There are many resources that we like to use while designing our typefaces, many of which we return to time and time again – so we thought we'd share them with you. There's a wide range of resource types from diacritics and language support, to typeface testing and proofing. Hopefully these resources help if you're looking to design your own typefaces.
Links
This post will be updated regularly with new resources and tools. If you'd like to submit any resources, please contact us.
Type Design Tools
Andre Fuch's Relevant Kerning Pairs – Link
Context of Diacritics – Link
Diacritics Club Family Stem Weight Calculator – Link
Diacritics Project – Link
Graphemica – Link
Hoefler&Co Text for Proofing – Link
Hyperglot – Link
Idiotproofed – Link
Just Another Foundry Text Generator – Link
Christoph Koeberlin's Latin Character Sets – Link
Typeface Name Checker – Link
Vietnamese Typography: Diacritical Details – Link
Articles and Inspiration
Should we standardize the naming of font weights? [Typography Guru] – Link
Font Matrix – See & Pair Typefaces Like Never Before – Link
Typewolf – Link
Type01 – Link
Books
Designing Type (by Karen Cheng) – Link
Manual of Diacritics (by Radek Sidun) – Link
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (by Erik Spiekermann)
The Anatomy of Type A Graphic Guide to 100 Typefaces (by Stephen Coles) – Link
The Elements of Typographic Style (by Robert Bringhurst) – Link
Thinking with Type (by Ellen Lupton) – Link
