10 Incredible Sites to Improve Your Typography Skills
I think most would agree that typography is a difficult skill to master. A few months ago, we showed you some tools and tutorials to improve your web typography. While these are very useful, tools are only half the battle. Having a strong foundation of typographic knowledge is crucial. In this post, there are 10 sites that will help you improve your type skills through learning about typography. I would suggest following all of them if possible.
Typesites
Typesites is an excellent source of typography inspiration. It is a weekly showcase of websites with interesting typographic design.
Typographica
Typographica is a review of typefaces and type books, with occasional commentary on fonts and typographic design.
I Love Typography
I Love Typography is probably one of the most popular blogs on the subject. It’s designed to inspire its readers and make people more aware of the typography that’s around them.
Typophile
Typophile is a community driven typography site full of useful articles and resources.
Upscale Typography
Upscale Typography is loaded with useful typographic tips, new releases, pre-release notifications, historic references, trends and everything else typographic.
Type for You
Type for You is a blog that covers all things typography.
Typography Served
Typography Served is another great resource for typography inspiration. All of the work displayed is streamed from the Behance Network.
We Love Typography
We Love Typography is a social bookmarking site for typography focused media. Tons of inspiration here.
The Font Feed
The Font Feed is a blog dedicated to typography.
Typographer.org
Typographer.org is another blog with articles focused on typography. It is co-written by David and Yves Peters.
15 comments
Rebecca Bryant
July 16, 2009Some great links.
http://typornography.blogspot.com/ is quite a good one, it’s more inspiring than anything, but I’ve found some beautiful things there in the past.
As well as at http://www.swiss-miss.com/ It’s not strictly typography, but there’s a strong love for the Swiss Style, and that’s a good basis for anyone learning about type
fooliganAD
July 16, 2009shot for the post! ilovetypogrpahy.com still my fav.
Edgar Leijs
July 16, 2009This is what i need, because i’m really about to expand my skills in Typo! Thank you
Al
July 16, 2009Great list of resources, thanks!
I do have one little request: There are so many great sites out there that I don’t have the time to thoroughly read every site linked in a post like this. It would be incredibly helpful if a feed URL was listed with each site or, even better, an OPML file of them all was provided.
Sam Harding
July 16, 2009Thanks for this list, i’m useless with typography most of the time. Will get into reading them =)
De-Light
July 16, 2009I was really impressed by this ten sites, looking for a designer who can do sites like this (+corporate identity).
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Zach Krasner
July 16, 2009Good article, featured at the Zach Krasner Times
Kayla
July 16, 2009Excellent post. I haven’t heard of a few of these. I also use Typechart.com for inspiration, although its primary purpose is to save time when choosing typography.
monica
July 16, 2009excellent post. I’m sort of obsessed with typography..I love typography is one of my favorites sites..:)
ynw
July 17, 2009I am not a designer but quite obsessed with typography. Lovely post.
9swords
July 17, 2009Yeah, word.
Ashely Adams : Sticker Printing
July 18, 2009Thanks for the post! I do refer a lot to “Typesites” and “I Love Typography”. But I also believe that simply going through these sites and blogs cannot help you to master the skill of typography. They might help you to develop a foundation of typographic knowledge but you need to experiment. The more you do it the more you can master the skill.
J. Pedro Ribeiro
July 19, 2009Great list! There’s another site that is really interesting for typography showcases called TypeInspire: http://typeinspire.com/.
clickforwebdesign
August 28, 2009would like to suggest http://www.clickforwebdesign.com/typography-typographie-blog.html for this category
Mark50
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