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TYPE DESIGN, TYPOGRAPHY, TYPEFACES AND FONTS: These pages were permanently closed on May 6, 2022. An encyclopedic treatment of type design, typefaces and fonts. This site is also known as on snot and fonts. Full length pages. Index pages.







Learning and reading
about type design

⦿ Bezier curves ⦿ Blogs ⦿ Books on type ⦿ Choice of fonts ⦿ Conferences ⦿ Past conferences ⦿ Typefaces for dyslexics ⦿ Font names/aliases ⦿ Font search engines ⦿ Glossaries ⦿ Latest links ⦿ Legal stuff ⦿ Lists of type designers ⦿ Musea ⦿ Newsgroups ⦿ Readability & Legibility ⦿ Studying type design ⦿ Type classification ⦿ Type competitions ⦿ Past type competitions ⦿ Type designers (short) ⦿ Type designers (long) ⦿ Type examples ⦿ Type for TV ⦿ Type magazines ⦿ Type measurements ⦿ Type personalities ⦿ Type news ⦿ Typography

Commercial fonts

⦿ Commercial fonts ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Corporate typefaces ⦿ FontShop designers ⦿ Font vendors ⦿ MyFonts ⦿ MyFonts Pages (local) ⦿ Monotype designers ⦿ Monotype foundries ⦿ MyFonts designers

Best-of-the-year lists

⦿ Best of 2013 ⦿ Best of 2014 ⦿ Best of 2015 ⦿ Best of 2016 ⦿ Best of 2017 ⦿ Best of 2018 ⦿ Best of 2019 ⦿ Best of 2020 ⦿ Best of 2021

Freeware/shareware fonts

⦿ Font centers ⦿ Font hosting ⦿ Open source fonts ⦿ Original designs (many free fonts) ⦿ Original designs (a few free fonts) ⦿ Regular as clockwork ⦿ Manfred Klein

Hyperactive designers

⦿ Morris Fuller Benton ⦿ Nick Curtis ⦿ Patrick Griffin (unfinished) ⦿ Eric Gill ⦿ Frederic Goudy ⦿ Jeff Levine ⦿ Manfred Klein ⦿ Dick Pape ⦿ Alejandro Paul (unfinished) ⦿ Dan X. Solo ⦿ Dieter Steffmann

Handwriting

⦿ Architectural lettering ⦿ Brush ⦿ Calligraphy ⦿ Chancery / cancellaresca ⦿ Carolingian ⦿ Children's handwriting fonts ⦿ Civilité ⦿ Comic/cartoon fonts ⦿ Curly typefaces ⦿ Designers of hand-printed fonts ⦿ Didactic fonts for children ⦿ Dry brush ⦿ Fontcapture fonts ⦿ Fontifier fonts ⦿ Graffiti fonts ⦿ Handwriting fonts ⦿ Handwriting font archives ⦿ iFontMaker ⦿ Penmanship ⦿ Randomized fonts ⦿ School fonts ⦿ Signature/logo fonts ⦿ Signage fonts ⦿ Sketched typefaces ⦿ Treefrog types ⦿ Watercolor brush ⦿ Wild calligraphy

Art periods

⦿ Art deco ⦿ Art nouveau ⦿ Arts and Crafts movement ⦿ Avant-garde ⦿ Bauhaus ⦿ Die Brücke ⦿ Brutalism ⦿ Carolingian ⦿ Constructivism ⦿ Cubism ⦿ Dadaism ⦿ De Stijl ⦿ Edwardian ⦿ Futurismo ⦿ German expressionism ⦿ Lombardic ⦿ Memphis Design Group ⦿ Nihilism ⦿ Op-art ⦿ Pop art ⦿ Psychedelic types ⦿ Victorian

Famous type styles

⦿ Akzidenz Grotesk ⦿ Baskerville ⦿ Bembo [Aldine roman] ⦿ Bookman ⦿ Caslon ⦿ Caxton ⦿ Cheltenham ⦿ Clarendon ⦿ Cooper Black ⦿ Courier ⦿ DIN ⦿ Elzevir ⦿ Fournier ⦿ Garalde [Garamond, Sabon, etc.] ⦿ Miklos Totfalusi Kis [Janson] ⦿ Modern [Bodoni, Didot, etc.] ⦿ Romain du roi ⦿ Scotch Roman ⦿ Venetian [Centaur, Jenson, etc.]

