FONTS + TYPOGRAPHY RESOURCES
BOOKS
- “Elements of Typographic Style” by Robert Bringhurst - “the bible” of typeface design
- “Designing Type” by Karen Cheng
COMMUNITIES
- Reddit r/typography
- typedrawers.com
DEV-RELATED
- Font Surgery Tools
fontmake- opentype.js
- fontkit
- fontools/fonttools - A library to manipulate font files from Python.
- Apple: TrueType Reference Manual
- Apple: About Apple Advanced Typography (AAT)
OTHER
- typedesignresources.com
- Designing Types with FontForge
- How2typography: a primer
- Material Design: Understanding Typography
- This Gist of “getting started in type design”
- Open Type Cookbook
- Interesting Thread about Why Fonts Look Better on Mac
- Font Goggles - open source app for testing font rendering + text shaping. People use this when building fonts for inspecting the font as they work on it.
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