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Fonts or typefaces are the clothes that your words wear. The book Typographic Design: Form and Communication by Rob Carter, Ben Day, and Philip Meggs (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985) provides a good introduction to typeforms, their organization, and their relationship to content. At the Web site for Graphion's Online Type Museum, www.slip.net/~graphion/museum.html, you can learn about the history and practice of typesetting. Then venture over to the typoGraphic Web site, typographic.razorfish.com/, where you can learn about the evolution and development of letterforms, view a timeline of the recent history of typography, find a glossary of typographic terms, and browse a gallery of typographic imagery. Microsoft Typography at www.microsoft.com/truetype contains free TrueType fonts and a discussion of the future of typography on the Web. At the Shareware and Freeware Fonts Web page, desktoppublishing.com/fonts-free.html, you can find links to many Web sites that provide electronic fonts either for free or for a small fee.
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Additional Links

Astigmatic One Eye Font Foundry   You can find a number of free fonts that are suitable for use in display type at this Web site. You can also find shareware fonts here. These are out-of-the-ordinary fonts, and some of them could be described as strange, distorted, or odd.

TrueType Typography   You can learn all about TrueType technology and fonts at this Web site. It includes sections on the history of TrueType, outlines, font tools (TrueType and others), open type, examples of great TrueType fonts, anti-aliasing, TrueType specification, the TrueType rasterizer, and more. One special feature is an interview with Sampo Kaasila, the inventor of TrueType. You can also find links to many font sites, including Microsoft Typography, Apple Font/Tools Group, Monotype, Adobe Type, Linotype Library, Agfa Type, ITC, and more.

Will-Harris House--Design, Writing, and Typography   Selecting an appropriate typeface for your work is important because the typeface sets the tone of your work in print. The Will-Harris House Web site offers help with typography through Esperfonto™ a Web-based system for finding "the most appropriate typeface." From the main page, just click "Esperfonto." You'll also a tutorial on using type, a list of type foundries, and more. Will Harris is a designer, author, and consultant who has written numerous books and articles on computers, typography, and desktop design. You can learn more about him at his Web site.
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