Fantastic Typography Blogs For Your Inspiration
Some say that web design without typography is like an orange without its peel, it just isn’t complete. Typography encompasses the reality of effective web design and achieves success in creating web page identity, eye-catching sites, and the enhancement of visual appearance.
Typography is much more than the “art of text”, it’s the evolution of creativity within simple to intricate web designs. One can say that a good architecture needs great support, the same concept can be applied to web design in the sense that a good blog could do without the use of typography, but an astounding one could use the creative support.
Typography leaves you with the option of bringing together simple creativity with unique and effective communication in order to get your blog or sites main focus across. Now, with all of this information at hand here are 40 fantastic typography-related blogs that will allow you to expand your knowledge base of what typography really is.
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Typography Served
A growing gallery of fresh typographic works from leading creative professionals.
NiceWebType
Nice Web Type is dedicated to collecting and expanding their knowledge base on typographic styles in practice. Offtopic: such a lovely web design!
Use Typography
Use Typography is mainly focused on showcasing websites that have good typography. Its purpose is to inspire and encourage good typography principles in web design.
Type Directors Club
The international organization for all people who are devoted to excellence in typography has a lot of publications and articles related to typography, but also information about upcoming events, competitions and awards.
The Ministry of Type
A beautiful and interesting weblog about lettering, typography and found type.
TypeNeu
TypeNeu lets you access informative typography information that ranges from the best fonts to tips on how to design top fonts.
Typophile
Once you enter the Typophile site you will be able to access active discussion boards equipped with sections that focus on font identification and type design. Interviews with typographers and news will also be available.
I Love Typography
This blog is focused and devoted towards anything and everything that is Typography, type, fonts, and typefaces.
Type for You
Hosted by BlogSpot this blog provides insight on articles, font reviews, events and interviews tied to typography.
Typesites
Typesites is a showcase blog that sets out to inform you on sites that have great typographic design on a weekly basis.
The Font Feed
On a daily basis FontFeed finds recommended fonts, typographic techniques, and digital type at work in the real world for real life examples on how to put typography in use.
Typographer
Typographer.org brings up-to-date news on typography related topics from David and Yves as an evolving project.
betatype
A privte blog of an independent type foundry. By reading the blog, you can get some really useful insights into how professionals do their magic (via wittevrongel on Twitter).
TypeTheory
A journal of contemporary typography featuring news, views, reviews and interviews – an informative blog on typography that covers both the history of type, typographic news, observations and resources. Useful! By Ty Wilkins (via JameDeAngelis, bojanjanjanin and _Tristan on Twitter).
TypeForYou.org
TypeForYou.org is the sister blog of TypeForYou.Blogspot.com, it’s a blog aimed towards typography news and resources.
Swiss Legacy
This is a great typography site full of resources and information such as videos, book reviews, type contests to test your skills and more.
Upscale Typography
This is a typography blog managed by an independent typefoundry. This site offers useful tips, new font releases, trends, and up-to-date news on fonts.
Slanted
This typography blog is written in German, however it is a great source for inspiration and useful sources and resources. German-speaking readers will certainly appreciate the magazine. Another German typography-related blogs are Spatium, Fontwerk and DerSven.de.
Le Typographe
This is another informational typography blog that isn’t written in English, its translation can be found here. If you don’t know the language used on this site then you can utilize it as a sort of “picture book” or for resources as well, since you won’t be able to participate in forums.
Design & Typo
Yet another non-English written blog that offers great resources and tips on typography, I’ve included the translated version of the site here so that you can benefit from the wide range of categories and galleries.
FontLover
FontLover gives you insight to recent news in all sorts of font categories, font updates, typography product reviews, and resources.
DailyType
This is a project managed by a group of Russian type designers. They create, examine, and then post original typefaces along with their results on a daily basis.
Mark Simonson
This site is the personal blog of Mark Simonson; he is a font designer who brings creativity not only to his blog but to the typography projects he takes part in as well. He broadcasts all of his font type knowledge and resources right on his site.
