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November 2006

JustFontIt site

This is the site for the JustFontIt project, a new utility for font professionals. In addition to GUI font editors, JustFontIt provides a wide range of features, required to quickly bring the fonts to a sellable state. This includes through font testing against effective criteria what allows to pinpoint typical font bugs, ability to make safe patches in Type1 fonts, generating clean font metrics, conversion between Type1 Binary and Type1 ASCII formats, generation of customizable lists of font properties and more.

Textaxis

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Textaxis : Obsesión tipográfica que impide la correcta lectura de un texto, desviando la atención hacia los aspectos formales de las letras.

Helvetica vs. Arial

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Move your Helvetica character left and right with the mouse, beat Arial by jumping on it using the mouse button. Helvetica moves faster in flight.

spiekerblog | scroll down all the way!

Erik Spiekermann is information architect, type designer (ff Meta, itc Officina, ff Info, ff Unit, LoType, Berliner Grotesk et al) and author. He was founder (1979) of MetaDesign, Germany’s largest design firm with offices in Berlin, London and San Francisco. In 1988 he started FontShop. He holds an honorary professorship at the Academy of Arts in Bremen, is board member of ATypI and the German Design Council, and president of the istd International Society of Typographic Designers. In July 2000, Erik left MetaDesign Berlin. He now lives and works in Berlin, London and San Francisco, designing publications, complex design systems and more typefaces.

XHTML Character Entity Reference

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This page contains the 252 allowed entities in HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0, as outlined in section 24 of the official HTML 4 specifications, published by the W3C. If you're new to this site, you can find help on how to use this reference.

Typograf - font management for OpenType,TrueType and Type 1 print-preview-load

The Typograf top class font manager * previews all OpenType, TrueType, PostScript Type 1 and printer fonts, * displays all font properties (typeface classification, kerning pairs, file data, copyright...), * views character set, keyboard layout, zoom view, * finds similar fonts and compares several fonts, * prints fonts in many ways and * manages fonts in database and font groups.

October 2006

Roadgeek Fonts: Background Information

For that reason, I created the Roadgeek fonts in 2000, based on FHWA specifications. The original Roadgeek 2000 fonts were released before I was completely done with them, but they've seem to caught on. I didn't want to go back to finish those fonts for fear of having competing, possibly not-quite-compatible, versions of these fonts floating around the web.

MICKEYAVENUE.com - Pirate Fonts

Search engine queries for the "Pirates of the Caribbean font" have lead many a font-seeker to this site. Unfortunately, it would appear that the logos for the films and theme park attractions use custom designed lettering rather than off-the-shelf fonts.

Why Sassoon ?

Sassoon® typefaces were researched and the findings published by handwriting expert Dr. Rosemary Sassoon and since 1987, in partnership with Adrian Williams a whole range of font products for reading and handwriting education in schools has been developed. They cater for National Literacy Strategy Guidelines used in UK schools.

Typotheque, digital type foundry

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Typotheque is a type foundry based in The Hague, the Netherlands, developing and marketing original fonts for the Mac and PC in Western, Central European (CE), Greek, Cyrillic as well as OpenType Std and OpenType Pro encodings. Our commitment is to continue the traditions of independent type foundries, contributing our tiny bit to the continuous sequence of history of typography, creating quality typefaces that reflect our time and serve its needs.

Type.co.uk : Fontbox pdfs

Many of the PDF files above are representations from the FontBox, a new, more flexible medium for sourcing and selecting type. This unique unit stores showings from each of the manufacturers we represent - building ultimately into a complete reference library of fonts and services. These listings will provide a showing from each of the manufacturers we represent - building ultimately into a complete reference library of fonts and services, all of which can be stored in the FontBox: a new, more flexible medium for sourcing and selecting type.

Proxima Software - Font Manager for Windows, Keyboard, Language and Desktop Clock Tools

FontExpert 2006 enables you to preview and manage both installed and uninstalled typefaces, plus examine your system for font errors. You can display the list of installed font faces, customizable font samples and advanced font properties. The program allows you to print different types of reports, and offers many printing options, $59. ( font expert )

Hoefler & Frere-Jones | Online Catalog

Since 1989, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones have helped some of the world's foremost publications, corporations, and institutions develop their unique voice through typography. Their body of work includes some of the world's most famous designs, typefaces marked by both high performance and high style.

Adobe Store - Adobe Type Library Reference Book, OpenType Edition

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A handy visual reference for selecting typefaces The Adobe® Type Reference Guide is a 300-page hardcopy book that contains showings for all Adobe Type Library fonts, as well as useful information about the OpenType font format, typographic classifications, and character sets.

Linotype Font Products - Brochures

Sift through all of the Linotype library’s typeface families by using this simple reference work; hot off the press, this book is the new “bible” of Linotype fonts! The book’s classically designed pages are bound together inside a beautiful hardcover, with light embossing on the front and spine. Linotype’s typeface families are shown grouped together in the following seven categories: Sans Serif, Serif, Script and Brush, Decorative and Display, Uncial and Blackletter, Pi and Symbol, Central European and Non-Latin.

Comic Book Fonts | Comic Craft

Whether you're Making, Understanding or Reinventing comics, you'll need a comic book font that makes your comic book—or comic book about making, understanding or reinventing comic books—look like a, um, comic book. Yes, it's all very well writing about the Invisible Art of Making Comics, but if you can't read about the Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels, they'll still be secrets, won't they? That's why Scott McCloud came to us to create the official "Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels" comic book font, or as we like to call it: McComicBookFont.

Vitaly Friedman's Notebook: 25 Best Free Quality Fonts

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Recently I’ve been browsing through the Net searching for the best license-free fonts which would fit as a serious heading for a serious online-presentation. Fortunately, I wasn’t the first web-developer, who was trying to find such fonts.

Font Tester - Online Font Comparison Tool - Preview Fonts - Compare Screen Type

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Font Tester is a free online font comparison tool. It allows you to easily preview and compare different fonts side by side with various CSS font styles applied to them. It is very useful for web developers who are looking for just the right font/style/color to use in their pages. To use it all you have to do is simply enter the text you would like to preview, modify the various CSS properties until you find a style you like, and then click on the Get CSS Code button to generate all the necassary CSS code to reproduce those styles in your webpage.

September 2006

Read Regular

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Designed to assist dyslexic readers, Read Regular is a typeface designed by Dutch designer Natascha Frensch. Letterforms like b and d are typically drawn as the same character and then just swapped. Read Regular differentiates these forms by making each unique.

AIGA - They're not fonts!

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It seems that just about everyone is using the word “font” when they are referring to a typeface. “Fonts” and “typefaces” are different things. Graphic designers choose typefaces for their projects but use fonts to create the finished art.

Free Secure Online Storage — Xdrive

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Get 5GB of FREE space, and save a secure copy of your photo collection, home videos, music, and any other digital file! X drive / Xdrive

SMeltery

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SMeltery est la fonderie de Jack Usine, /typo /graph /iste bordelais.