Type Love I Love Typography On Snot and Fonts (Luc Devroye, McGill University): “These pages offer over 50,000 entries with information on type design, type designers, the history and choice of fonts and typefaces, the mathematics of type design, font software, and typographic matters in general.” Extreme Type Terminology Video/Vimeo: Erik Spiekermann—Putting Back the Face into Typeface (about new visual languages, design processes, the analogies of music and typography, and why we need better client culture).
Readings Mixing Fonts: Four Techniques for Combining Typefaces, Hoefler & Frere-Jones Type Anatomy/Mixing Typefaces, Ellen Lupton How to Choose a Typeface, Douglas Bonneville (Smashing Magazine) Best Practices of Combining Typefaces, Douglas Bonneville Mixing Typefaces (PDF) 29 principles for making great font combinations, Douglas Bonneville Defining the Designer of 2015 Essential Competencies Trends
Grids The Grid System, Antonio Carusone Aisle One — for all things Grid (An inspirational resource focused on graphic design, typography, grid systems, minimalism and modernism.) Grids, Ellen Lupton We don’t need new fonts… Peter Bil’ak True to type: how we fell in love with our letters Simon Garfield Matthew Carter Andrew Blauvelt Defamiliarization: A Personal History William Drenttel The Typeface of Truth Michael Bierut Design Grids are not Mathematical Grids, Andrew Maher (on Typophile)
Resources Typopedagogical—Denise Gonzalez Crisp’s website to support her textbook
Information Design Edward Tufte Visual Complexity Catalogtree (NL) MOMA Talk to me Data Visualization, Modern Approaches Hyperakt Studio Nicholas Felton
