Typography
Wordmark.it
Wordmark.it detects fonts installed on your system with a small Flash script written by Marko Dugonjić ofType Tester. It also uses Remy Sharp's font detection scipt.
Your wordmark is displayed with installed fonts in batches. You can load more fonts but the more you load the slower the loading may become and cause an alert popping up by the browser.
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Friends of type
The Basics
Friends of Type features original typographic design and lettering – fresh visual content – practically every day, by the four primary contributors. Posts are meant to log ideas, express ourselves, and inspire each other and our readers. The last week of every month we feature a guest designer, someone we admire and think will elevate our work and the site through their contribution.
This is a sketchbook, an archive, a dialogue. The posts are sketches and ideas on visualized language; a collaborative habit born out of the realtime interactions that made us friends in the first place.
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Over 70 FREE typefaces.
Clean, beautiful faces, many of which cannot be found on crap sites like dafont or abstractfonts.com. Enjoy.
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We Love Typography
What?WLT is an image, video, & text ‘bookmarking’ site that is wholly dedicated to type-related content. Think of it as a type-centric and visional delicious, if you like. Membership is by invitation only.
Why?Why, what? If you mean, Why is posting to WLT limited to invited members only? Well, simply because it’s the only way to ensure that all posts are in some way type-related. Open it up to all, & I might as well rename it to weloveporn dot something. Where was I? Oh, yes, why? If, on the other hand, you mean why did I create this site? Because it was so much fun to do, because it was a challenge, & because I like type, typography, lettering, signage, & the slices of inspiration nestled in between. And, in the hope that it will inspire you.
Why do you sometimes use an ampersand, sometimes ‘and’? That’s not very consistent, is it? Consistency is overrated, and, well, if Eric Gill can do it ...
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Typographica
Typographica is a review of typefaces and type books, with occasional commentary on fonts and typographic design. Edited by Stephen Coles, also of
The FontFeed and The Mid-Century Modernist.
Founded in 2002 by Joshua Lurie-Terrell. Redesigned in 2009 by Chris Hamamoto and Stephen Coles.
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I Love Typography
"I love Typography (ILT) was born on August 7, 2007. It exists because I have a passion for typography, type design, and lettering, and for the words born of those disciplines. As a child I wondered why the teacher asked us to draw the letter a as an o with a tail, when in my books, the a’s had an extra bit at the top. This site aims to make the subject more accessible, to bring the study of typography to the masses, if you will. It’s just about impossible to imagine a world without type, but at the same time type’s ubiquity has most of us taking it for granted. So take a closer look. Where do our letters originate?Why do they look the way they do? And what makes for good type and typography?"
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Graphic Definer
Jonathan Howells is the Creative Director of Dinnick & Howells, a branding, design and motion graphics company with offices in London, Engand and Toronto, Canada.
Graphic Definer is an ongoing survey of the “art of typography” plucked from history, from the world we live in today, and from innovations that lead us toward the future. Posts will all relate, in some way, to typographic form, and I hope to keep challenging conventional definitions and expectations!
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Aisle One
AisleOne is an inspirational resource focused on graphic design, typography, grid systems, minimalism and modernism.
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Urban Fonts (FREE)
"See our amazing collection of free fontsand free dingbats. With over 8,000 freeware fonts, you've come to the best place to download fonts. "
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Fontspace (FREE)
Browse through our collection of 14,014 fonts that have been shared bydesigners around the world.
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Abstract Fonts (FREE)
Since starting in 1998 we have grown to have over 12,000 free fonts and about 1 million unique downloads every month. You can view the fonts in many ways: latest, by category, by designer, by recent popularity, popularity climbers and sliders, similarity, best and worst rated, and more!
Each of the fonts has a customizable string preview, character map, member comments, similar fonts as well as a font info tab with all kinds of helpful information about the font.
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Veer Fonts
A Corbis Company.
Choose from over 12,000 fonts, starting at just $10. Classic fonts, new releases from small foundries and independent designers, plus Veer Exclusives you won’t find anywhere else.