Specialized fonts

⦿ 3D fonts ⦿ Alchemy ⦿ Anthroposophy ⦿ Arrows ⦿ Astrology ⦿ Athletic lettering ⦿ AutoCAD fonts ⦿ Barcode fonts ⦿ Bastarda (bâtarde, Schwabacher) ⦿ Beatnik style ⦿ Bike-themed fonts ⦿ Blackboard type ⦿ Blackletter fonts ⦿ Braille fonts ⦿ Bubblegum typefaces ⦿ Chalk fonts ⦿ Chess fonts ⦿ Chiseled fonts ⦿ Christmas / Season's fonts ⦿ Circles ⦿ Circuit fonts ⦿ Circus fonts ⦿ Codex ⦿ Connect-the-dots fonts ⦿ Copperplate ⦿ Crayons ⦿ Cutout typefaces ⦿ Dali ⦿ Deseret ⦿ Dingbats (original) ⦿ Dystopian fonts ⦿ Easter fonts ⦿ Erotic fonts ⦿ Escher ⦿ The Euro symbol ⦿ Experimental type ⦿ Fashion mag typefaces ⦿ Film noir fonts ⦿ Fingerprint fonts ⦿ Fists, pointing hands ⦿ Floriated caps ⦿ Futurism ⦿ Gaspipe fonts ⦿ Geometric solid ⦿ Giacometti ⦿ Glaz krak fonts ⦿ Glitch fonts ⦿ Hacker fonts ⦿ Hairline: very thin sans faces ⦿ Hexagonal typefaces ⦿ Hipster fonts ⦿ Horror fonts ⦿ Icon fonts ⦿ Intestinal typefaces ⦿ Kafkaesque typefaces ⦿ Kandinsky ⦿ Kitchen tile fonts ⦿ Klee ⦿ Knitting ⦿ Labyrinthine fonts ⦿ Lapidary fonts ⦿ LED/LCD fonts ⦿ Letterpress ⦿ Linocut ⦿ Malachim ⦿ Map/travel/highway typefaces ⦿ Mathematics fonts ⦿ MICR fonts ⦿ Military ⦿ Miro ⦿ Molecular typefaces ⦿ Monoline script typefaces ⦿ Monospaced fonts ⦿ Morse fonts ⦿ Mosaic fonts ⦿ Movie fonts ⦿ Music fonts ⦿ Neon ⦿ Neurotic fonts ⦿ OCR fonts ⦿ Octagonal typefaces ⦿ Origami ⦿ Ornamental caps ⦿ Orphaned typefaces ⦿ Oscar Niemeyer ⦿ Palm pilot fonts ⦿ Paperclip faces ⦿ Peace fonts ⦿ Petroglyphs ⦿ Phonetic (IPA) fonts ⦿ Piano key faces ⦿ Picasso ⦿ Pixel fonts ⦿ Playing card fonts ⦿ Pokemon fonts ⦿ Polygonal typefaces ⦿ Potato cut fonts ⦿ Prismatic typefaces ⦿ Programming fonts ⦿ Radio fonts ⦿ Randomized fonts ⦿ Ransom note fonts ⦿ Religious symbols ⦿ Rhombic typefaces ⦿ Ronde ⦿ Rope fonts ⦿ Rotunda (Rundgotisch) ⦿ Rundgotisch (rotunda) ⦿ Runes ⦿ Rupee symbol ⦿ Scanbats ⦿ Schiele ⦿ Schwabacher (bastarda) ⦿ Science fiction fonts ⦿ Scrabble fonts ⦿ Shavian ⦿ sIFR ⦿ Sign language ⦿ Signage ⦿ Silent movie fonts ⦿ Simulated Arabic ⦿ Simulated Cuneiform ⦿ Simulated Cyrillic ⦿ Simulated Greek ⦿ Simulated Hebrew ⦿ Simulated Indic ⦿ Simulated Mexican ⦿ Simulated oriental fonts ⦿ Simulated rune fonts ⦿ Skyline fonts ⦿ Smileys ⦿ Snowflakes ⦿ Soccer fonts ⦿ Star Wars fonts ⦿ Steampunk ⦿ Stencil fonts ⦿ Stitching ⦿ Stone age fonts ⦿ SVG fonts ⦿ Tangram ⦿ Tape fonts ⦿ Tattoo fonts ⦿ Tear drop terminals ⦿ Telephone directory fonts ⦿ Textured typefaces ⦿ Textura ⦿ Tiki ⦿ Trajan ⦿ Triangulated fonts ⦿ Trump ⦿ Tuscan ⦿ Typewriter fonts ⦿ Uncial ⦿ Unicase ⦿ Valentine's Day fonts ⦿ Western fonts ⦿ Wooden plank fonts

