Falling within the Category of Typography
- The Dark Art Of Pricing
- Jessica Hische gives some fantastic guidance for pricing. An excellent read for any freelancer!
- The Penitent Peddler
- I have created a font pairing. Perhaps you will too?
- Phaeton Giveaway
- Typedia is giving away a copy of Phaeton. All you need to do is perform one good deed!
- Keming
- Typography is the soul of wit.
- Typedia
- At long last, the world has a typography wiki, and an amazing one at that! Visit now, join up, and start sharing your knowledge!
- LetterCult
- Draw-droppingly clever typographical concepts and execution. Via Stanislaus.
- Victorian Pharma Envelopes
- I wish the advertising I got from modern pharma companies was this regal. A few comment spams from these guys would class any article right up!
- Words Are Pictures
- The impressive typographical illustration of Craig Ward.
- The Layer Tennis Season Finale
- Two matches going on simultaneously, with four veteran pixel pushers: Inman vs Glass, and Koxvold vs Hutchinson !
- Spam One-Liners
- Linzie Hunter takes the headlines from her junkmail and beautifully hand-letters them. Via Drawn.
- The Avenir Typger
- Sutter has submitted his excellent typographical tiger to Threadless. If you're like me, and you want one, go vote for it!
- The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies
- Alas Haberule — I hardly knew 'ye. Via Drawn
- Henry Needle & Sons
- Finally — a solution for carrying my keys, phone, wallet, mojo, thermos, and change of clothes without a cumbersome bag!
- The Lions Roar
- Gorgeously animated type in this video... worth watching even though it cuts off at the end.
- 15 Tips for choosing good Text Type
- Some very helpful advice. And hey — another link I stole from Rob!
- Times Mastheads
- The evolution of this thing is just wonderful to see. The third one is probably my favorite, though I suppose that one only accomodates a slow news day... it's HUGE. From Smallest Photo.
- Origins of Letterforms
- Where do all these CRAZY letterforms come from? Robbed from Rob (The link... not the letterforms).
- Ampersand Biography
- Learn more about this intriguing character! Lifted from Coudal.
- 20 Best License-Free Fonts
- Ooo... there are some real lookers in this bunch. Via airbag.
- Type Workshop
- Finally, a workshop you can't lose a finger in. And it's an excellent type resource to boot! Win/Win!
- Designer's Toolbox
- Need an envelope size? How about Character codes? A snippet of CSS? Or perhaps the measurements of a CD label? Well, you should probably look here first.
- Polite Winter
- A back-and-forth visual wrestling match between two very talented illustrators.
- Thinking With Type
- The on-line companion to the book Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students, by Ellen Lupton. I need not justify it further - we can all learn something.
- Arial vs. Helvetica
- Take the test: can you spot the difference between Arial and Helvetica?
- Ars Thanea
- A lovely agency site with a clever intro and excellent work.
- Playground Blues
- Personal Site of Nathan Borror. Photos, a unique array of projects, a healthy weblog, and an impressive array of resources make one rich site. A great example of designing with CSS, too.
- Newsmap
- Definitely the hippest way to present the news I've ever seen. Sort by country or article type. Link stolen from the irrepressible Inman
- Encyclopaedia of Typography and Electronic Communication
- Although garnering typographical advice from a site with poor typography is a pretty bad idea, these are just definitions, after all. There's some awfully interesting tidbits of information here.
- Frontmedia.co.uk
- An extremely "user-centric" approach to navigation. The site wants to know what you want, and wants to get you there. A simple idea, but rarely seen.
- Russian Avant-Garde Book
- An all-encompassing presentation. Details the history of the Russian Avant-Garde, in three major periods, with well-displayed samples of work.
- BlamBot - Comic Fonts
- This is a great resource if you need an idea of how to handle text in comics.
- Rigsby Design
- A great way to display work, stretching flash across the entire browser window to make sure your navigation is always in the corners.
- Vodafone
- One of the best "informational graphics" sites I've ever seen. Just a flawless use of flash, combined with interesting and well-informed content.