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Free service by some font enthusiasts: free fonts posted by occasional type designers on alt.binaries.fonts are collected here for easy download, and for historical reference. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Abstract Fonts
| Growing 13000+ font archive maintained by Alex Chumak from Mississauga, ON. Chumak himself designed these fonts: AF Pepsi, AF Champion, AF Tommy Hilfiger. List of designers. New fonts. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Choose from many lists of font selections. New lists published almost daily. Addictive Fonts is a joint project of two students from Pakistan, Saad Bassi and Taimur Asghar. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aegir Hallmundur
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AisleOne
| Interesting graphic design and typography news and blog site by Antonio Carusone. His CV in his own words: Born in Queens, NY into a colorful Italian family, Antonio Carusone has been in the creative arts since he was a child. His early artistic talents led him to NYCs esteemed, High School of Art and Design, where he graduated in 1997. He then attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and The Academy of Art College in San Francisco, where he studied Computer Animation. Currently Antonio resides in NYC, where he is a Senior Art Director at Ogilvy. Prior to Ogilvy he was an Art Director at Atmosphere BBDO where he worked on projects which have included Lays, Dial, Red Stripe, AOL, NFL, Gillette, Cingular, Audi, Verizon, and Bank of America. Type subpage. Commercial faces: Enotmik (2008, a monocase display typeface available in two weights, Light and Bold. Designed on a grid, Enotmik (2008) is made up of 90 and 45 degree angles). See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Links to free fonts for Japanese. Also, discussion and news on commercial Japanese fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alex Chumak
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Alexander Neuber
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Russian language type news and blog site managed by the Jakovlev Type Foundry. Subpage on Russian fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
News page run by Nononina, the company that owns Alltop. It consists of Will Mayall, Kathryn Henkens and Guy Kawasaki: We import the stories of the top news websites and blogs for any given topic and display the headlines of the five most recent stories (except Moms.alltop which has fewer headlines because there are so many feeds). This an automated link page---don't expect original contributions to type. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Newsgroup with many postings, loaded with hints, tips, pointers, subliminal messages and hacker info. On slow days, about 5 fonts get posted, while on some days (like December 17, 1997), over 1000 fonts are posted. In 1997, virtually every Adobe font was posted, as well as many fonts from Image Club Graphics, T-26, Letraset and ITC. Towards the end of 1998, the flow of fonts had dried up. In 1999 and 2000, it picked up again, with some posts having up to 10,000 commercial fonts in them. Presently, the Adobe collection gets posted about once per year in its entirety. See also StBen, StBen II, Usenet Replayer, binsearch.info, ngindex (not free, but you can see what is available). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
American Amateur Press Association (AAPA)
| Organization with many type pages related to letterpress, and run mostly by Dave Tribby. I quote Tribby: From its formation in 1892 (from the merger of 23 leading foundries) to its demise in the late twentieth century, American Type Founders was the dominant force in foundry type. Throughout its existence, ATF produced some of the most beautiful printing fonts. During its first half century, those faces were displayed in a series of substantial catalogs. Chicago's Barnhart Brothers & Spindler foundry chose not to join the ATF combine in the 1890s. It finally became part of ATF in 1911, but continued to operate under its own name until it was closed in 1933. Based upon Mac McGrew's American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century, Maurice Annenberg's Type Foundries of America and their Catalogs, and a review of ATF type catalogs published in 1897, 1899, 1900, 1903, 1906, 1909, 1912, 1923, 1934, 1941, 1960, and 1971 (plus BB&S catalog No. 25), Tribby has compiled a spreadsheet of ATF typefaces, their identification numbers, and which page numbers they appeared on in those catalogs. He put together a similar spreadsheet for BB&S catalogs that were published in 1897, 1909, and 1925. The following PDF files were prepared from the individual worksheets in the spreadsheet file.
