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Layout Design Color Resources Typography Tutorials References General         Dictionary of Terms

LAYOUT

DESIGN

COLOR

 

RESOURCES
stock photography, illustration, motion, type, portfolio materials

  • Veer
  • FotoSearchhundred of thousands images from over 50 stock photography, illustration, and video footage publishers at one website
  • Google Image
  • Clipart.com
  • ClipartGuide.com
  • iStockphotoIt's free to become a member. Find the perfect stock image, and start downloading right away
  • Big Stock Photoroyalty-free as low as $1 per image
  • Stock.XCHNGWhether you just want to browse our huge image gallery or want to share your personal photos with others, this is the site for you

Search in Google under Stock Photography, Clipart
 

Portfolio/Presentation Materials

Aaron Brothers
Dick Blick

 

TYPOGRAPHY

Adobe's Palm-Size Press booklets

Links

  • FontLab—Typographic Resource Links
  • Will-Harris.com—Recommended Sites
  • MyFonts.comFind fonts, founderies, categories (27,906 fonts, grouped into 8,920 families)
  • TYPO–L—a mailing list dedicated to the discussion of tpe, typography, typeface design, and type history.
  • For Your Typographic Information — an ongoing series of educational, informative and entertaining articles written by Ilene Strizver on all matters typographic.

    Font Technologies

  • ClearType technology—Microsoft Reader Uses ClearType Technology and Traditional Typography to Enhance On-Screen Reading (press release)

    Type Foundries & Designers

  • Will-Harris House TypeFounderies—list of major font designers; how to contact them; links
  • Linotype Library
  • Deniart Systems—high quality symbol fonts that span the ages (hieroglyphs to zodiacs, maya glyps to alchemy symbols)
  • Letraset Typographics--commercial site with extensive collection of typefaces; some interesting features, including "The Letraset Ripper" (set type online),Treasure Trail (win a free font).

    Free Fonts / Shareware Fonts

  • MacFonts.com & PCfonts.com —both are part of the ArtToday Network and are billed as  "the most comprehensive lists of Mac (PC) font sites on the Web;" also chat, discussions and other relevant and useful font resources.
  • The Font Fairy
  • Fonts for Scholars, Academics, Students -- samples and downloadable fonts of ancient scribal and epigraphic scripts.
  • Yamada Language Center Non-English Font Archive
  • Font Diner—10 fonts (Mac and PC)
  • Font Face —over 100 fonts (TT, Mac and PC)
  • Mary Forrest: Free Font Archives —39 fonts (Mac and PC) beautiful color examples of each on a single page
  • The Free Site —a jump list of over 30 free font sites
  • Wererat's Fonts—Gothic Horror, Dark Fantasy, Dark Future, Fonts from the Pulp, Runic fonts (all for Windows)
  • Font Freek —1955 PC fonts; 500 Mac fonts (freeware and shareware)
  • Font Head — free fonts from Fonthead Design (Mac and PC; both PS and TT)
  • Type Euphoria—fonts listed and illustrated by category: Bulky/Wavy, Calligraphy, Decorative, Extreme, Funky, Futuristic, Gothic/Horror, Handwriting, Outline, Serif/Sans-Serif  (Windows & Linux TT)
  • Free Font Sources —link list of dozens of sites with healthy descriptions of contents (number and types of fonts)
  • Mike's Sketchpad Font Archives—fonts from designers who offer their creations as either freeware, shareware or emailware; excellent interface, choice (TT/T1, Mac & PC)
  • Classifications

  • The Font Pool--Fonts classified in 18 categories
  • Adobe Type Classification--how Adobe organizes its collection of typefaces

Font Conversion

History  

Special Topics

 

GENERAL

TUTORIALS

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