The movie title stills collection is a great site created by Christian Annyas. This site features typography from the opening credits of movies plus the ending. There are many movies available, with some great opening titles.

Sevigne typeface by Reserves is a highly refined, light-weight couture inspired face containing over 130 unique ligatures and multiple stylistic alternate sets.

View the rest of the ligatures and additional preview images at our Reserves Flickr photostream.

Herbert Spencer Pioneers of Modern Typography has been the encyclopedia of Avant Guarde typography for many decades. Featuring such inspirational pioneers as, El Lissitzky, Theo van Doesburg, Alexander Rodchenko, Jan Tschichold. The book documents the rise of this movement from the the publication of Marinetti’s Futurist manifesto, to New Typography.

It features 161 b/w and color work reproductions from the beginnings of the twentieth-century avant-garde typography movement. They are often simplified to two of three tones which enables the form to come to life on the page, but are printed on a variety of paper stocks.

Spencer knows the subject of modern typography well. He was the editor of Typographica, The Penrose Annual, art director of Lund Humphries (the publisher of the book), and a professor of graphic arts at the Royal College of Art from the late 70s to mid 80s. This book is a journey into the world of modern typography with Spencer at the helm.

Read the rest of this article plus more pictures at designers-book.com.

A designer would always choose Helvetica over Arial, but a lot of people confuse the two. Yes, if you look at them quickly you could mistake them but with a little help they are pretty easy to tell apart. A little background on the the faces.

Helvetica was designed in 1957 by Max Miedinger, Helvetica’s design is based on that of Akzidenz Grotesk (1896), and classified as a Grotesque or Transitional sans serif face. Originally it was called Neue Haas Grotesque; in 1960 it was revised and renamed Helvetica (Latin for Switzerland “Swiss”).

Arial was designed in 1982 by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders for Monotype (not Microsoft), it’s classified as Neo Grotesque, was originally called Sonoran San Serif, and was designed for IBM’s bitmap font laser printers. It was first supplied with Windows 3.1 (1992) and was one of the core fonts in all subsequent versions of Windows until Vista, when to all intents and purposes, it was replaced with Calibri.

Below you can find some resources on how to spot the difference between the two faces. If you think you’re good enough to tell the two apart you can take some comparison tests.

Great idea called The Daily Drop Cap is an ongoing project by typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische. Each day (or at least each WORK day), a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap will be posted for your enjoyment and for the beautification of blog posts everywhere. To use a Daily Drop Cap on your site or blog, follow the instructions in each post and read about their usage limitations. You can get your drop caps at dailydropcap.com.

No component of graphic design has attracted as much interest or inspired as much innovation in recent years as lettering and type. These foundations of design, once the exclusive domain of professional typographers, have become an essential starting point for anyone looking for a fresh way to communicate. While there exist many maxims and practical guidelines for executing specific design styles and processes, what makes lettering and type endlessly fascinating is the flexibility to interpret and sometimes even break these rules.

Lettering & Type is a smart-but-not-dense guide to creating and bending letters to one’s will. More than just another pretty survey, it is a powerful how-to book full of relevant theory, history, explanatory diagrams, and exercises. While other type design books often get hung up on the technical and technological issues of type design and lettering, Lettering & Type features the context and creativity that shape letters and make them interesting.

Authors Bruce Willen and Nolen Strals of design studio Post Typography examine classic design examples as well as exciting contemporary lettering of all stripes—from editorial illustration to concert posters to radical conceptual alphabets. Lettering & Type is ideal for anyone looking to move beyond existing typography and fonts to create, explore, and use original or customized letterforms. This latest addition to Princeton Architectural Press’s best-selling Design Briefs series features a foreword by Ellen Lupton and hundreds of images and examples of work by designers, artists, and illustrators, including Marian Bantjes, Matthew Carter, Emigre, Ed Fella, Sibylle Hagmann, House Industries, Margaret Kilgallen, Christoph Niemann, Steve Powers (ESPO), Stefan Sagmeister, Christian Schwartz, Alex Trochut, Underware, James Victore, and many more. Throughout the book interviews with type designers, artists, and graphic designers provide real-world perspective from contemporary practitioners.

Get more information on the book at letteringandtype.com.

Are you a graphic designer? Do you know the difference between a font and a typeface? Do your eyes light up when conversations turn to ems, kerning, and baseline grids? If you answered yes to these questions, then The Typography Manual for the iPhone and iPod Touch is for you!

The Typography Manual has several useful features and resources for designers, including a visual type anatomy glossary, a font size ruler, an em calculator, and enough content to fill a 60-page book. It has all the essentials of a desk reference in a regularly updated pocket resource.

Buy the App from the iTunes Store now.

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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.

We love type, and we have a burning desire to learn as much as possible about typefaces: where they come from, who made them, and why they look the way they do. We want everyone to be able to share in that rich knowledge and enjoy the art and artists of type design. Over time, we think Typedia could grow into a great educational resource for people to learn about their favorite typefaces and discover new ones.

TYPEDIA WAS CREATED BY:

Jason Santa Maria, Mark Simonson, Liz Danzico, Dan Mall, Mark Huot, Brian Warren, Ethan Marcotte, Stephen Coles, Ryan Masuga, Aaron Gustafson, Garrett Murray, and John Langdon.