A Visual Overview of Typography (2009)(thinkingwithtype.com)

143 pointsby scghostvor 6 Jahren9 comments

A Visual Overview of Typography (2009)

http://thinkingwithtype.com/letter/

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This 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/

Even in these days of high-resolution screens this process of adapting a perfect curve to imperfect pixels is important and really just fascinating.

benrbrayvor 6 Jahren

Out 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.

aikinaivor 6 Jahren

This isn't necessarily comprehensive or authoritative, but here's a quick overview of Japanese:

https://atadistance.net/2017/03/13/japanese-typography-basic...

aarpmcgeevor 6 Jahren

This 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.

thomkvor 6 Jahren

This is a great resource run by a great guy: https://www.typewolf.com/

A new sample every day, very cool.

fabiensanglardvor 6 Jahren

Beautiful.

nit: Would be great to update with SVG drawings. These "old" ones are badly pixelated.

krsdcblvor 6 Jahren

Excellent 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.

ChrisArchitectvor 6 Jahren

(2009)

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dangvor 6 Jahren

Added. Thanks!