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**Digital Typography Course - Type is one of the most important media for communicating — still. It has evolved. It has been revolutionized. And the mastery of it has been perfected, but also ignored. By understanding what happened through the 1990s and why it happened, you'll gain a much better ground for working with type. We start in the 1980s where a technical revolution created the basis for new expression in the typographic language and move onto the bits, bytes and Beziérs of digital fonts, font utilities and tools for designing fonts.
  • Choosing & Using Type Type. In your lifetime you've seen billions of letters and millions of words, yet you might never have consciously noticed the typefaces you read.

  • EsperFonto There are two keys to finding the most appropriate typeface - Find out what they are

  • The Font Site - Digital typography and design.

  • Many Great Misc Tips - Painter, Photoshop, Xara, Corel, and PaintshopPro - Including Tips on manipulation of text

  • Monthly tips and resource suggestions. It is when you neglect to double-check your document, that you are most likely to receive that annoying phone call from the service bureau informing you that your document is asking for fonts which have not been provided, and which they do not have on file. Here are a few things you can do in order to avoid receiving that call:

  • No More GIF Text! Let's join a conversation at the moment designer meets engineer. 

  • Point Central Huge selection of free fonts for Mac or PC plus a lot of information about Typography

  • Rules of Typography - Part 1 The Rules of Typography are
    reprinted from the book “Digital Type Design Guide” by Sean Cavanaugh (Hayden Books).

  • Taming Wild Words - words as art

  • Typesetter tips tips changed monthly

  • Type Palettes Is the primary purpose of document design aesthetic? To my way of thinking--no.

  • Type Review - The latest word on type.

  • Typefaces That Work Together One of the most often asked questions about type is: Which faces work well together?  

  • Typesetter Tips  Typographic  design and font production

  • Typeface design, corporate identity and custom fonts. This glossary of terms associated with the typesetting and printing industries was put together as a series of articles in a newsletter called ``Desktop Publisher'' 

  • TypoFile - Spec Sheets, Web Fonts, Techniques and technology

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