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Andrij Shevchenko
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Antonio Carusone
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ATypI, Association Typographique Internationale, is the type community's premier organization. Founded in 1957 by Charles Peignot. Its goals are
Past presidents, from oldest to current: Charles Peignot, John Dreyfus, Tage Bolander, Martin Fehle, Ernst-Erich Marhencke, Mark Batty, Jean François Porchez, and John D. Berry. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Typography subgroup at the Behance Network collection of blogs. Projects appreciated by yours truly. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font news in English and Spanish. Lots of updates! [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brian A. Jaramillo
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Free font sharing service started in 2008. It has over 3,000 fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A design collective with subpages on typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Caroline Hadilaksono
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Type news from this group located in Chicago. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cpluv.com is a daily magazine on art, design and creative culture. They report on typefaces and fonts as well. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font news on-line. Edited by John Berry. More specific page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creattica is an image bank with a subsection on typography. Check out the letter-based image called Bug (2010) by Ebru Selçuk. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Until 2013, it was mainly hosted by Jim Hefferon at St. Michael's College. In 2013, the new official North American redistribution site is at the University of Utah, thanks to Nelson Beebe and Pieter Bowman. Recommended file transfers, in decreasing order of efficiency: rsync, ftp and http. Generic redirector to balance traffic. | |
DaFONT
| Useful French archive with nice categories such as Cartoons, Horror, Tech, Fantasy, Script, Symbols, Famous fonts, pixel fonts, typewriter, Gothic. It has grown to be the number one site in the world for publishing new free fonts. All designers are clearly identified, and all font information is easily accessible. Links. About 10000 fonts now, with monthly additions. Newest stuff. Links to all designers. All pre-October 2009 fonts in one 660MB download file. Run by Rodolphe Milan. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Daily Type
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Dan Reynolds
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Dave Tribby
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Latest links and information added by David McCreedy to his great unicode pages for most languages. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
David Wolske
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Designer gallery, with a small subpage on type design. Slow. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type tag site. Very useful for finding and reporting interesting type links. It will remain useful until the spammers and businesses flood it with useless information. Typography sub-site. Update in Septemer 2011: The site just lost all its attraction. Pages report a maximum of ten hits; we can't see how many times they were tagged; and the amount of white on each page is exaggerated, resulting in wasted time scrolling. Sad to see information content sacrificed on the iPad altar. The most recent change only shows the top hits on any topic, so it is quite impossible to discover new places. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Design & typo
| Peter Gabor's type blog and type education site in Paris, started in 2005. In French and English. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Design Observer
| A design site where one sometimes finds discussions on type. The founding writers are Michael Bierut, William Drenttel (an ex-typographer practicing law), Jessica Helfand and Rick Poynor. From Bierut's CV: Michael Bierut studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. Prior to joining Pentagram in 1990 as a partner in the firm's New York office, he worked for ten years at Vignelli Associates, ultimately as vice president of graphic design. His clients at Pentagram have included The Council of Fashion Designers of America, Harley-Davidson, The Minnesota Children's Museum, The Walt Disney Company, Mohawk Paper Mills, Motorola, Princeton University, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the New York Jets. Bierut's work is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Montreal. He has served as president of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) from 1988 to 1990 and is president emeritus of AIGA National. Michael was elected to the Alliance Graphique Internationale in 1989, and was elected to the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 2003. Michael is a Senior Critic in Graphic Design at the Yale School of Art. He writes frequently about design and the co-editor of the four-volume series Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic published by Allworth Press. In 1998 he co-edited and designed the monograph Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist. His commentaries about graphic design in everyday life can be heard nationally on the Public Radio International program "Studio 360." Additional material and links on Bierut: The Atlantic Talks Typography: interview with M. Bierut , Pentagram link, Reasons to Choose a Particular Typeface For a Project. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
First established in 1994 to provide an online web site for DT&G Zine. DT&G was originally published each month on AOL and Compuserve for attendees of Fred Showker's design and publishing seminar and conference appearances. The Design&Publishing Center is owned by Showker Graphic Arts&Design, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA, established in 1972. Hot type news, type discussions, and links. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designers Talk
| Oli Dale is the Manchester, UK-based designer of the futuristic sans face Busby Sans (2004). He also runs the Designers Talk type discussion page. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
That is how a design cow sounds. There is a subpage on fonts, where people showcase their latest creations. Many fonts are free. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
designworkplan
| Type design and typography blog and news site (part of a much larger graphic design blog) run by Dutchman Sander Baumann. Alternate URL, where one can find his SymbolSigns-Basisset font made in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Forum on DTP which exists since 1989. Sublist on fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
