Typography Sites and Articles

By Judy Vorfeld

WEBSITES

Wikipedia says that typog­ra­phy is the art and tech­nique of arrang­ing type in order to make lan­guage vis­i­ble. The arrange­ment of type involves the selec­tion of type­faces, point size, line length, lead­ing (line spac­ing), adjust­ing the spaces between groups of let­ters (track­ing) and adjust­ing the space between pairs of let­ters (kerning).

At dif­fer­ent times in our cul­ture, a select few had hands on regard­ing typog­ra­phy, but when com­put­ers came along, text typog­ra­phy (at the least) became avail­able for almost every­one. In a sense, we can print with type. We can cre­ate. We can use our imag­i­na­tions. We can take soft­ware like WordPress, which I’m using on this site, and be creative.

Following are a few of the sites that talk about the many faces of typography.

• A Disagreeably Facetious Type Glossary


• Ascender Fonts


• The Best Choices for Web Fonts


• Bulleted Lists: Capitalization and Punctuation


• Daniel Will-Harris Esperfonto


• Fonts


• The Fontpool


• Jack Yan & Associates


• Lettering


• Linguist’s Software: Fonts for the World


• Microsoft Typography


• Paper and Non-Canvas Supports — Resources for Artists


• Phil’s Fonts


• Sources of Language Fonts on the Internet


• Stedt Font for the Macintosh


• Typewriter Fonts


• Typography: Joe Gillespie


• Typography for Lawyers

ARTICLES

• One Versus Two Spaces After a Period
  


• Use of White Space in Layout and Design


• Web Type 101


• The Web Style Guide