Microsoft Typography
Surprisingly Microsoft over the years has dedicated a section of its site solely to the defining of all that typography can offer, you will be able to find resources on how to develop fonts, links, news, complete list of type foundries, free font tools and more.
Eightface
This blog is rather a collection of interesting and useful links related to typography.
Typenuts
Simon Pascal’s tumblog on typography; unfortunately, not updated recently.
Spiekerblog
Erik Spiekermann’s private blog on typography, always insightful and always worth reading.
Typefoundry
Yet another extraordinary Blogspot’s blog on typography. Most articles are related to the history of type.
TypeJunkies
Graham Smith’s tumblog with fresh links to excellent resources related to typography.
Popular Calligraphy
A Russian blog on the beauty of handwriting and calligraphy. Often updated, by Artemy Lebedev.
MyFonts.com blog (via typographica)
Conclusion
Within this article you’ve been able to find all sorts of blogs that offer insightful information, resources, and tips on typography. This compilation of blogs enables you to seek, find, and absorb information that will help you learn, create, develop, and share anything and all-about fonts. Experience the thin line and creative correlation between typography and web design.
Further Resources
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typenuts
iPhone and desktop wallpapers for font freaks and typenuts.
RSS-Feeds Of 140 Typography Blogs
Thinking with Type
Thinking with type is a blog that focuses on several typography resources that will aid you in font design, you will be able to read articles on Line Spacing, Kerning, Text Alignment, and more.
P22
This is the journal section of P22.com, it gives you a reasonable amount of information on anything that has to do with Typography, through this site you will find access to type foundries, type tools, and organizations whose main focus entails typography.
Web Typography
This resource is considered to be an informative guide to web typography along with the element of fonts applied to web design.
WebStyleGuide
This site contains the content of a book on web styles in blog format, once you click the link to visit this site you will land on the section regarding typography.
arlo
March 12th, 2009 4:24 pmGreat stuff!!! Hah!
unbreakable
March 12th, 2009 5:04 pmKeep it coming! Work gets boring when I don’t have good stuff like this to peruse.
Kwame Busia
March 12th, 2009 5:32 pmExcellent post. I have been paying extra attention to typography lately, and it is now an integral part of the look and feel of my lifestyle and design blog
Rafie
March 12th, 2009 5:44 pmLegendary of typefaces!
Putra
March 12th, 2009 7:02 pmNice collection! Thanks!
Joel Reyes
March 12th, 2009 7:35 pmThank you all for your posts! We appreciate it. I/we hope to produce more interesting and valuable content as SM progresses. :)
Gabe Diaz
March 12th, 2009 7:50 pmgreat collection!
Pradeep CD
March 12th, 2009 10:16 pmUseful post…
Thanks
Aaron Shapiro
March 12th, 2009 10:54 pmReally outstanding post. I’m seriously appreciating this seemingly newfound love for typography that’s happening online. Posts like this will just make designers more aware of how important it is!
hardCOREware.net
March 12th, 2009 11:04 pmAn orange without a peel would be the best invention ever!
Raj Kumar Maharjan
March 12th, 2009 11:25 pmhumm nice collection
OverZero.it
March 13th, 2009 12:16 amGood resources, thank you!
Stefan Soellner
March 13th, 2009 12:36 amDid we mention FontShuffle for iPhone?
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=298268157&mt=8
pc
March 13th, 2009 12:56 amjust what I needed, thanks!
Alessandro
March 13th, 2009 1:00 amGreat article!
Quakeulf
March 13th, 2009 1:13 amI spilled manjuices all over. Best post on SM in ages!!! =3
Kevin
March 13th, 2009 1:18 amVery nice collection!
