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A Visual Overview of Typography (2009)
- ChrisArchitect 7y ago(2009)
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- dang 7y agoAdded. Thanks!
- fabiensanglard 7y agoBeautiful. nit: Would be great to update with SVG drawings. These "old" ones are badly pixelated.
- krsdcbl 7y agoExcellent ressource! Summaries like this often lack depth and detail, but this page really does give a good bird's-eye view of typography & it's terminology.
- devindotcom 7y agoThis is a great resource. And as always if you're interested by this stuff and haven't gone through The Raster Tragegy and Low Resolution, please have at it: http://rastertragedy.com/ http://rastertragedy.com/ Even in these days of high-resolution screens this process of adapting a perfect curve to imperfect pixels is important and really just fascinating.
- aarpmcgee 7y agoThis book, Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton, was one of the first design books I ever read. I have been a designer for about 10 years now. It is a very approachable introduction to typography.
- thomk 7y agoThis is a great resource run by a great guy: https://www.typewolf.com/ https://www.typewolf.com/ A new sample every day, very cool.
- benrbray 7y agoOut of curiosity, can anyone point to a similar resource aimed at languages not written with the Latin alphabet? Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, etc.. I'm curious which "knobs" are available to other languages, and how preferences differ.
- aikinai 7y agoThis isn't necessarily comprehensive or authoritative, but here's a quick overview of Japanese: https://atadistance.net/2017/03/13/japanese-typography-basics-apple-maps-and-the-art-of-using-color-kanji/ https://atadistance.net/2017/03/13/japanese-typography-basic...