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Fontworks (Font Retailer)
type.co.uk is the online arm of Fontworks UK Ltd, part of the Creative Publishing Solutions (CPS) Group who own the Fontshop brand in the UK. With an online presence since 1994 we represent over 100 foundries worldwide, offering a huge range from industry favourites (Adobe, Linotype, Monotype, Berthold, ITC, Bitstream), leading independents (Emigre, Font Bureau, T-26) and cutting edge collections such as Virus, Alias, ACMEFONTS, ShinnType, G-Type, and Device.
We are a leading provider of custom fonts and type design services to the corporate, advertising and design sectors. The company has evolved into a multi-disciplined ‘Type Consultancy’ advising on font licensing and legality, plus many technical and Corporate Identity issues. Contact us today for assistance with your project.
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Phil's Fonts (Font Retailer)
Phil's Fonts evolved from one of the most well known and respected photolettering studios in the industry - Phil's Photo. We carry on the traditions and standards established by its founders. As the state of typography changes in the digital era, Phil's Fonts continues its love affair with beautiful faces, making fine typography available to artists and communicators around the world.
Phil's Fonts, Inc.
P.O. Box 247
Sandy Spring MD 20860
Tollfree: 1-800-424-2977
Telephone: 301-879-9222
Fax: 301-879-9227
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FontShop
Founded by Erik Spiekermann and Neville Brody in 1989, FontShop is the original independent retailer of digital type. We offer more than 150,000 fonts from dozens of expert-selected foundries, including our house brand: FontFont.
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Font Haus
Over 75,000 fonts online.
FontHaus was founded in 1990 by Mark Solsburg and was the first independent font retailer in the US. If you buy from FontHaus, you are buying from one of the largest, most respected and experienced font suppliers in the world and since 1994, was one of the first to sell and deliver fonts online. FontHaus distributes fonts for the world's major font foundries including its own range, Adobe, Bitstream, E+F, Emigre, The Font Bureau, ITC, LucasFonts, Monotype, Linotype, Lucas, MvB Fonts, P22, IHOF, URW and many others. We currently offer more than 75,000 fonts. Read more...
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Fonts.com by Monotype
ABOUT
The Fonts.com™ store from Monotype Imaging offers more than 150,000 font products for you to preview, purchase and download. You can also learn about new typeface releases and discover typographic tips and techniques.
About Monotype Imaging
We help consumer electronics device manufacturers, independent software vendors, creative professionals and leading corporations worldwide connect their products, services, content and brands to consumers and businesses.
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Hamilton Wood Type Museum
Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum
1619 Jefferson Street
Two Rivers, Wisconsin 54241
Email us: hwt@woodtype.org
Call us: 920-794-6272
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Without Walls Wood Type
"Loving the textural beauty and allure of antique Wood Type, I wanted to make available an easy to use, Hi-Res Digital Toolkit for today’s artists and designers. From it’s Classical uses in posters and broadsheets, to the visual delights of the Modernist Avant-Garde, Wood Type has a charm all its own. Have fun! Go & Play! It’s all about the TEXTURES. Digital fonts won’t make this good an impression!"
-Without Walls
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Hatch Show Print
"If you follow music, art, and culture of the American South, sooner or later you're bound to run into the letters, images, and unmistakable "look" of Hatch Show Print. We're one of the oldest working letterpress print shops in America, and over the years our posters have featured a host of country music performers, ranging from Country Music Hall of Famers Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, and Johnny Cash to contemporary stars such as Garth Brooks and Wynonna.
"Advertising without posters is like fishing without worms."
- The Hatch Brothers
We've done it all without losing that irresistible appeal of turn-of-the-century Hatch posters, which were used to promote vaudeville, circus, and minstrel shows across the country. There's a reason why music lovers, Americana buffs, graphic arts collectors and designers, and commercial advertisers of all persuasions continue to turn to Hatch for inspiration. We are, indeed, a tonic for the information age."
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The Walden Font Co.
