Type and Typography, Resources

Complied by Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg

Scribal Traditions
Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University)
Ancient Greek Incscriptions (Imaging Projects, Oxford University)
Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629) (Notre Dame University)
Incunabula and Early Western Printing
Incunabula, Dawn of Western Printing (NDL Museum, Japan)
The Digital Gutenberg Project (Gutenberg Bible online, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin)
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Book printed by Aldus Manutius, MIT)
Botanicus Digital Library (Historic botanical literature going back to the Rennaisance from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library)
Twenthieth Century Printing
The Italian Futurist Book
Bauhaus Typography Workshop
Hermann Zapf (Prominent type designer, in German)
Jim Parkinson (Excellent nameplate designer, specializes in contemporary blackletter fonts)
Type Web Sites
Typophile
Typographica
Twenty Faces (Excellent guide to 20 roman type faces)
Articles
History of Western Typography (Wikipedia)
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
(An in-progress guide to web typography)
Typography in the Visual Poem
Core fonts for the web (Wikipedia)
A Great Book on Typography
Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
Type Books (Reviews of books on typography)
Foundries
List of foundries (from MyFonts.com)
Linotype
Monotype
Adobe
International Type Corporation – ITC
FontShop
Berthold
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