Typography
Beautiful Type - Francis Chouqet and Aurélien Foutoyet showcase incredible typography illustrations and inspiring videos from around the web. It also has a page dedicated to awesome design and type related books.
Fonts In Use Blog – A fantastic idea where designers work out the fonts for use in specific projects or images. Many of the examples are also accompanied by a write-up to give you a true understand as to why that particular font was chosen for the job. This is a great resource for artists unsure about picking fonts for individual projects.
Fonts.com - The site's dedicated learning section provides useful and relevant information about the typographic arts. Here you can learn everything from the foundations of type and practical uses to numbers, signs and symbols and the fundamentals of type technology.
Friends of Type - a type and lettering sketchblog run by Erik Marinovich, Aaron Carámbula, Jason Wong and Dennis Payongayong. These four designers continually upload original typographic design and lettering. There's no messing about either, not a thumbnail in sight just pages full of huge, gorgeous images to inspire you.
Good typography - concentrates on well, good typography. It's a neat little accumulation of type from around the web that's a perfect solution to any inspirational woes.
I Love Typography – One the world's most popular fonts and typography blogs, ILT has amassed its huge following from the wealth of brilliant tips, training advice, news and interviews it features on the subject of type.
Incredible Types - a curated collection and showcase of outstanding typography and design from around the world drawn from 182 creatives from 36 different countries, Incredible Types features 166 pieces of type design to inspire you. The website has a stylish black and white design, each project coming to life in colour when selected.
Playtype - Copenhagen design agency e-Types, so they set up online type foundry Playtype. At this stylish website you can buy fonts and read news, as well as find out details on the Playtype store, a shop where customers can buy digital fonts in a physical space.
Type For You – A blog on typography, with news, interviews and always beautiful font inspiration.
Type token – Showcasing and discussing the world of typography, icons and visual language.
Type worship - Showcases James Clarke's love of all things typography (and he picks some really good ones) as well as reviews and interviews with typography designers. A perfect example of how typography should be done.
Typedia - a brilliant resource for anyone who's interested in Typography but doesn't know where to start. The site is run by many leading designers who simply love type, including Jason Santa Maria, Dan Mall and Liz Danzico. Typedia describes itself 'like a mix between IMDb and Wikipedia, just for type. Anyone can join, add and edit pages for typefaces or for the people behind the type.'
Typohile - Featuring designs on print, on buildings and on just about anything.
Typetoy - a Tumblr blog collecting endless typography inspiration from vintage packaging, recent branding and print design means that whatever typography task you're faced with, TypeToy is the place to go.
Typeverything - a guide to great typography & design, which features type lettering in all shapes and sizes, colors and styles, by a handful of talented artists. The site is clean, organised and simple to use - simply scroll down to take in hundreds of inspirational images.
Typewolf - aims to assist web designers and developers with typography by providing daily inspiration and pointers. The large, non-scaled-down screengrabs clearly show off the fonts used in each design and, usefully, demonstrates fonts in use on actual websites, as well as background info about the font and personal recommendations for similar fonts.
We Love Typography - A brilliant, curated gallery of type-related content, the site is a collaboration between John Boardley (of I love Typography) and Kari Pätilä. With multiple pages of gorgeous typography, you're sure to find inspiration here.
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