I know, the real name is deviantART, but I like Devian Tart better. Several original fonts by a gaggle of young crazy happy-go-lucky designers and enthusiasts. The original fonts are mixed in with archived fonts, so it's a bit of a jungle. However, it was a goldmine of undiscovered fonts and new ideas, until about 2010. Since then, the site gets swamped with self-promotion messages, and amateurish graphics, and the font downloads have dwindled to a trickle. Direct downloads at TypOasis. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dribbble is show and tell for designers. Players share shots---small screenshots of the designs and applications they are working on. Some have called Dribbble "Twitter for designers." Invented by Dan Cederholm, Rich Thornett, and Bruce Spang. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Media bookmarking site, with some type design coverage. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
DT&G Typography
| Type News site run by Freddy Showker. The Design&Publishing Center is owned by Showker Graphic Arts&Design, Harrisonburg, VA. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Big free font download site (ca. 1900 fonts). Font authors. New fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Additions in 2005 include the dingbat faces Beautilities EF Alpha, Ornamental Rules EF, Diavolo Rules EF, Squares EF (Alpha, Beta and Gamma), Topographicals EF Alpha, Typoflorals EF Alpha, Typographicals EF Alpha, Typomix EF Alpha, Typosigns EF Alpha, Typospecs EF Alpha and Beta (which have several fists), Typostuff EF Alpha, Diavolo EF, Schablone EF, Gigant EF, Maloni EF, OCRA EF, EF Unovis (a 16-weight family inspired by Quadrat). In the hand-printed category, let us mention Filzerhand. Their blackletter collection includes some bastardas (Alte Schwabacher, Lucida Blackletter), some frakturs (Fraktur, Fette Fraktur EF, Justus Fraktur, NeueLutherscheFraktur, Walbaum-Fraktur), some rotundas (Weiss-Rundgotisch), and some texturas (Gotisch, Old English). Commissioned fonts include Castrol Sans (2007). Selected additional typefaces: Gillies Gothic EF (1935, after William S. Gillies), EF Medieva, Bank Sans Caps EF, Metropolitain (1985) (after a 1905 art nouveau face by Fonderie Berthier). Newest URL (2008). Listing at Fontworks. Future events schedule. New fonts. Catalog of their typefaces [large web page warning]. See also here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Emil Olsson
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Erik Brandt
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Erik Spiekermann
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Erik Vorhes
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Erin McLaughlin
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Erwin Denissen
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Ethan Dunham
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Type design and typography news site, as part of a larger design news site. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Search engine for type-related photographs. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font vendor and free font archive offering over 25 free fonts. Font authors. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font Squirrel
| Ethan Dunham's list of free fonts from and for professional type designers. The archive is huge (622 at the end of 2010) and clearly organized. There are useful @font-face kits to help users place these fonts on their web sites. Newly added faces. List of foundries. Ethan Dunham also runs a similar commercial web font service, Fontspring. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Font-A-Day
| The "About" of March 1, 2010, reads: FONT A DAY is a place for me to put some of the free/shareware/etc fonts I come across on my internet travels. I am going to try to post at least one free font a day in a format that windows and mac people can use, and try to tell a little about the typeface and the designer whenever possible. The page is run by Ronald Sansone (Middletown, CT). By the end of 2010, holes started appearing in the updates. We are converging towards one or two a week. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Jürgen Siebert's great font blog (in German). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free font archival service, almost 10,000 strong. Latest additions. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontShop's type news site, with contributions by Yves Peters, Jürgen Siebert, Ivo Grabowitsch and Stephen Coles. 2009 or 2010 picture of its editors, Yves Peters, Erik Spiekermann, Juergen Siebert and Stephen Coles. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Japanese font site with links to new Japanese fonts and Japanese font sites. Has some links for Western fonts as well. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font archive. Font authors. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Semi-lively forum on the technical aspects of font design, and not just abut FontLab. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free font archive, started up in 2012 by Ayman Hafez in Cairo. Google Plus link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type news and type blog located in Hungary, run by Tamas, Teufel, and Jobart (Eva and Gábor) and the Kóthay's (Eva, Sára, Kata and Gábor). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Advertised as the center of Polish type. It has an active archive with many new postings. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontReactor
| Spanish archive with well over 1000 truetype fonts, categorized in all possible ways. The site is run by Guillem Catala. List of designers. Newest fonts. List of foundries. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fonts2U
| Large nicely categorized font archive. Font designers. Font vendors. The owner seems to Peter Olexa, a Slovakian visual artist who is based in Bratislava. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fontshop blog with stories abouts its typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Established in 1989 in Berlin by Erik Spiekermann, Joan Spiekermann and Neville Brody. Also offices in San Francisco, Australia, Austria and Norway. It has a formidable collection of fonts, better known as the FontFont collection. It is a major source of new type, and organizes a Conference in Berlin each year, called TYPO Berlin. Fontshop team. Designers. Subpages: FontFeed (font news), FontStruct (free modular fontre), FontBook, Font education. Catalog of FontFont's typefaces [large web page warning]. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Fontsinuse
