josephine12cute:

As an advertising student, one of the things we are required to study is about Typography and Typefaces. We were told to find books and PDFs as our resources. I’m so poor so I can’t buy a lot of books. Good thing I found a lot of PDFs and of course I will share them with people who are wanting to be very good in typography. Some PDFs might have the same content (like anatomy of a typeface). I shall add a lot more in this list when I find nice ones in the future. I also added some Online Typography Magazines to give you ideas and inspiration.

The links go directly to the PDF files. You must have Adobe Reader to view them. You can right click and “save as” or “save link as”.

Specific Typography Stuff (random):

• Erik Spiekermann’s Typo Tips: Seven Rules for Better Typography
• Formal Attributes
• Helvetica: Complements and Alternatives
• Meet Your Type: A Field Guide to Typography (single pages / spreads)
• Parts of Letters
• Styles, Weighs, and Widths
• The Right Font for the Job
• The Typographer’s Glossary: Common Type Terminology
• Type Anatomy: A Primer of Typographic Terms
• Webfonts: A Designer’s Guide
• What is Open Type?

Full Articles:

• “Introduction to Typography” by Jennifer Simmer
• “Typography Basics” by David Creamer

Typographic Inspirations:

• Font Magazine - 005 / 006 / 007
• Four Minutes to Midnight - Dissonance / A Quick Fix / Speak / Remix / Manifest / Kneejerk /  Seven / Eight / Nine / Ten / Happy Hour / Expozine

planets-bend-between-us:

yourfandomsucks asked where I got my dotted borders from. I make them myself, so I told her I’d do a quick little tutorial on how. it’s incredibly easy. it involves only about two or three steps.

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