Helen
March 13th, 2009 1:35 am“Some say that web design without typography is like an orange without its peel”
Who says that? i’d like to meet them so i can laugh at them.
matthias.werner
March 13th, 2009 1:58 amAMAZING!
as usual… :)
Creamy CSS
March 13th, 2009 2:19 amGreat list! Thanks for hard work! ;)
reneschmidt
March 13th, 2009 2:29 amnice collection
Rohit
March 13th, 2009 2:42 amGreat post, can serve as an inspiration.
Drala
March 13th, 2009 3:40 amGreat, GREAAAAAT the SM typography post are the best!!
SM RULES!!!!
Timothy
March 13th, 2009 4:47 amGreat list! Gonna RSS some…
Gerd Wippich
March 13th, 2009 5:06 amGreat list. I will use some of these resources for my lectures. Thank you, Joel.
Anthony Bruno
March 13th, 2009 5:12 amGreat Roundup! Thanks!
joyoge designers' bookmark
March 13th, 2009 5:12 amgreat list, I like. thanks a lot..
Tom Bradshaw
March 13th, 2009 5:27 amAnother great list of resources! Sites like these are a really great source of inspiration! Always makes me put a little more thought into my own work – I’m trying to put a greater focus on typography for my designs.
Nicolas S.
March 13th, 2009 5:42 amType type type type, type type type type… typefaces… ROCK! Great list of typeface-centric site!
Stuart Thursby
March 13th, 2009 5:54 amA fantastic collection of type blogs!
Manager
March 13th, 2009 6:00 amReally good, thanks!
Pete
March 13th, 2009 6:03 amHave you guys at SM actually been the Itchy Robot site. It’s a dead site that hasn’t been updated for over 2 years. I smell post filler.
UptownRiot
March 13th, 2009 10:05 amWhy is it that so frequently SmashingMag forgets to use pagebreaks for those that subscribe to their feed? I can not figure it out.
Michelle
March 13th, 2009 11:48 amTotally made my day! Thanks SM!
paul
March 13th, 2009 12:10 pmnice! even i found several that i wasn’t aware of!
Basma
March 13th, 2009 1:00 pmI LOVE SMASHIN! I LOVE YOU!
EXCELLENT EXCELLENT LIST!!!!!
Vida
March 13th, 2009 1:11 pmS-type-endous!
Joel Reyes
March 13th, 2009 2:05 pmThank you ALL for your posts! We truly appreciate it. ;)
Andrew
March 13th, 2009 3:06 pmThere are so many cool typography sites here! You should also add: youshouldliketypetoo.com – I just found that one the other day and it is great!
Jen Walter
March 13th, 2009 3:08 pmGreat post – would love to see more posts with Design related blogs – both large and small , inhouse and freelance.
Javier
March 13th, 2009 4:25 pmGreat Post, don’t forget to visit http://www.unostiposduros.com a typography blog in spanish language.
Joel Reyes
March 13th, 2009 10:11 pmThanks for the addition Javier. Great post!
Joel R.
Looney Designer.Com
Nuno Amaral
March 14th, 2009 5:42 amVery good
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Connie Witerspoon
March 14th, 2009 8:46 amFontShaker is pretty cool as well.
Tim Brown
March 14th, 2009 6:32 pmHey Joel, thanks for the kind words … and thanks for including Nice Web Type among these other great resources. I have a bunch of new twitter followers because of the attention! That means lots of new folks will be aware as I improve the project. Thanks again.
katieburns
March 14th, 2009 8:14 pmi got lost on all these typography blogs…
i was suprised word boner wasnt on here
hes on tumblr, although hes not a resource for different fonts, he does a pretty good job at using all them to humor/muse everyone on tumblr.
http://www.wordboner.com
RolsRice
March 14th, 2009 10:30 pmAwesome! great inspiration for design.
Abdulsalam Alasaadi
March 14th, 2009 10:43 pmwonderful collection! well done.
niuhuifei
March 15th, 2009 2:58 amWonderful, thanks
ken
March 15th, 2009 4:34 amHaven’t visited sites, but how
Do you get typpgraphy onto website where available fonts are so limited?
