Further Reading
Videos
- Optical Compensation by Thomas Phinney and FontLab
- Type Review Videos
Websites
Other Resource Lists
Curve Math
- A Primer on Bézier Curves — excellent guide on the math of Bezier curves
- Raph Levien’s PhD on Spiro curves
Business
Typography
High quality FontForge sfd source files - Foundries / Collections
- Omnibus
- Ralph Levien
- VTF (some of these)
- Jason Reed
High quality FontForge sfd source files - Typefaces and Fonts
Latin
The MyFonts Foundry Guides are fantastic.
- Frere Jones: Typeface Mechanics 1
- Frere Jones: Typeface Mechanics 2
- Letter-by-letter tutorials
- Adobe: Designing Multiple Master Typefaces
- University of Reading Type Design Intensive Review
- On the Tilde
- ILT: On Diacritics
- Twardoch: Polish Diacritics
- Logotype: Quora logo
- Victor Gaultney: Latin Diacritics
ILT Example Projects:
Greek
Cyrillic
- Learn Cyrillic
- Serbian Cyrillic
- Bulgarian Cyrillic
- What shall be done for Bulgarian Cyrillic .loclBGR
- Paratype Language Help — Cyrillic encodings
- Cyrillic Typography on Facebook
- Cyrillic type design
Arabic
- Khaled Hosney’s FontForge Guide
- Example Project: Arabic Zapfino
- Arabic Typefaces Worth Studying
- Arabic Type Anatomy
Hebrew
Devanagari
- Microsoft Specifications for Devanagari Fonts
- South Asia Language Resource Center at The University of Chicago
- Professor Mahendra Patel
- Dhruvi Tolia Graduation Report
- Sanchit Sawaria Project 3 Document
- Yashodeep Gholap - Designing a Devanagari text font for newspaper use
- Mustafa Saifee - Devanagari Font for Optical Character Recognition
- Vaibhav Singh - Devanagari in multi-script typography
- Virtual Keyboards: lexilogos and branah
Persian
Books
- University of Reading MA Typeface Design Summer Reading List (※Summer reading list for the Master’s Program in Type Design, University of Reading)
- davelab6 Amazon Book List (※Amazon book list)
Title: Detail in Typography (Paperback)
- Author: Jost Hochuli (Author)
- ISBN: 9780907259343
Title: Adrian Frutiger — Typefaces: The Complete Works
- Authors: Heidrun Osterer, Philipp Stamm, Swiss Foundation Type and Typography
- ISBN: 9783764385811
Title: Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use: A Study in Survivals (with ILLUSTRATIONS)
- Author: D. B Updike, Daniel Berkeley (Authors)
Title: Creative Characters Format: Flexibound
- Author: Jan Middendorp (Editor)
- ISBN: 9789063692247
Title: Now Read This: The Microsoft Cleartype collection
- Author: John D. Berry (Author)
Title: The Stroke: Theory of Writing (Paperback)
- Author: Gerrit Noordzij (Author)
- ISBN: 9780907259305
Title: Shaping Text: Type, Typography and the Reader
- Author: Jan Middendorp (Author)
- ISBN: 9063692234
Title: Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students (Design Briefs)
- Author: Ellen Lupton (Author)
- ISBN: 9781568984483
Title: LETTERS OF CREDIT: A view of type design
- Author: Tracy, Walter (Author)
- ISBN: 0879236361 / 0-87923-636-1
Title: The Elements Of Typographic Style: Version 3.1
- Author: Bringhurst, Robert (Author)
- ISBN: 0881792063 / 0-88179-206-3
Title: Type: The Secret History of Letters
- Author: Simon Loxley (Author)
- ISBN: 1845110285
Title: Type Designs
- Author: AF Johnson (Author)
Title: Typography: Macro & Microaesthetics
- Author: Willy Kunz (Author)
- ISBN: 3721203488
Title: Fonts and encodings
- Author: Yannis Haralambous (Author), P Scott Horne (Translator)
- ISBN-10: 0596102429
- ISBN-13: 978-0596102425
Title: The Unicode Standard, Version 7.0.0
- Author: The Unicode Consortium (Author)
- ISBN: 978-1-936213-09-2