| Stephen Coles set up this site about fonts in advertising and the media in 2010. The initial page reads: Our effort begins here, with a regularly updated collection of case studies and trend reports. We've invited experts from various fields to comment on how type is used (and misused) in graphic design today. In our first few installments, magazine designer Marc Oxborrow has an emotional reaction to the redesign of Bloomberg Businessweek, the Font Bureau's Sam Berlow notices that the type specimen has become a design genre, I point to some recent projects in which type and especially typeface selection plays a central role, and instructor and historian Indra Kupferschmid reminds us that the real Bauhaus was not all geometric and experimental letterforms. This blog is a prologue of more to come. Behind the scenes, we are building a searchable, sharable archive of typographic design, all indexed by typeface, industry, and medium. And you are invited to join us. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Free font hosting site. In 2009, it had over 550 designers and over 20,000 fonts, incredibly neatly categorized and cross-listed. List of participating designers. Newest additions. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStruct
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List of many designers and fonts at FontStruct compiled by yours truly. My wishlist for them: to add all font designer names to their pages and inside the fonts, to organize a super-page with a list of all designers, to speed up the software and/or internet line (by a factor of ten), to fix the browser crashes reported by many (Allan Weiser and others; Mac OSX Leopard/Firefox has problems and still crashes Firefox as late as January 2010) and to enable mass downloads and mass downloads per designer. Daumen9 made by Crissov in 2009 exposes the fundamental flaw of all modular designs that work within the limitations of truetype or opentype or type 1---one can't achieve proper small circles. Not FontStruct's error---blame it on short-sightedness of the font format engineers. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Francisca Reyes
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Freddy Showker
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Frederik Samuel
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Free Fonts
| Excellent free font search engine. Run by Alexander Neuber. More direct page. Handwriting archive. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
freetypography.com
| Free font blog and news site maintained by Philipp Thom (Ulm, Germany). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typography sub-pages at Fubiz Daily Dose of Inspiration. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Geotypografika
| Blog and type news site run by Erik Brandt. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Google's answer to web fonts, including a directory of over 500 free fonts. Their goal was to have 1000 fonts by the end of 2011, but they passed the 500 mark only in 2012. Download all fonts in one 36MB file. Blog. On May 19, 2010, Typekit announced and open source collaboration with Google called the WebFontLoader: Now you can have complete control over how fonts are loaded and what happens when they're rendered. You can download the code and use it however you like, or link directly to the latest version via the Google Ajax APIs. [...] You can use WebFont Loader with fonts on your own server, links to the just-announced Google Webfont API, or any Typekit account. We've also made sure the code is modular, so other font hosting services can add to it in the future. Google offers these fonts for free, and pays its designers a few thousand dollars. This prompted a reaction from Bruno Maag in 2012: Yes, Google with its free fonts, or libre fonts as they like to call them, is a particular bugbear of mine. Now, if someone wants to make their fonts available for free that is up to them; I have no problems with that. However, it is very different if a giant corporate entity which has a market valuation of a gazillion dollars is asking young and budding designers to submit their fonts for a measly few thousand dollars under the condition of an open source licence. I call this exploitation as well as a complete disregard for design. The result, unfortunately, is that in many cases the fonts are of not very good quality since they have been designed by inexperienced designers. | |
Blog related to a bookseller in Oakland, CA. They state: Grain Edit is a blog that covers contemporary graphic design and illustration as well as design from the from the golden era of advertising (1950s-1970s). Besides found tidbits of news, interviews and events we will be posting obscure kids books, annuals, type catalogues, corporate manuals, and designer monographs from our shelves. Type subpage. Archives. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font vendor site. Individuals can hawk their new fonts here, with typical font prices between 2 and 10 dollars. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Guillem Catala
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High Logic Font Forum
| Font Creator and Scanahand are font editors made by High Logic (Erwin Denissen). They have an active forum, with a lot of interesting technical discussions. Gallery of fonts made with High Logic software. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Hindi Rinny
| Hindi Rinny is a great Indian type blog and news place run by Erin McLaughlin (b. 1985), a graphic designer in Minneapolis. After graduation from the type design program at the University of Reading in 2010, she joined Hoefler&Frere-Jones in New York. She designed Katari for her thesis. Originally from Minnesota, Erin created an angular typeface---à la Oldrich Menhart---, and added a matching Devanagari style---the harmonious ensemble is called Katari. |
Hugo Charrao
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I Love Typography
| Type information site and blog run since 2007 by graphic designer and web developer John D. Boardley from Kagawa, Japan. Glossary. Examples of inspiring use of display/poster type. Their exquisite logo. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Big Russian font archive, nicely categorized and organized. New things. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ilya Ruderman
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Italic 2.0 is an Italian blog and type project, very central to all that is happening on the type scene in Italy. There is also a book by the same title, dated 2008, edited by Marta Bernstein, Luciano Perondi, and Silvia Sfligiotti, with articles by Giovanni Lussu, James Clough, Antonio Cavedoni, Marta Bernstein, Luciano Perondi, Giangiorgio Fuga, and Silvia Sfligiotti. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jaksa Zsolt
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James Mosley
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John D. Boardley
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Josh Farmer
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Juan Pablo De Gregorio Concha
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Kyle Meyer
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Letritas
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LetterCult
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Behance link. Brian is located in Signal Hill, CA. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Letterpress daily
| Beautiful letterpress type showcase site by David Wolske, who has taught design, typography, and letterpress printing at Indiana University, Herron School of Art and Design, Columbia College Chicago's Center for Book and Paper Arts, Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum, and The University of Utah. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Michael Bierut
