitization, science and culture which connects business, creative and social leaders, opinion-formers and influencers for crossover conversation and inspiration.

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Gestalten After decades of accolades, he moved away from the digital world. He says, “we practice post-digital printing. Our motto is ‘Preservation through Production.’ We certainly are not Luddites.” As one of the last masters of analog design, he is using his life experiences to nurture the next generation and preserve the craft. “I want the design to make things easy to use as well as beautiful to behold,” he recently said. At the beginning of 2014, Spiekermann installed his printing press in a beautiful white room in a former girls’ art school in the back courtyard of a house in Berlin’s Potsdamer Straße, directly opposite Edenspiekermann, which he stepped down from the year before. It is called Galerie P98a after its street and house number. In 2019, next door to the printing press, Spiekermann joined forces with a selection of Berlin-based publishers and platforms to open Analog on Potsdamer Straße 100. The concept store, which gestalten is a partner in, is a hub for everything related to typography, design, photography, and art.
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Graphic Design & Digital Media guide: Typography

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