MEDIA
- Doyald Young, Logotype Designer —
a clip from a lynda.com documentary
- FontCast —
video podcast featuring type designers
- How Monotype Works —
Monotype keyboard & composition caster videos
- The Calligraphy Heritage of Reed College —
Lloyd Reynolds’ calligraphy television series
- Typeradio —
audio podcast featuring type designers
MUSEUMS
- Gutenberg Museum —
in Mainz, Germany
- Hamilton Wood Type Museum —
in Two Rivers, Wisconsin
- International Printing Museum —
in Carson, California
- Klingspor Museum —
in Offenbach, Germany
- Koninklijke Bibliotheek —
the National Library of the Netherlands
- Melbourne Museum of Printing —
in Melbourne, Australia
- Museo Bodoniano —
Bodoni Museum in Parma, Italy
- Museum of Printing —
in North Andover, Massachusetts
- Museum of Printing —
(French) in Lyons, France
- Museum of Printing History —
in Houston, Texas
- Penrith Museum of Printing —
in New South Wales, Australia
- Plantin-Moretus Museum —
in Antwerp, Germany
- Printing Museum —
(Japanese) in Tokyo, Japan
- Tipoteca Italiana fondazione —
in Cornuda, Italy
- Type Museum —
in London
- Werkstätten und Museum für Druckkunst —
in Leipzig, Germany
ORGANIZATIONS
- AIGA —
American Institute of Graphic Arts
- APA —
Amalgamated Printers’ Association
- APHA —
American Printing History Association
- ATypI —
Association Typographique Internationale
- Caxton Club —
Chicago’s finest bibliophiles
- Codex Foundation —
biennial handmade book fair in Berkeley, California
- CULPA —
College & University Letterpress Printers’ Association
- Ephemera Society
- Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies —
book collecting societies
- Fine Press Book Association —
promoting beautiful books & fine printing
- Graphê —
(French) saving the heritage of France’s National Printing Office
- Graphic Arts Guild
- Guild of Bookworkers —
national organization for all the book arts
- Herb Lubalin Study Center —
at the Cooper Union, New York City
- Icograda —
International Council of Graphic Design Associations
- Intern. Assoc. of Master Penmen, Engrossers & Teachers of Handwriting
- International Society of Typographic Designers
- Ladies of Letterpress —
a woman’s place is in the print shop
- Legacy of Letters —
guided study tours with a special focus on letterforms
- Letter Exchange —
a society for lettering arts professionals
- Loslogos —
collecting local logo and type design
- Plantin Society —
offering course in graphic communication.
- Printing Historical Society —
of the United Kingdom
- RBMS —
Rare Books & Manuscripts Section of the ALA
- Rochester Club of Printing House Craftsmen —
graphic arts professionals
- Scottish Printing Archival Trust
- SHARP —
The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing
- Society of Scribes —
the appreciation & understanding of calligraphy
- Society of Scribes and Illuminators —
advancing writing & illumination
- SOTA —
The Society of Typographic Aficionados
- The Typophiles —
encouraging the appreciation of fine printing
- The University of Reading —
Dept. of Typography & Graphic Comm.
- Tokyo Type Directors Club
- Type Camp —
seminars & workshops for students & professionals
- Type Consortium —
keeping the letters in letterpress
- Type Directors Club —
supporting excellence in typography
- Typeright —
ensuring fair copyright protection for type designs
- Typographic Circle —
collective interest in type & typography
SITES OF INTEREST
- Adventures in Monotype —
The trials and tribulations of a late-starting typecaster
- AS8 Design Education —
Bibiliographies by Alessandro Segalini
- Book Artists and Poets —
interviews by Steve Miller
- Briar Press —
classified ads of printers and artists
- Caustic Cover Critic —
One man’s endless ranting about book design
- Designer's Review of Books
- Designing with Type —
devoted to the art & appreciation of typography.
- Fixabook —
analyses book design and gives strategic & creative guidance on jackets, blurbs and spines.