Type scenes by country

Africa: ⦿ Africa ⦿ Berber ⦿ Coptic ⦿ Egypt ⦿ Hieroglyphics ⦿ Mauritius ⦿ Morocco ⦿ Other ⦿ South-Africa ⦿ Tunisia

Oceania: ⦿ Australia ⦿ Maori ⦿ New Caledonia ⦿ New Zealand ⦿ Rongo Rongo

Europe + the old USSR: ⦿ Albania ⦿ Austria ⦿ Basque ⦿ Belarus ⦿ Belgium ⦿ Bosnia ⦿ Bulgaria ⦿ Catalunya ⦿ Celtic/Gaelic ⦿ Croatia ⦿ Cyprus ⦿ Cyrillic ⦿ Czechia ⦿ Denmark ⦿ Eastern European ⦿ Esperanto ⦿ Estonia ⦿ Finland ⦿ France ⦿ Georgian ⦿ Germany ⦿ Greece ⦿ Greek ⦿ Hungary ⦿ Iceland ⦿ Ireland ⦿ Italy ⦿ Kazakhstan ⦿ Kosovo ⦿ Kyrgyzstan ⦿ Latvia ⦿ Liechtenstein ⦿ Lithuania ⦿ Luxemburg ⦿ Macedonia ⦿ Malta ⦿ Moldova ⦿ Montenegro ⦿ The Netherlands ⦿ Northern Ireland ⦿ Norway ⦿ Ogham ⦿ Old Italic ⦿ Poland ⦿ Portugal ⦿ Romania ⦿ Russia ⦿ Scotland ⦿ Serbia ⦿ Slovakia ⦿ Slovenia ⦿ Spain ⦿ Sweden ⦿ Switzerland ⦿ Turkey ⦿ United Kingdom ⦿ Ukraine ⦿ Uzbekistan ⦿ Wales

Far East: ⦿ China ⦿ Hong-Kong ⦿ Japan ⦿ Korean/Hangul/Chosongul ⦿ Macao ⦿ Mongolia ⦿ North Korea ⦿ South Korea ⦿ Taiwan

Latin America: ⦿ Argentina ⦿ Aztec culture ⦿ Bahamas ⦿ Barbados ⦿ Belize ⦿ Bermuda ⦿ Bolivia ⦿ Brazil ⦿ Chile ⦿ Colombia ⦿ Costa Rica ⦿ Cuba ⦿ Dominican Republic ⦿ Ecuador ⦿ El Salvador ⦿ Guatemala ⦿ Honduras ⦿ Mayan ⦿ Mexico ⦿ Nicaragua ⦿ Panama ⦿ Paraguay ⦿ Peru ⦿ Puerto Rico ⦿ Suriname ⦿ Trinidad & Tobago ⦿ Uruguay ⦿ Venezuela

Middle East: ⦿ Arabic ⦿ Armenian ⦿ Assyrian/Syriac ⦿ Azerbaijani ⦿ Bahrein ⦿ Coptic ⦿ Cuneiform ⦿ Dubai ⦿ Egypt ⦿ Hebrew ⦿ Hieroglyphics ⦿ Iran ⦿ Iraq ⦿ Israel ⦿ Jordan ⦿ Kurdistan ⦿ Kuwait ⦿ Lebanon ⦿ Pakistan ⦿ Palestine ⦿ Qatar ⦿ Saudi Arabia ⦿ Syria ⦿ UAE ⦿ Ugaritic ⦿ Uyghur