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Articles on Arabic type by Edo and Huda Smitshuijzen. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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German version of MyFonts, launched in 2009. It is far from a copy---it is different, fresh, and has interesting typographic discussions. Jan Middendorp: We'll offer type reviews and case studies, interviews, historical articles and the occasional book or magazine review. It is a joint venture between Jan Middendorp and designer/co-editor Frank Rausch. Florian Hardwig is contributing editor. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Nicolas Spalinger
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Oli Dale
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Set up in 2006 and finalized in 2011 by Jon Phillips, the original goal of this site was summarized as follows: The Open Font Library is a sister project of the Open Clip Art Library. The goal of this project is to collect public domain fonts so that they may be used freely. In 2011, they wrote: At the 6th Libre Graphics Meeting 2011 in Montreal, the Open Font Library, the Open Font Library community and Fabricatorz launch an online library of fonts that all type designers and font enthusiasts may participate in. The goal of the Open Font Library is to offer great fonts, help designers share their work, accelerate the usage of the @font-face tag available in modern web browsers, and to help educate everyone about how to design and use fonts. The Open Font Library received sponsorship and direction from Dave Crossland. Other major contributors to the project include Alexandre Prokoudine, Ben Weiner, Ed Trager, Eric Schrijver, James Weiner, Jon Phillips, Nicolas Spalinger, and Robert Martinez, who developed the Open Font Library logo. Initial patrons to the project include Mozilla Foundation, River Valley Technologies, TeX Users Group and Yes Logic. The Font Library has also benefited tremendously from input by participants at the Libre Graphics Meeting 2011. Others mentioned in earlier years include Benji Park, Nicu Buculei, Alexandre Prokoudine, and Simos Xenitellis. The original batch of free fonts includes Inkcalig (2006, a calligraphic face by James Kilfiger), LetsTracebasic (2006; a *very* readable light sans, even at small sizes), LetsTraceruled, RDS (2003, LED simulation face), TribalBenji (2005, by Benji Park), handfont (2005, Benji Park), handfontshadow (2005, Benji Park), PugsleyOblique (2006), AlphabetofChildren (2006, based on 16th century illuminated caps), AnimalSilhouette (2006), and Fold (2006). Wiki page. Additional URL for Dave Crossland. Software problems have wreaked havoc with the OFL site since 2010, so others made pages that are helpful: List of fonts with specimen, Download link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Opinionated Type
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OSP stands for Open Source Publishing (Design Tools for Designers). It is a blog and a news site based in Belgium. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
ParaType news, in Russian. De-Fis is ParaType's e-zine. Russian type glossary. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Don Serifa is a beautiful and informative Spanish type blog run by Pedro Arilla, who is based in Zaragoza, Spain, and who was born in 1984 in Ejea de los Caballeros, and studied graphic design at Escuela Superior de Diseño de Aragón. Pedro also designed some typefaces. These include the free didone typeface Valentina (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pedro Serrao
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Peter Gabor
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Peter Olexa
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Peter Reichard
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Philipp Thom
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This site shows "pins" (images) from other sites, with subpages on everything, including typography, calligraphy and typography, lettering, typefaces, typographic design, fonts, more typography, more fonts. Why, they even have a subpage on Luc Devroye's pins. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
News stories and picture galleries related to graphic design and typography in France. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jean-Christophe Loubet del Bayle's web site on typography. In French. Besides articles, there are also useful type links. Old pages. Temps typographiques. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Planet Open Fonts
| Blog and open source font news, moderated by Nicolas Spalinger. The community's manifesto: We are members of the wider FLOSS community and we have a special interest in open fonts: appropriate licensing, collaborative typeface design, featureful open font design toolkit, packaging and availability of quality open fonts in the various distributions and OSes to cover the needs of language communities, publishers and artists, etc. We support the Open Font License as the recommended license for libre/open fonts. We are users, contributors and developers of various components of the open font design toolkit. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Type news. Type museum. Small archive. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Preik is a personal, non-commercial, project by Paranaiv. It has a type blog. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
New Russian language type news site and type blog. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jean-François Porchez's great on-line newspaper about type. Great web page. Full of information. A must! Lots of links to books. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type blog run by Armin Vit since 2001. Speak-up. Type subpages. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ralf Herrmann
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Currently Ralf Herrmann is doing his PhD at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. In his dissertation he researches the implications of cognitive map research applied to the design of maps and wayfinding systems. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik on the topic of the eszet letter. Hooptie Script (2011) is a connected fifties script designed by Ralf after a trip to Motor City. In 2012, Ralf Herrmann and Sebastian Nagel codesigned the Wayfinding Sans Pro family. This useful typeface was published at FDI. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Ralf Herrmann
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Readable Web
| Web type news, edited by Richard Fink (Naples, FL), a web developer, research analyst, journalist and critic. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Richard Fink
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Robert Meek
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Rodolphe Milan
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Ronald Sansone
