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On the Web
- Richard Hunt, Typographer - Biography and resume of Richard Hunt, Canadian typographer, consultant and typography instructor. Includes teaching philosophy and links to Archetype document formatting, font creation and modification typography site.
- Barry Deck - Personal site of typographer Barry Deck, major typographic influence of the 1990's.
- MyFonts - John Baskerville - Information about the printer, type designer, typographer, calligrapher, stone carver and book designer.
- Large-Scale Registration of Domains with Typographical Errors - A case study documenting over 5000 registrations by notorious cybersquatter John Zuccarini. Most are typographic variations on well-known names, most provide sexually-explicit content and popups, and some are variants on sites typically used by children.
- Interview with Robert Bringhurst - The poet and typographer talks about his book, "The Elements of Typographic Style". From TypeBooks.
- typogRaphic - Exploration and experimentation between typography and imagery.
- Typographic - Information on typography from 3500 B.C. to the present day, including evolution, timeline, anatomy, image gallery, studies, glossary and related information.
- Le Typographe - Magazine en ligne consacré à la typographie, ressources utiles et forum.
- Typographical Errors in Library Databases - A list of the most likely typographical errors to be found in OPACs and other library databases. Provided by Terry Ballard.
- Typographer.org - Digest of typography news and commentary from David John Earls and Yves Peters.
Wikipedia Articles
- Bruce Rogers - Bruce Rogers (May 14, 1870 - May 18, 1957) was an American typographer born in Lafayette, Indiana. He is one of the best known and regarded typographers of the twentieth century.
- History of Western typography - Contemporary typographers view typography as craft with a very long history tracing its origins back to the first punches and dies used to make seals and currency in ancient times. The basic elements of typography are at least as old as civilization and the earliest writing systems—a series of ...
- Typographic Workers Trade Union - Typographic Workers Trade Union (in Spanish: Sindicato de Obreros Tipógrafos) was a trade union of typographers in Spain. Founded in 1897, it was the first Catholic trade union in the country.
- Word spacing - Word spacing in typography is the process of increasing or decreasing the space between words. Typographers may modify the default spacing of a letter in a body of type to aid readability and copy fit, or for aesthetic effect, but this does not alter word spacing alone, and is rarely done.
- Apple Advanced Typography - Apple Advanced Typography (AAT) is Apple Computer's computer software for advanced font rendering, supporting internationalization and complex features for typographers, a successor to Apple's little-used QuickDraw GX font technology of the mid-1990s. It is a set of extensions to the TrueType outline font standard, with similar smartfont features to Adobe and Microsoft's OpenType font format, and the open source Graphite.