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ILLUSTRATORS / DESIGNERS
Allen Crawford‘s “Song of Myself”
Seb Lester brilliant calligrapher
Elvis Swift calligrapher/illustrator extraordinaire
Dana Tanamachi Queen of chalkboard lettering
TYPOGRAPHERS
Laura Worthington many calligraphic and historic genre fonts
TYPOGRAPHY
Free Fonts! A recent selection of 19 free fonts
Font Classification: Allan Haley
Test drive your fonts at Wordmark
Type Infographics Some amusing, some with flawed details
Type Connection Typography dating game; can you make a match?
Using Photoshop to match a font from a photo you took of typography
BOOK DESIGN BLOGS
VIDEOS
Calligraphic tools and techniques
VeryFastHistoryofTypography by Ben Barrett-Forrest
Jessica Hische speaks (look at 25 minutes on in)
Jon Contino’s BBQ sauce handlettering for Texas Monthly
Glen Weisberger hand letters with brush
Explore Syracuse: Cayetano Valenzuela
Helvetica; the movie
James Victore shows NYC signage
Width tool in Adobe Illustrator
Marian Bantjes TED Talk
Stefan Sagmeister at TED talks and talks and talks
Sagmeister hommage
MISCELLANY
AIGA The Ultimate Typography Quiz
Color Gamut explained
Color palette utilities
Comprehensive article on brush lettering and calligraphy
Dimensional Type article
Gestalt Principles in Web Design
Gig Poster trends in Print magazine
Online Bezier curve game with tutorials: suck at pen tool? Try this.
Inventive uses of display type in advertising
Photoshop Etiquette Basic rules of using the program, including type handling.
LECTURES
Typography Classifications: Typography.lo