Indices: Software: Font Editors: Glyphs

A Mac OS X only font editor, it comes also in a cheaper limited version called Glyphs Mini
glyphsapp.com

Birdfont is free software program that creates fonts in several formats. It's mainly focused on web fonts.
http://birdfont.org

Patrick Marc Sommer is a designer and productioner based in Berlin. He focuses on print: corporate publishing, book & magazine design and production. Since 2005 he has also been an editor for several journals, including Encore and Slanted (Typo Weblog & Magazin), and a co-editor of the Design made in Germany magazine.

http://www.patrickmarcsommer.com
http://www.designmadeingermany.de/magazin/

Indices : Characters : @

Discussions:
Design of @
@

Articles:
@ at MoMA

Indices : Competitions : TDC2

TDC2 is the annual typeface design competition organized by Type Directors Club of New York and is juried by a group of professionals from various disciplines in or related to type and design.

TDC archive of calls for entries for TDC2
2005 - Call / Results

The Arts University College at Bournemouth

The Arts University College at Bournemouth, established in 1885 as a specialist institution, is a leading University College offering high quality specialist education in art, design, media and performance across the creative industries.

Their website is: http://www.aucb.ac.uk/

Indices : Online Translators

Indices : Writers

Those who write or have written about typography.

Peter Bain
Phil Baines
John D. Berry
Robert Bringhurst
Christopher Burke
Sebastian Carter
Sean Cavanaugh
Stephen Coles
James Craig
Andy Crewdson
David Earls
Friedrich Friedl
Nicolete Gray
Yannis Haralambous
Andrew Haslam
Steven Heller
A.F. Johnson
David Jury
Rob Roy Kelly
Robin Kinross
Willi Kunz
Alexander Lawson
John Lewis
Philipp Luidl
Ellen Lupton
Ian Lynam
Neil Macmillan
Ruari McLean
Philip B. Meggs
Jan Middendorp
Alexander Nesbitt
Gerrit Noordzij
Nicolaus Ott
Yves Peters
Rick Poynor
Dan Reynolds

Indices : Typeface Classification Schemes : VOX-ATypI classification

The main categories of the VOX system are:
The Humanists
The Garaldes
The Realists
The Didones
The Mechanicals
The Lineals
The Inscriptionals
The Scripts
The Hands
The Black letters
The Gaelic types
The Non-Latin Typefaces

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOX-ATypI_classification

Discussion:
Vox ATypI classification in English
Vox a Member of Double Crown Club?

Indices : FAQs : Pronunciation

Following is a list of names and their correct pronunciations (using English orthography).

This is a wiki: please contribute!

Typefaces:

Arnold Boecklin: AR-nollt BOKE-lin [ˈaːnolt bøklˈin]
Antique Olive: on-teek uh-LEEV
Cochin: co-SHAN [koˈʃɛ̃ː]
Elena: EL-en-uh
Eurostile: æu-ro-STI-le (true?)
Fenice: fe-NEE-chay
Fette Fraktur: FET-uh FROK-tour
Forza: fort-zah
Futura: foo-TOOR-ah
Helvetica Neue: Helvetica noy-a
Klavika: KLA-vi-kuh
Neutraface: NOY-trah FACE
Officina: OFF-eh-CHEE-nah
Seravek: SEER-uh-vek
Univers: oo’-nih-VAIR
Verlag: fair-log
Vitesse: vih-TESS (or v-TESS)

Typographers:

Indices : Geography

Africa
Argentina
Australia
Belarus
Bosnia
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
China
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
India
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Malaysia
Mexico
The Netherlands
New Zealand
North Korea
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Russia
Serbia
Slovakia
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Thailand
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States
Vietnam
Wales

Indices : Characters/Terminology : Aesc

The aesc (pronounced "ash") is a ligature of the letters a and e. Archaic in English it is representative of a dipthong vowel sound in certain languages.

Typophile Threads:
Swashy AE & OE
AE preference
æ

See also: Ethel

Indices : Alphabetties

An unorganized group of highly organized women whom all share a love of type and typography.

Tiffany Wardle originally coined the phrase Alphabetty in a private e-mail to a friend, May 5, 2003, and has since used it as a sort of nickname.

Current members are as follows:

Jill Bell
Kristin Dooley
Zara Evens
Calliope Gazetas
Shelley Gruendler
Jemma Gura
Karen Huang
Nicole Larue
Tamye Riggs
Sara Soskolne
Ilene Strizver
Tiffany Wardle
Dyana Weissman

Indices : Publications : Tupigrafia

Publishers: Claudio Rocha (BRA), Tony de Marco (BRA)
Editors: Claudio Rocha, Tony de Marco
Language: Brazilian Portuguese (English translation addendum)

A small format Brazilian typographic magazine packed full of great visual content.

Website: www.tupigrafia.com.br

Indices : Writers : Alexander Lawson

Alexander S. Lawson taught typography at Rochester Institute of Technology from 1947 to 1977. His most well-known work is Anatomy of a Typeface (David R. Godine, 1990), still a much recommended book among type aficionados.

In late 2009 a blog archive was developed to honor & document his life's work.

Died: Sun City, Florida, 2002

ATypI announced its second type design competition, Letter.2. Submissions open on April 4, 2011.

Find out more at www.letter2.org

Indices: Tools: Text Tools

Text Generators
adhesiontext
Designers Toolbox
Greeking Machine
Just Another Test Text Generator
Typeable
Lero-Lero
lipServiceX
LittleIpsum — Latin Text Generator for Mac OS X
Lipsum
Lorem Ipsum Content Generator
MacLorem

Indices: Education

Type design (strictly)

• MA Typeface Design
• Type & Media (1-year postgraduate course) at KABK, Den Haag, The Netherlands
  Teachers: Jan Willem Stas, Erik van Blokland, Peter Verheul, Frank Blokland, Petr van Blokland, Françoise Berserik, Peter Bilak, Robin Kinross, Paul van der Laan, Frans van Mourik, Christoph Noordzij, Just van Rossum, Fred Smeijers
  Language: English