A Shared Encyclopedia of Typefaces Typedia is a resource to classify, categorize, and connect typefaces. “In a nutshell, Typedia is a community website to classify typefaces and educate people about them. Think of it like a mix between IMDb and Wikipedia, but just for type. Anyone can join, add, and edit pages for typefaces or for the people behind the type.”
The way I relate the difference between typeface and font to my students is by comparing them to songs and MP3s, respectively (or songs and CDs, if you prefer a physical metaphor).
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We're pleased to introduce the winners of Top 10 Handsome Fonts (April 2007 Issue). It wasn't going to be easy. How could it be, with a huge amount of typefaces to choose from? After rating the fonts on originality and appearance, we voted for our favorites.
Get a better understanding of the process of logo creation with resources, tips, and discussion.
Type. In your lifetime you've seen billions of letters and millions of words, yet you might never have consciously noticed the typefaces you read. Type is important because it's an unconscious persuader. It attracts attention, sets the style and tone of a document, colors how readers interpret the words, and defines the feeling of the page - usually without the reader recognizing a particular typeface.
If anyone's ever seem me talk at conferences, they'll know that I'm a bit of a fan of the rounded font. It's a bit of a Web 2.0 fetish as well. Personally at the moment I like the uniform stroke widths of VAG Rounded, but this looks pretty interesting...
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We are a diverse group of type designers, developers, foundries, and aficionados who are working together to promote typefaces as creative works and to advocate their legal protection as intellectual property.