Some useful Typography Websites

Commercial Foundries

• Adobe Fonts - Adobe has a vast range of fonts. It purchased and closed down typeKit.com
• Berthold - One of the largest and oldest
• Monotype (Bitstream) - One of the earliest digital type foundries, purchase through myfonts.com
• Linotype - Largest commerical type foundry in the world

Major Font Resellers (the amazon.com's of the type world)

• fonts.com - Monotype's outlet. Monotype, by the way, owns most major font outlets.
• myfonts.com - Bitstream's outlet

Minor Font Resellers/Design Houses

• chank.com - Chank Diesel font designer site
• dardenstudio.com - Nice fonts, informative EULA (End User License Agreement)
• emegre.com - Local type foundry in Berkeley
• fontbureau.com - Fairly large foundry in Boston, MA
• fontcraft.com - Specializing in historical poster fonts
• fontfont.com - Claim to have the world's largest collection of original, contemporary typefaces
• fonthaus.com - font reseller with 45,000 fonts
• fontspring.com - 69,000 fonts, 14,000+ families with easy licensing
• fontshop.com - Erik Spierkermann and Neville Brody's online shop
• houseind.com - prolific type designers
• lukasfonts.com - Luc de Groot's online shop
• typography.com - Big time NYC type designers, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones shop
• Crazy Diamond Design - Designers of historically accurate fonts used in the Harry Potter films
• typewolf.com blog - links to lots of small type houses

Magazines & Blogs

• ilovetypography.com - blog
• MyFonts newsletter - Monthly email newsletter featuring new fonts. Very nice layouts with different faces.
• typeforyou.org - blog
• typographica.org - Type reviews, books, and commentary

Free Fonts

Remember, you get what you pay for...

• 1001fonts.com
• dafont.com
• fontspace.com
• fontsquirrel.com - good webfonts and font kits

Information about type

• Collection of useful links about type, like glossaries, bibliographies, file formats, and character sets at Adobe.com
• Luc Devroye's typography pages - large list of typography and font resources
• Type 101 on fonts.com
• TypeCulture - academic resource for design students, educators and professionals
• Wikipedia article on Typography

Font tools

• Extensis Suitcase - Font organizing software
• FontLab Studio - The leading type design tool. US$649 list.
• Identifont - Identify fonts from their features
• WhatTheFont - Upload an image of a font to identify it

Linotype, the film

"Linotype: The Film" Official Trailer from Linotype: The Film

The Creation of a Printing Type

A silent-era film featuring the great Fredric W. Goudy, preeminent American type designer