- Flurry —
Boxcar Press’ book arts journal
- Font Aid —
type designers raising funds for humanitarian projects
- Handpress —
Richard-Gabriel Rummonds’ site for handpresses
- Introduction to Letterpress Printing —
sources, explanations & suppliers
- Letterology —
Letters are symbols which turn matter into spirit
- Philobiblion —
for bookbinders & book artists, home of “The Bonefolder”
- Phinney on Fonts —
Thomas Phinney’s blog on Typography & Text
- Regional Oral History Office —
interviews on books & fine printing
- Teaching Type —
typographic education and related subjects
- The Gift of Gabberjabbs —
another fine essay on the inscrutable Walter Hamady by Roy Behrens
- Typeforge —
featuring “This Week in Type”
- Typographer —
type news tweets & the Bald Condensed column
- Typographic Design for Children
- Typographica —
a review of typefaces and type books
- Typophile.com —
typographic collaboration
- U&lc —
ITC’s Upper & Lower Case Magazine
- Virgin Wood Type Manufacturing Company —
dedicated to making wood type using traditional techniques
- Voice —
AIGA’s online journal of design
- We Use Way Too Many Fonts —
Massimo Vignelli discusses typography
TYPOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES
- Alvin Lustig —
Modern American Design Pioneer 1915-1955
- Arts et Métiers Graphiques —
Graduate work of Amelia Hugill-Fontanel
- Book Cover Archive —
an appreciation & categorization
- Carl Ernst Poeschel —
(In German)
- Cary Graphic Arts Collection —
library & digital image database
- Charles Nypels —
internationally-renowned 20th-century typographer . . .
- Digital Scriptorium —
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts
- Dr. Berlin's Foreign Font Archive —
no longer actively updated, formerly a foreign language font archive for Windows
- Edward Tufte —
and the work of the Graphics Press
- Farber Gravestone Collection —
from the American Antiquarian Society
- Fonts In Use —
from Sam Berlow, Stephen Coles, and Nick Sherman; cataloging & examining real-world typography
- Gerald Giampa —
P22’s tribute to the “Fleuron Master”
- Gerrit Noordzij —
bibliography & interview
- Goudyfonts —
Ascender Corporation’s tribute to Fred & Bertha Goudy.
- Gutenberg Bible —
two copies of the 42-line Bible at the British Library
- Hamilton Wood Type specimens —
Nick Sherman’s Flickr set
- Hatch Show Print 1994-present
- Hubbard, Hunter & the Roycroft Workshops —
by Roy Behrens
- IDEA —
the Ismar David Electronic Archive
- Jan Tschichold
- John Fass —
and his Hammer Creek Press
- John Fass —
Flickr group of Fass examples
- John Ryder —
an appreciation of John Ryder’s “Printing for Pleasure”
- Letterheady —
interesting letterhead designs
- Mac McGrew —
author of “American Metal Typefaces of the 20th Century”
- Merle Armitage —
Roy R. Behrens’ essay on Merle Armitage
- Postage Stamps by Type Designers —
collected by the Katran Press
- Printers' Marks —
“A Chapter in the History of Typography” by W. Roberts
- Rare Type Specimens —
Rare specimen books from type foundries.
- Richard Eckersley —
Roy R. Behrens’ essay on Richard Eckersley
- Rob Roy Kelly —
collected writings of Rob Roy Kelly
- Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection —
Univ. of Texas, Austin
- Robert "Doc" Leslie —
the life & work of Robert “Doc” Leslie
- Sheaff : ephemera —
Dick Sheaff’s show-and-tell & wondering aloud . . .
- Specimenism —
digital type specimens courtesy of Nick Sherman
- St Bride Library —
printing, book arts, typography & graphic design
- The Bentons. . . . —
Patricia Cost on Linn Boyd & Morris Fuller Benton
- The History of the Book —
Flickr photos of initials, ornaments & type
- The Typographic Archives —
preserving web content regarding typography
- Typarchive —
lettering from around the world
- Type & Press —
Fred Williams’ beloved printing periodical
- TypeCulture —
Mark Jamra’s digital type foundry & academic resource
- Typefoundry —
James Mosley on the history of type & letterforms.
- Typo —
Robert Coupland Harding’s magazine
- W.W. Norton Book Design Archive
- Walker Rumble: Gatekeepers —
Printers, little magazines & small presses
- What Walter (Hedgehog) Hamady Knows —
an essay by Roy R. Behrens
- Will Bradley —
printer, illustrator & “Dean of American Typographers”
- William Addison Dwiggins —
designer, typographer, marionette maker
- Wim Crouwel