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Last update: Sun Feb 15 12:39:43 EST 2009
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Type activity web pages in Buenos Aires, geared towards Spanish-speaking typographers and designers. Created in 1996 by Tomás García Ferrari and Carolina Short. There is also a mail group to which you can subscribe here. [Google] | |
Mailing list run by Ellinor at Fontaddict. [Google] | |
Calligraphy mailing list |
Send an email with the Subject: subscribe. Leave any Cc, Bcc, and Attachments information blank. Managed by Jim Martin, this list discusses calligraphy. [Google] |
Online Yahoo group on Copperplate & Spencerian. [Google] | |
A mail group for creating fonts. [Google] | |
Cyberscribes |
Calligraphy mailing list managed by Margaret Amoss. Subscribe by using the format: subscribe callig your-email-address [Google] |
Internet calligraphy discussion group. [Google] | |
Discussion forum on type. [Google] | |
Forum about fonts. [Google] | |
Font Creator
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At High Logic in the Netherlands, Erwin Denissen (who is based near Utrecht) has developed a font editor called Font Creator. Delphi source code is free! It can take any TTF and OTF file. You can modify any glyph, and save it. You can convert scanned glyphs and bitmaps (.bmp files) to TrueType outlines, thus enabling you to create your own handwriting. No type 1 support. Windows only. At some point, Font Creator switched from shareware to payware. It also added Scanahand, a Windows tool for making handwriting into a font. His CV reads: Erwin Denissen started his career as an employee at ICT Automatisering, mainly working with Delphi. About two years later he switched to Bolesian were he made a move to Java software development. When Bolesian was eaten by it's big sister Capgemini in 2001, Erwin Denissen continued to work with Java. After several successful projects, and moving from software engineer to software designer to project leader, he decided to quit his job and fully focus on his own company High-Logic, he started back in 1997 as a graduate project. As an independent software vendor, Erwin Denissen strives to continue developing new and innovative products for the world-wide typography market. Right now High-Logic has three products, a font editor, a font manager and a font generator. In March 2008 Erwin Denissen acquired MyTools.com, including 8 products. In July 2008 yourfonts.com was launched as an online font generation service. More fonts related utilities are expected soon. [Google] |
A Yahoo group interested in collecting fonts. [Google] | |
Font swap group run by Wendy Blough. [Google] | |
Looks like a mail group for font addicts. [Google] | |
Font information exchange page. In German. [Google] | |
Mailing list and font forum. [Google] | |
"For those who collect & use true type fonts for scrapbooking, crafts, any kind of personal use :-)Please be advised that mail may be high in volume, and will contain attachments :-) Discussions will include but are not unlimited too Fonts, and font management.... A seperate list will be available soon to those interested in Graphic Alphabets. The only restrictions the list has is that attachments are limited to fonts, and that no flaming or advertising (unless approved by list moderator) will be allowed! " [Google] | |
Font Garden's font forum. Quite active. But marred by pop-ups. [Google] | |
S. John Ross's mailing list devoted solely to font creation. [Google] | |
News and messages. [Google] | |
Font discussion group organized by Becky Smith, aka Chennoa. Font archive for members only. Subgroup for fast access to fonts, and subgroup for type 1 fonts. [Google] | |
A slightly less busy font forum. [Google] | |
Font forum. [Google] | |
Discussion forum. [Google] | |
Michael "TypeSmith" started this type chatroom. For IRC clients, the host is "webmaster.ca.us.webchat.org", channel "#fonts&typography". [Google] | |
German language group interested in starting a web presence with a mailing list, linked web pages, font pages, and so on. [Google] | |
Mailing list for the GOTE gnome editor, run by Robert Brady. Mail to all list members. [Google] | |
A forum to discuss typography. The last message dates from June 2000, so this one is virtually dead. [Google] | |
Apostrophe's listbot list, where he and his co-designers exchange information on their present and future fonts. This is a moderated list. In order to send mail to the list, you need to address your message to labcat@listbot.com. [Google] | |
Discussion list on type and calligraphy. In Portuguese. List manager: Roberto Marques and Sapien Design. [Google] | |
If you want to join, just mail listserv@ens.fr with empty subject field, the message being the single line: sub METAFONT firstname lastname. Contribute article via metafont@ens.fr. [Google] | |
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Online Yahoo group on penmanship. [Google] | |
Yahoo group of about 150 people interested in type 1 fonts. Post a message. Contact the moderator. Unsubscribe. New URL. [Google] | |
Mailing list about the world's writing systems: Alphabets, ideographs and hieroglyphs; calligraphy, typography and fonts; i18n, character sets and input methods; Morse, Braille and sign language; literacy, history of writing and invented scripts. These are just a few examples of on-topic subjects. [Google] | |
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Internet mailing list dedicated to onscreen typography. [Google] | |
Looks like a mail group for font addicts. [Google] | |
Jim Michael's Fresno-based archive of GAELIC-L, a mailing list for users who want to communicate in Irish, Scottish or Manx Gaelic. The home of GAELIC-L is listserv@listserv.hea.ie at University College, Dublin in Dublin, Ireland. [Google] | |
Michel Bujardet's open list has been created as an electronic way to continuing the spirit found by participants at the TypeCon 98 conference, in Westborough, Massachussets, where type designers met in a relaxed setting, to discuss their hopes, concerns, and projects. The archives. [Google] | |
Typefonts.html newsletter
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Newsletter created by Taylor Andrews, who made the font "Possibly". [Google] |
Typetalk |
To subscribe, send "subscribe typetalk firstname lastname" (no subject). To publish an article, mail to typetalk@hookup.net. [Google] |
Typographic Collaboration (or: Typophile.com)
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Typophile.com is run by Jared Benson, who is Jonathan Hoefler's webmaster since 1999, from San Francisco. Incredible web pages! Jared designed Review Beta, Yakuza (Japanese letters), Benson Caps (pixel font), Benson Linear (pixel font), Pixeltrap (2003), Bitmuni (2003, based on San Francisco MUNI train windows: a fantastic creation!), Trinary (2003, a crazy bar-coding typeface invention), Benson Nonlinear (another font for small point sizes), Freiburger (2003, based on a scan from from D.B. Updike's Printing Types, Vol 1, pg. 87. This was the type used for the first Bible printed in France: Freiburger, Gering and Kranz, Paris 1476) and Academic. A Forum for typohiles. Typophile.com is a general information site on type with essays, discussions, tutorials, examples, beautifully organized. On April 8, 2002, Jared limits one of the most interesting places in the web world with this message: "While we encourage healthy debate and meaningful discussion, posts containing inflammatory remarks and/or personal attacks will be deleted in their entirety by the board moderator. " [Google] |
Useful French typography mailing list started by Jacques André, Thierry Bouche, Alain Hurtig and Olivier Randier. Managed by Jacques André from the University of Rennes. Complete archive of this mailing list. [Google] | |
Mail group for typographers. [Google] | |
The mailing list devoted to type discussion. Always interesting. Moderated by Gary Munch. [Google] | |
Great forums and message boards on type. Run by Jared Benson and Joe Pemberton. On April 8, 2002, after 2 years of operation, Jared throws in the towel with this message: "While we encourage healthy debate and meaningful discussion, posts containing inflammatory remarks and/or personal attacks will be deleted in their entirety by the board moderator. " Typophile continues as a polite politically correct tearoom. [Google] |
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Luc Devroye