Graphic Design: Typography

Codex the journal of letterforms is the beautiful, best-selling print magazine for graphic designers, teachers, students, and everyone who has any interest in fonts, graphic design, lettering, and typography.

This website explores the history of Typography.

Fonts In Use is a public archive of typography indexed by typeface, format, and industry. Graphic Design is documented and examined with the goal of improving typographic literacy and appreciation.

FontStruct is a free online software that lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks.

This website focuses on typography, type design, and lettering. This site aims to make the subject more accessible, and to bring the study of typography to the masses.

Letterer Martina Flor and calligrapher Giuseppe Salerno met at Typo Stammtisch in Berlin and founded this project as a playground to challenge their skills. The adventure aims to explore the capabilities of the two technical approaches where they draw/write a letter or a word responding to a keyword given by a moderator. It takes place online and the visitors are invited to vote for their favourite execution. The result is a wide library of letters to inspire themselves and others, little seeds that might become bigger projects. Enjoy.

Monotype has been a global leader in typeface design for more than 125 years. With more than 18,000 typefaces and growing, the company’s extensive libraries and ecommerce sites are home to many of the most admired and widely used typefaces in world – as well as the next generation of type designs, in both Latin and non-Latin languages.

The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of type, its history and development, its use in the world of print and digital imagery, its designers, and its admirers.

This site was designed as a classroom companion to the book Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students. Included here are lectures, project ideas, handouts, and more to use for teaching.

TYPEFIGHT is an arena for alphabetic altercations, calligraphic contests, consonant combat, figural fisticuffs, semiotic showdowns, and 210 pt. tussles. Two men letter, one man leave.

The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated.

Your mission is simple: achieve pleasant and readable text by distributing the space between letters. Typographers call this activity kerning. Your solution will be compared to a typographer's solution, and you will be given a score depending on how close you nailed it. Good luck!

TypeCon is an annual conference presented by the non-profit Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA. Since the inaugural conference in 1998, TypeCon has explored type for the screen, printing history, Dutch design, type in motion, Arabic calligraphy, the American Arts and Crafts movement, experimental typography, webfonts, and much more. Special events include the Type & Design Education Forum, and an exhibition of international type and design.

A collection of examples of typography submitted by users worldwide.