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Sander Baumann
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Subpage at Slanted that reports new typefaces. In German. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type design and type examples at Smashing Magazine. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Spatium Newsletter
| German site concerned with typography, type news, interviews, links, and discussions, and masterfully managed by Peter Reichard (Offenbach) and Christopher Lindlohr (Frankfurt). Peter designed the cute dingbat font PixelheadHandmadeBeta (2001). Pixel font links. Typosition is an on-line type-in-design mag (free, PDF format). Now also in print. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Spiekermann's blog
| Erik Spiekermann's type blog. Copy is set in Espi Slab Regular, Head lines in Espi Sans Bold, Twitter Feeds in Espi Sans Regular and Bold. Espi is Erik Spiekermann's exclusive version of FF Unit and FF Unit Slab. Done with Typekit. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Stephen Coles
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Stephen Coles
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Steve Buffoni
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Swiss Miss
| Design blog by Tina Roth Eisenberg (Switzerland&New York City). Has subpages on type design. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Knowledgeable type design group on Devian Tart: Temple of Typefaces features the best fonts, typefaces, type design and hopefully a lot of type-related talk, debate and constructive criticism. All typography lovers are welcome but only quality type is allowed. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Cooper Union School of Art is a famous design (and type design) school in New York City. Starting in the fall of 2010, the Continuing Education Department of The Cooper Union, in conjunction with the Type Directors Club, offers a Certificate Program in Typeface Design, called Type @ Cooper. The faculty includes Jesse Ragan, Ken Barber, Stephen O. Saxe, Roger Black, Mark Jamra and Christian Schwartz. Cooper Union Typography is a jump site for many typographic treasures. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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In-house free font creations include League Gothic (2009) [League Gothic is a revival of an old classic, and one of our favorite typefaces, Alternate Gothic No.1. It was originally designed by Morris Fuller Benton for the American Type Founders Company (ATF) in 1903. The company went bankrupt in 1993. And since the original typeface was created before 1923, the typeface is in the public domain.] [Google] [More] ⦿ |
The Ministry of Type
| British type blog run by Aegir Hallmundur who lives in Brighton, UK. Subpages. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Spanish language web site with thoughts on type and design by Ramiro Espinoza. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Spanish language type blog and type jump and news site. It has excerpts of many type articles, and subpages on type history, type design type designers and type foundries. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Intro to type (in Russian). Discussion of web fonts, with links to free fonts (in Russian). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type and letter design site run by Olivera Stojadinović, Jana Orsolic (was: Nikolic) and Olivera Batajic Sretenovic from Serbia. Types shown there:
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An active and refreshing type blog out of Trondheim. They write about themselves: TTC (Trondheim Type Club) started out in 2008 by Aasmund Hegglid and Trond Aslak Øvrum. The idea was made in 2007 as something we missed in our town. A breeding place for type-fanatics. We are now a group of people with relations to the design/advertising industry in Trondheim, Norway. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Twitter, the armpit of the cyber-universe, can be of passive use to some old geezers sniffing around the web. But that does not mean I like it. It's at the level of superficiality of Lou Dobbs or Berlusconi. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Type blog at Adobe, now run by Paul Hunt. Before him, it was run by Thomas Phinney. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type For You
| Portuguese type blog by Pedro Serrao, Joao Planche and Pedro Mesquita. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Type Theory
| Type Theory is a journal of contemporary typography featuring news, views, reviews and interviews. Ty Wilkins founded Type Theory in January of 2009. He graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design and currently works as a graphic designer for Gardner Design where he specializes in brand development. Ty Wilkins is the Macon, GA-based graphic designer who made the kitchen tile face TY Psychology (2006), and the modular trapezoidal face TY Krypton (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Type Tweets
| Type links in the style of Delicious, run by Minneapolis, MN-based Kyle Meyer, who works there for Clockwork Active Media Systems. He blogs at Astheria. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Type UA
| Ukrainian type news site associated with Andrij Type of Andrij Shevchenko. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
The team at Typecache consists of Taro Yumiba (an interactive designer/editor), Akira1975, Shohei Itoh (engineer), Shinsuke Okamoto (engineer), and James Chae. They write: Typecache.com is an online index for type foundries and font sellers, and showcases their collections of type. As typographic literacy grows, the site will hopefully be a useful resource for designers, art directors, and type enthusiasts. Useful subpages: Helvetica alternatives. DIN alternatives. Rounded blunt-cornered fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typedia is a community website to classify typefaces and educate people about them. Think of it like a mix between IMDb and Wikipedia, but just for type. Anyone can join, add, and edit pages for typefaces or for the people behind the type. Site created and run by Jason Santa Maria, Mark Simonson, Liz Danzico, Dan Mall, Mark Huot, Brian Warren, Ethan Marcotte, Stephen Coles, Ryan Masuga, Aaron Gustafson, Garrett Murray, and John Langdon. Blog. News. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typedia: Type News
| Erik Vorhes (Chicago, IL) writes the type news at Typedia. Speaker at TypeCon 2012 in Milwaukee. His work can be viewed at Dribble. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Type forum started in March 2012. It seems that one of the main admin people is James Puckett. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typefoundry
| Personal blog of James Mosley, type historian. This is one of the deepest and most useful type sites in the world. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typegoodness
