I love type and these are some of my favorite typography-related resources for graphic designers, marketers, and other creatives.
Check back occasionally, the list is always being added to and updated. And when you have some time, try clicking through link-by-link—there are some real treasures here—some that might not jump out at you at first blush—people, products, tools, organizations, and so on, that will help you dig deeper into an area of interest. In addition to Typography, there are six other lists: Illustration, Marketing/PR, Photography, Print Design, Reference, and Web Design.
Most of the links are resources I use personally and/or discuss in posts here on ideabook.com (no one pays for links except for the obvious ads). Want to suggest a relevant link or a change? Use “Thoughts?” at the bottom of the page. If you find the list useful, I hope you’ll point others to it.
The illustration shows a screen capture of the animated homepage of Mark van Bronkhorst’s TypoBrand website.
Enjoy!
Typography / REFERENCE
- Apple Developer Fonts
- EsperFonto (closed, archived here)
- FontFind
- FontReach
- Fontspring Matcherator
- Identifont
- Microsoft Typography
- Type Scale
- Typetester
- Type Zebra
- The Unicode Consortium
- WhatTheFont
- WordMark It
Typography / SOFTWARE
Typography / COMBINATIONS
- Bold Font Combinations
- Fontjoy
- Fontpair
- Fonts In Use
- Typewolf
- Typ.io
- Typespiration
- Typotheque Font Combinator
Typography / LETTERING ARTISTS / CALLIGRAPHERS
- Raphael Boguslav
- Calligraphy Centre
- Kevin Cantrell
- Dan Cassaro
- Margo Chase
- Michael Clark (1952-2024)
- Becca Clason
- Tim Girvin
- Jessica Hische
- Linzie Hunter
- Carol Kemp
- Jude Landry
- Tom Lane
- Louis Lemoine
- Sebastian Lester
- Yves Leterme
- Nick Sherman
- John Stevens
- Matthew Tapia
- Laura Worthington
Typography / TYPEFACE DESIGNERS
Typography / EXAMPLES / EXHIBITS
Typography / ASSOCIATIONS
Typography / BLOGS
Typography / FOUNDRIES / RESELLERS
- 205TF
- 256
- 3IP Type Foundry
- Adobe
- Altered Ego Fonts
- Autodidakt
- Berthold
- Blambot
- Canada Type
- Cape Arcona Type Foundry
- Capitalics Warsaw Type Foundry
- CastleType
- Characters
- Cloud9 (Type Dept.)
- Comic Book Fonts
- Commercial Type
- Dalton Maag
- Darden Studio
- Dennis Ortiz-Lopez
- The Designers Foundry
- Device Fonts
- DJR
- Michael Doret
- DSType
- Dutch Type Library
- Emigre
- Emtype
- Exljbris
- Feliciano Typefoundry
- Font Bros
- Font Diner
- Fontfabric
- Fontfarm
- FontHaus
- FontShop
- Fontsmith
- Font Bureau
- Font Partners
- The Fontry
- Frere-Jones Type
- GarageFonts
- Google Fonts
- Hoefler & Co.
- House Industries
- Jeremy Tankard Typography
- Just Another Foundry
- KLIM
- Latinotype
- Letterbox
- Letterhead
- Letterror
- Lineto
- Linotype
- Lost Type Co-op
- Louise Fili Type Design
- LucasFonts
- MADtype
- Mark Simonson Studio
- Microsoft Typography
- Monotype
- MVB
- MyFonts
- Okay Type
- Old Fonts
- OurType
- P22
- PampaType
- Parachute
- ParaType
- Parkinson
- Plau
- Porchez Typofonderie
- Process Type
- PSY/OPS
- SelfBuild Type
- Shinntype
- SMeltery
- SparkyType
- Storm Type
- Sudtipos
- Suitcase Type
- T26
- Terminal Design
- Tipo
- TipoType
- Treacyfaces
- Type Invaders
- Miller Type
- Type Supply
- Type Together
- Type Trust
- Typeco
- Typographies
- Typolar
- Typotheque
- Typozon
- Underware
- Village
- Vintage Type
- Volcano Type
- Walden Font
- YouWorkForThem
Hi,
Have you come across this book? I think it’s a really fun way of introducing people to the opportunities with typography: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Typographic-Specimens-Natural-History-Letterforms/dp/1781453098
Hope you enjoy looking at it too.
Karen Bennett
Haha… I like that Karen, thanks for pointing us to it.
Such a great art!! If this was used as a tool to teaching children who are visual learners the results would be amazing!! In my opinion. I personally would have retained more information if it were shown to me as typography. Not to mention more interesting. Thank you for making these resources available. It’s so much fun!!!