Typography
Foundries & Portals
- Adobe Type Library
- Huge collection of fonts and information.
- Agfa Monotype
- Large collection of fonts and links.
- Bitstream
- First company to specialise in digital typeface design. Responsible for all those strangely named fonts which look just like well known ones.
- Font Bureau
- Designers/publishers of modern classic fonts.
- FontFont
- Very complete and up to date font "publisher". Good place to find modern but useful fonts. Home of Trixie the best typewriter font.
- ITC
- International Typeface Corporation is a well established "publisher" of new fonts. Responsible for many re-designs of classic typefaces which have become very successful in their own right.
- Linotype
- Bow to the source of classic typefaces and home of Helvetica.
- MyFonts
- Access to thousands of fonts with easy to use search.
Small Foundries
- Atomic Media
- Very nicely designed site for designer's bitmapped fonts.
- Chank
- Small font design business with free fonts.
- Emigre
- Ground breaking foundry and influential design magazine.
- Foam Train
- Grungy style fonts and some good advice.
- House Industries
- Fifties retro style fonts.
- Maniackers
- Japanese site with good collection of free fonts.
- P22
- Typefaces inspired by Art, History and Science.
- T26
- V cool selection of fonts.
- Union Fonts
- Collection of independent young type designers.
- viagrafik
- German designers with nice site plus tons of free fonts.
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Typography
- Surprisingly good collection of links, news and information about digital typography and fonts.
- Fontifier
- Get your own handwriting digitised as a font for your computer.
- Identifont
- Seen a typeface and don't know what's it called? This is the place to find out. Also shows you examples of typefaces if you know the name already. Huge list of font designers and foundries.
- Typographica
- Online typographic magazine.
- Typophile
- An online community for type and design.
- The Untitled Project
- Ever thought about what the urban environment would look like without type? With the aid of photoshop this photographic project explores this idea.