| Frederik Samuel's showcase of beautiful typographic work. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Unsure what this is. The International Type Index is a free project from a non-profit organisation. The objective is to build a searchable database of all fonts from all foundries, from all the world, to the benefit of both users AND authors. As a non-profit project, TypeIndex.org is 100% user-built : the font database grows through submission of missing foundries, fonts, and reviews. Well, there you have it. There is type news, a type handbook, downloads of free fonts, links to commercial fonts, and a type museum. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
TypeNeu
| Type news for professionals. TypeNeu was originally founded in January 7, 2008 by digital designer Emil Olsson. At the end of 2008, he was joined by Andreas Pihlström. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
TypeOff
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Typefaces created by the collective include Argos, AT Stencil, Disco 3000, Ignaz Text, Ignaz Titling, India Gothic, Janus, Jeans, Pater Noster, Proportia, Sweet Pea, Teppic, Used to Love Her. The designers include the founder Dan Reynolds, and his collaborators David Borchers, Lara Glück, Till Hopstock, and Lukas Schneider. Dan's own typefaces at TypeOff include Ignaz Text (2004, originally called Ignaz Textura, and based on letters he found on a sepulchral memorial outside of St. Ignaz church in Mainz (Germany)), Ignaz Lombard Caps (2004), Ignaz Titling (2004), Janus (2004, a pixel face), Pater Noster (2004-2009, an uncial), Proportia (2004, a geometric sans), Sweet Pea (2004, an octagonal face), and Used to Love Her (2004, experimental). He is working on a Lombard Capitals face (2004), Teutonia Serif (2005, based on Teutonia, a geometric display face that was cut in Offenbach by the Roos & Junge type foundry in 1902; this squarish family is released under the name Mountain at Volcano Type in 2006) and Farewell Street (2004, sans family). Working on this condensed didone (2007). In 2007, he worked with Kobayashi at Linotype to produce a revival and extension of a 1930 sans family of Morris Fuller Benton, and named it Morris Sans (+Small Caps), which could be viewed as an organic version of Bank Gothic. Morris Sans was published in 2008 by Linotype. In 2008, he designed the serif family Martel in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the MA in typeface design at the University of Reading---it covers Latin and Devanagari. He is working on a Condensed Serif. Malabar (2008) won an award at TDC2 2009. Malabar also won the German Design Prize in Gold 2010. See the Linotype version Malabar Etext (2013). Codesigner with Matthew Carter in 2010 of Carter Sans (ITC), a flared typeface. Type events of 2008 reviewed by Dan. Volcano Type link. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin and at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Typetoken is an online magazine (est. 2011) that covers typography: The site showcases, discusses and reviews the world of typography, icons and visual language. A collaboration between graphic designers Mike Sullivan of Mister and Mark Millic of Modularlab, and web developer David Cole of Mayfield Digital, typetoken features contributions from designers around the globe and aims to be a source of inspiration and stimulation for those in the international design community who wish to keep abreast of what's new and exciting in mainstream and experimental typography and iconography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
typgrphy.com
| Active type news and type blog site, in Hungarian. By Jaksa Zsolt (b. 1979) from Budapest. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typies
| Chilean type blog (in English) run by Juan Pablo de Gregorio and Francisca Reyes in Santiago. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Type news by Cybapee, a revival of her earlier page "Typesource by proxy", which in turn was a revival of Typesource.com (or Truetype Resource), Jami's defunct font site. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type news site and typographic activity page with registration. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A German typography site with pages on classification, news, designers, a type glossary, and tutorials. Run by Ralf Hermann. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A typography group on Behance with almost 1,000 members, founded by Giovanni Atalmi. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographer.org
| Yves Peters now runs this page, which was originally set up by David Earls. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typographias
| Type blog by Hugo Charrao from Olhao, Portugal. In English and Portuguese. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typographica
| The official title of Stephen Coles' revival of the Old Typographica is Typographica. Type Reviews, Books, Commentary. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Visually catching gallery of recent type projects in the graphic design realm. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Messages, announcements, discussions, links, a world web site by and for type designers, Typophile is administrated by Jared Benson, Joe Pemberton, and their firm Punchcut in San Francisco. Typophile's moderators are Jared Benson, Joe Pemberton, Christian Robertson, Stephen Coles, Yves Peters, Paul Hunt, Dan Reynolds, Tamye Riggs (now resigned), Zara Evens, Eben Sorkin, and Tiffany Wardle. Regular censorship, but one of the best, if not the best, home for typographers on the web. Some browsers hang even on the newest version of Typophile (sigh). For example, the UNIX/Mozilla combination is not good for Typophile. For direct access, try these: forums, discussions, critique, Twitter, and news and events. Automated type news collector (stopped in 2009). News. If you are on Mozilla/UNIX, this site is useless--it crashes the browser, it does not allow logins, registration does not work, posting a comment is impossible, pictures are invisible, it is just a major mess. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German type wiki. Has a German glossary. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type site in Birmingham, UK. It has a Type Mine, and UK type events calendar. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Very didactic and insightful Spanish language web site devoted to typography and its history. Pages by freelance graphic designer José Ramón Penela from Madrid. Check Penela's comparison of truetype and postscript. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vendor of Adobe, Alias, Red Rooster, Shinn Type, Letraset Fontek and Device fonts. Shinn Type's Morphica exclusively here. In October 2003, Veer acquired Jason Walcott's Jukebox Type Foundry, and adds it to the Test Pilot Collective Foundry whose faces it also sells exclusively. One of the founding members is Calgary-based type designer Grant Hutchinson. One of the sub-collections is called Umbrella. In 2004, they added a few faces from Fountain and Font Bureau. New type announcements. In 2007, Veer was bought by Corbis, a Bill Gates company. Typographers predicted that Veer would disappear soon after that, but this did not happen. Finally, on January 2, 2012, we learn that Veer will not be acquiring and selling licences for new typefaces. The collection will be frozen in time. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At TypeArt 01, he won first prize with Varbur Grotesque (1999-2001, with Natalia Makeyeva), third prize with Joker (1970-2000), and honorable mention with Abetka. At TypeArt 05, he received awards for UniOpt (2002, Kafkaeqsue Op Art display style) and Blooming Meadow (dingbats). In 2009, his 2006 digitization of Anatoly Shchukin's 1968 face Ladoga (+Text, +Display, +Ladoga Armenian) won an award at Paratype K2009. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki he spoke about Ukrainian fonts. At ATypI 2007 in Brighton, his talk is entitled Old Slavic alphabets and new fonts. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke (well, was supposed to speak) on Old Roman Styles and Cyrillic. MyFonts page. Victor's friends: a Ukrainian/Russian news blog. FontShop link. Author of Non-Latin Fonts Cyrillic and Other (2004, Düsseldorf). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Popular image site that has interesting subsections tagged by letter, font, type design, typeface, typo, typography, lettering and alphabet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A collection of wanted fonts via This is Solitaire, Derek Kinsman, André Mooij, Greg Ponchak, Travis Stearns, Loïc Dupasquier, Tom Muller, Jonathon Toon, Allan Yu, Ivan Cruz and Berger & Föhr. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A type and typographic picture news site. Subsection on typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type blog at Mike Cina's YouWorkForThem. New releases. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network is the authoritative collection of materials related to the TeX typesetting system and 
Daily Type is a creative project run by four Russian type designers. Regularly updated page with many new type designs and ideas. Based on a concept of Yury Ostromentsky & Dasha Yarzhambek, the site features designs by Yury Gordon, Yury Ostromentsky, Dasha Yarzhambek, Dmitry Jakovlev and Ilya Ruderman, and was launched in 2005. Daily Type is a creative project run by several Russian type designers. Day by day, they create original typefaces and post their results along with routine. [
German type foundry in Hamburg established in 1986 by Veronika Elsner and Günther Flake. They offer original fonts as well as improved versions of classical fonts. There are many non-Latin fonts as well. In-house designers include Jessica Hoppe (Carpediem), Verena Gerlach (
A nifty and elegant free service by FontShop started in 2008 to make, share and download modular fonts, peppered, of course, with FontShop ads. FontStruct lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks. Once you're done building, FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts, ready to use in any Mac or Windows application. You can keep your creations to yourself, but we encourage users to share their "FontStructions". Explore the 
Juan Pablo De Gregorio Concha is the Chilean designer (b. 1978) of the hip Bodoni face 
Brian Jaramillo's page that highlights remarkable work by type designers, letterers, sign painters, graffiti artists, stone carvers, calligraphers, poster artists, and graphic designers. Its founders are Brian Jaramillo and Ray Frenden (a custom letterer), and frequent contributors include Jonathan Selig, 
MyFonts.com: new links announced. 
Ex-type design student at Reading who created 
Lebanon-based Arabic type designer who runs the Arab type news and blog site called Arabic Typography. 
Born in Budapest in 1957, but Parisian since 1957. Designer and type artist who made many custom and magazine fonts. 
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Another cooperative where one can submit open source fonts. Initial contributors in 2009 are Micah Rich, Caroline Hadilaksono, Haley Fiege, and Andrea Bergamini. The project was started by Micah Rich and Caroline Hadilaksono. Their manifesto: As designers on the web, we have a calling to raise the standards of the web-design world. We're not the only ones who value good design, and it's time for the web world to catch up with it. We understand the challenges that comes with the internet, but with our recent discovery of @font-face, we started getting excited. For those who aren't up to speed, @font-face is a fairly new addition to web styling, letting a designer specify the location of their own font files. Instead of having to design with just a handful of web-friendly fonts, we'll be able to use any typeface we desire. Well, that's our vision, anyway. There are people who design typefaces for a living, and we want them to make money off of something that they do well. This revolution is not a movement against type foundries and type designers; it's quite the opposite. The kind of revolution we want is a change in the way people think about doing business. We want type foundries and typographers to start thinking, "Maybe there's nothing wrong with giving things away sometimes." It's not always about the money, sometimes it's also about making a contribution to the society, in this case, the design community. Giving one typeface away for free will most likely only boost sales, and it's a good deed. We want more people to look at it like that: like they have a responsibility to do something good for their peers. We're not asking type designers and type foundries to sacrifice profit, we're asking them to contribute to a greater cause, to create a community where we not only have a high design standard for print and web alike, but also a community where we're able to share our creations, knowledge, and expertise with our peers and the world. 
Typeoff is an Offenbach-based German type collective, est. 2004 by Daniel John Andrew Reynolds (b. 1979, USA), who blogs happily and frequently. Dan grew up in various cities in the USA, received a BFA in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2002, and moved to Offenbach, Germany, in 2003 to study typography with Professor Fritz Friedl. Dan was an intern at Linotype, and is still affiliated with Linotype. In 2004, he founded Typeoff.de. In 2007 he moved to the University of Reading for graduate studies. 
Great graphic design news page that features new work on a daily basis. Some of it is typographically interesting. By and for art directors. They say this about themselves: TypoJungle is an inspirational resource focused on typography, graphic design, books, exhibitions, minimalism and modernism, updated several times a day. TypoJungle is maintained by PixelJungle Team, it is a continuously evolving live project that showcases the best in international graphic design, print and typography projects. 
Ukrainian designer, b. Kiev, 1957. Graduated from the Senior College for Print and Design in Kiev in 1982, and became art director at Sphera in Kiev. Main type designer at Düsseldorf-based company Unique GmbH since 1998. He designs Armenian, Greek, Georgian, Devanagari, Hebrew, Cyrillic and Arabic fonts. His work: 