Non-Latin America: ⦿ Canada ⦿ Hawaii ⦿ Native American ⦿ Québec ⦿ United States

South Asia: ⦿ Bali ⦿ Bangladesh ⦿ Bengali ⦿ Bhutanese ⦿ Borneo ⦿ Brunei ⦿ Burmese ⦿ Cambodian (Khmer) ⦿ Chakma ⦿ Filipino ⦿ Gujarati ⦿ Hmong ⦿ India ⦿ Indic ⦿ Indonesia ⦿ Kannada ⦿ Laotian ⦿ Malayalam ⦿ Malaysia ⦿ Maldives ⦿ Marathi ⦿ Nepali ⦿ Oriya ⦿ Pakistan ⦿ Papua ⦿ Philippines ⦿ Punjabi/Gurmukhi ⦿ Santali ⦿ Singapore ⦿ Sinhala ⦿ Sri Lanka ⦿ Sulawesi ⦿ Sumatra ⦿ Tamil ⦿ Telugu ⦿ Thaana ⦿ Thai ⦿ Tibetan ⦿ Vietnamese

United States: ⦿ Alabama ⦿ Alaska ⦿ Arizona ⦿ Arkansas ⦿ California ⦿ Colorado ⦿ Connecticut ⦿ DC ⦿ Delaware ⦿ Florida ⦿ Georgia ⦿ Hawaii ⦿ Idaho ⦿ Illinois ⦿ Indiana ⦿ Iowa ⦿ Kansas ⦿ Kentucky ⦿ Louisiana ⦿ Maine ⦿ Maryland ⦿ Massachusetts ⦿ Michigan ⦿ Minnesota ⦿ Mississippi ⦿ Missouri ⦿ Montana ⦿ Nebraska ⦿ Nevada ⦿ New Hampshire ⦿ New Jersey ⦿ New Mexico ⦿ New York ⦿ North Carolina ⦿ North Dakota ⦿ Ohio ⦿ Oklahoma ⦿ Oregon ⦿ Pennsylvania ⦿ Rhode Island ⦿ South Carolina ⦿ South Dakota ⦿ Tennessee ⦿ Texas ⦿ Utah ⦿ Vermont ⦿ Virginia ⦿ Washington ⦿ West Virginia ⦿ Wisconsin ⦿ Wyoming

History

⦿ 18-th century foundries ⦿ 19-th century foundries ⦿ (extinct) 20-th century foundries ⦿ History of type ⦿ Photo type / film type era ⦿ Wood type fonts

My own stuff

⦿ Articles on typography ⦿ Type research (over 250 free fonts) ⦿ Font hosting (for others) ⦿ Font samples ⦿ Randomly generated typo posters ⦿ Sugaku font series

Software

⦿ Colored typefaces ⦿ Flash font software ⦿ Font editors (non-Mac) ⦿ Font editors (Mac) ⦿ Font managers (non-Mac) ⦿ Font managers (Mac) ⦿ Fonts and HTML ⦿ FontStruct Fonts ⦿ Mac<=>PC font conversion ⦿ OpenType ⦿ PDF font extraction ⦿ PostScript to TrueType conversion ⦿ Other font software ⦿ Randomized fonts ⦿ Standards/ISO/Unicode ⦿ TrueType software ⦿ TrueType to PostScript conversion ⦿ TrueType versus type 1 ⦿ Type 1 to OpenType conversion ⦿ Type 1 software ⦿ Type 3 fonts ⦿ Type 42 fonts ⦿ UFO (Unified Font Object) ⦿ Variable fonts ⦿ Web fonts ⦿ X windows font software

Metafont

⦿ Metafont ⦿ TEX

PostScript

⦿ EPS ⦿ General ⦿ Ghostscript ⦿ GNU sites ⦿ GX ⦿ My own useless intro ⦿ PDF ⦿ PostScript pages ⦿ PostScript to ... filters ⦿ ... to PostScript filters ⦿ Utilities

Links

⦿ Main links to font link pages

Contact

Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University ⦿ Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org/index.html