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Type Resources

Below are links to some resources for typefaces and typography.

Typography Reference

  • Using Type in the Digital Realm with Indra Kupferschmid
  • Matthew Butterick’s Practical Typography
  • Typewolf
  • Ellen Lupton's Thinking with Type

Open Source

  • Open Foundry
  • Future Fonts
  • Use & Modify
  • Libre Fonts by Womxn
  • Velvetyne
  • Collletttivo
  • OSP Kitchen
  • League of Movable Type
  • Font Squirrel and webfont generator

Webfont distributors

  • Any foundry website
  • Adobe Fonts
  • Google Web Fonts
    • Should you self-host Google Fonts?

Foundry websites

  • Commercial Type Showcase
  • Colophon Foundry
  • Klim Type
  • Grilli Type
  • Ohno Type
  • Sharp Type
  • DJR
  • Vocal Type
  • Frere-Jones Type
  • Occupant Fonts

Type technology

  • Using @font-face
  • A Variable Fonts Primer
  • typetura.js
  • Variable Fonts
  • Axis Praxis
  • Dinamo Gauntlet
  • Parametric and Variable Typefaces
  • A brief overview of developments in digital type design
  • Interactivity and Animation with Variable Fonts

HTML The Internet Layouts and Structure Responsive Design Image Optimization Variable Fonts and Interpolation Tweening JavaScript jQuery APIs Glossary Type Resources Web Resources Troubleshooting
  • WEB TYPE (RISD GRAPH-2313-01)
  • Thursdays 1:10pm–6:10pm, DC 407
  • Sometimes on Zoom