Sigurdur Armannsson
March 15th, 2009 5:30 amNice list on a great site. I always enjoy the articles here always pleasing to see something about type.
Thanks for including my RRS feed list to such a nice and broad audience. I have never counted the feeds myself. I am told they are more than 140 and that would mean over 160 by the end of next week when I have added the most recent feeds I have found.
Take care.
Matt
March 15th, 2009 10:56 amHow about typography podcasts? like http://readbetweentheleading.com
Connie Witerspoon
March 16th, 2009 6:06 amHere is the correct link to
Jen Walter
March 16th, 2009 6:59 amOooh yea podcasts – design and typography would be awesome!!! Good suggestion Matt!
kevin
March 16th, 2009 7:09 amAwsome list !
mary
March 16th, 2009 9:54 amThere’s a typo error.
In the article’s 2nd paragraph it says:
Typography is much more then the “art of text”…
It should say Typography is much more than the “art of text”…
Normally, I wouldn’t point out a small error but since I hold smashingmag in higher esteem, I set higher standards for it. =)
Jarryd
March 16th, 2009 4:15 pmA very useful compilation! Will be bookmarking and checking often for some typography inspiration!
Rakesh
March 16th, 2009 10:54 pmGR8 STUFF……. KEEP POSTING
Petar Atanasov
March 17th, 2009 1:13 pmVery useful…I am glad that I am spending time reading articles like this!
Andrii
March 19th, 2009 1:57 pm“A Russian blog on the beauty of handwriting and calligraphy. Often updated, by Artemy Lebedev.”
Not Artemy, but Artem, they are two different persons.
Tyler Thompson
March 23rd, 2009 11:05 amGreat stuff.
yqs
March 28th, 2009 12:04 amType is beautiful. A blog about western and sometimes Japanese and Chinese typography for those who read chinese.
Paulie
March 29th, 2009 1:57 amGreat collection… thanks…
But “Some say that web design without typography is like an orange without its peel”? Who would ever say that? On the remote premise that someone would be tempted to use such a strange comparison, the analogy is not great – an orange without its peel is actually digestible – surely the object of typography is to make information digestible?
I’m afraid that bizarre opening sentence drew me into reading the next paragraph, and I immediately regretted it:
“Typography… is the evolution of creativity…” I beg your pardon?
And even more perplexing:
“One can say that a good architecture needs great support, the same concept can be applied to web design in the sense that a good blog could do without the use of typography, but an astounding one could use the creative support.”
Well I’m afraid that’s lost on me. For one thing, I’m wondering – how do you read a blog that doesn’t use typography?
Robert (InToGraphics @forums)
March 29th, 2009 4:01 pmThanks for most of these.
Some I already was aware of, but most are new.
Throwing this one in myself : letterheadfonts
(See their “Gallery” and “Tips & Tricks”/”Tutorials”.)
Mike
April 1st, 2009 3:32 amAmazing article, thanks
momo
April 8th, 2009 11:06 amVery good
Stuart Thursby
May 19th, 2009 7:14 pmI would humbly submit my own type-centric blog to the list, Thoughts on Type, focused more on the context & usage of typography – http://www.sthursby.com/blog/
Muhammad Omer
July 9th, 2009 5:11 ama lot of inspiration :) thanks Smash..
E.
August 15th, 2009 11:17 amYour link to ’40 fantastic blogs’ isn’t working and I sure would like to see the list.
PaidOnlineSurveys
January 11th, 2010 9:55 pmfound your site today and really liked it.. i bookmarked it and will be back to check it out some more later ..
chali
July 22nd, 2010 11:06 pmgood suggestion!
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Joel Skotak
January 6th, 2011 1:29 pmGreat roundup! I love the “Thinking with Type” website. That is such a good book, with valuable information. Their website is well designed and laid out.
I enjoy seeing websites that take advantage of the power of typography. Thanks for sharing!
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