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• Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType (AFDKO) - Command-line toolset for building and proofing OpenType fonts (still need a font editor, though)
• Alphabets of Europe (EverType) - Shows alphabets and Unicode values needed to cover each language
• Alt Indie Typo - Project to make a free, open source font superfamily, starting with a linear sans serif. Must apply for access.
• ATypI - ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale), the international typographic society & annual global conference
• Daidala - Jon Coltz’ blog on typography, sadly inactive since the summer of 2006, but still worth reading
• Diacritics - Czech site about proper design of accent marks
• DTL FontMaster - Tools for professional industrial-scale font production
• FontLab Ltd. - Makers of FontLab Studio, TypeTool, Fontographer, and other tools
• For the Love of Type - Gemma O’Brien’s typography blog
• Global Type font database - Very large database of typefaces, searchable by designer, year, foundry, classification, etc.
• Gunnlaugur Briem - type designer Briem’s web site, good tutorials
• I Love Typography - In-depth typography blog from John Boardley & friends
• Microsoft Typography - Microsoft type & fonts – news, links, info
• Omniglot - Writing systems & languages of the world
• Open Baskerville - Project to make a free, open source revival of Fry’s Baskerville
• Panose font classification system - Panose is used for matching similar fonts, and Panose data is present in many fonts
• Polish diacritics (accents) how-to - How to design/implement accents for fonts supporting Polish
• Readability of Text research by Dr. Lauren Scharff - Psychology prof in visual perception, lots of interesting papers
• SoTA - The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SoTA) publishes an annual booklet and hosts the TypeCon conference
• Thomas’ board game collection - Thomas has a lot of board games. Browse his collection here on BoardGameGeek.
• type4screen - blog about type on screen
• TypeCon - Annual typography conference, typically in the US or Canada in June, July or August
• Typographica - Stephen Coles’ typographic blog
• Typophile - typographic community and discussion
• Visual TrueType - Tool for adding “hint” information (instructions, really) to TrueType fonts, to optimize their appearance onscreen. Only for gearheads.
• W3C mailing list archives - Search this to learn what W3C members are thinking about Web font standards