"We resurrect old typefaces of historical importance and make them available to you.
Each font package includes typefaces unique to their period, plus printer's ornaments, borders, and symbols.It's everything you need to create period pieces for advertising, business use, book design, educational, and recreational purposes.You've seen our fonts featured in National Geographic Books, ESPN Magazine, book covers, in-store ads, concert posters and many other places."
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Underware
For more than ten years the pan-European design collective Underware has been creating versatile fonts, surfing the waves, conducting type workshops, running the radio station Typeradio, throwing cannon balls, experimenting with blood, practicing kamikaze chess; but mostly, they gave flowers for their mothers and turned them into a cover girl. Which resulted in an everlasting smile on their faces.
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The Type Fetish Type Foundry
The Type Fetish
The Type Fetish is the digital type design studio of me, Michael Wallner, located in St. Paul, MN. It was started in 1997, while I was attending the College of Visual Arts, as an outlet for my interest in making typefaces for my school projects. In 2002 I began to sell my work throughMyFonts.com where I continue to this day.
Over time my interests have grown from the destructed faces of Universally Corrupt and Broken Vows to a cleaner, more sophisticated Brogue and Grimm. I am currently working on my first text weight typeface that I hope to have ready sometime in 2011.
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Suitcase Type Foundry
"Suitcase Type Foundry is an independent type foundry, founded by Tomas Brousil in 2003 in Prague, Czech Republic. We are specialised in the design and digitisation of quality fonts for professional use. Apart from retail type we also produce custom typefaces for corporate use and other specific purposes on commission.
Our library offers over 200 fonts. All have been designed with utmost care, meticulously kerned and hinted, and include all accents necessary for setting most Latin script languages."
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Sudtipos | Fonts
Buenos Aires, Argentina
E-mail: sudtipos@sudtipos.com
Teléfono: 00 54 11 4553-7075
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PSY/OPS Type Foundry
"PSY/OPS showcases the work of type designers from San Francisco and beyond. The focus of the collection is on text & display systems which are well grounded but which also bring something new and different.
The concepts originate on the drawingboards and monitors of historians and experimentalists, dedicated veterans and inspired laymen. Once selected, the ideas are refined, balanced, and perfected by obsessive sets of hands and eyes in a secluded office in downtown San Francisco.
Why Psychological Operations? Because type is a powerful behavior modification tool. Transparent to the consumer; transcendent to the designer who knows how to use it.
We hope you like what you see on the site, and that you take a moment to get on our private mailing list and send us your comments."
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P22 Type Foundry
P22 type foundry creates computer typefaces inspired by Art, History, and sometimes Science. P22 is renowned for its work with museums and foundations to ensure the development of accurate historical typefaces that are fully relevant for today's computer user. In addition to its in-house font design, P22 now licenses several new type designs from around the world. Finally, we're sure you agree that no type foundry is complete without its own record label and plenty of merchandise.
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OurType.
Fred Smeijers is a first generation digital type designer, but his interests and practice are rooted in the years before the digital technologies became crucially important.
Now he has thirty years of involvement behind him - with letterforms in general,
and with the design and use of type, and its history. Smeijers is internationally known for his writing and lectures, but above all for his type designs. These encompass the custom-made as well as those that are commercially available. For Smeijers flexibility is very important, as the versatility of his oeuvre testifies. The wish to operate in a more open and flexible way encouraged Fred Smeijers and Rudy Geeraerts of FontShop Benelux to launch the font publishing label: OurType."
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Misprinted Type
ABOUT
"Misprinted Type is online since 1998. It is my playground! It started at first as a way to simple distribute the fonts I was creating back then. Later on I decided to also put some collages and drawings... Today Misprinted Type is where I put my ideas together, either in the form of a simple text, a collage, a drawing or a typeface. Everything you see here is my personal works and projects, there is no client, no brief, nothing... Call it design, illustration, art or a waste of time, for me its a theraphy, a hobby and what makes me happy.
Hope you enjoy this place as much as I do!
recife"
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