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Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering
"Apple and Microsoft have always disagreed in how to display fonts on computer displays."
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface
"Why choose a particular typeface? Here are thirteen reasons."
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"The results are listed below - the most beautiful fonts, created by the open-source community and free for personal, academic and (sometimes) commercial use."
"This week, FontShop takes a trip to the supermarket in search of palatable packaging. Among the shelves cluttered with superfluous drop shadows and chaotic typography, it was easy to spot the few beautiful boxes."
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"Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface . . . as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives."
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Seth Godin is now giving typography advice.
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Linotype provides the downlow on what fonts are used on international football (soccer) jerseys.
Style-Force Semplice Pixelfonts
Free pixelfonts. Sweet.
Explaining the differences between Times Roman and Times New Roman, in case you were interested.
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Font Spotting the Thank You for Smoking Titles
Typographica IDs almost all the fonts in the titles of Thank You for Smoking.
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In Search of a Comprehensive Type Design Theory
"Just as the purpose of DNA analysis is to identify the location and function of every human gene, so the study of typefaces can be seen as an attempt to understand the formal appearance of the smallest unit of the written word."
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"Autobahn has developped a font wich can be used on fences. The font is based uppon the grid of the fence."
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"What I’m not opposed to saying, however, is that the style used in an essay certainly seems to influence grading tendencies, even if that is at an unconcious level."
Perception of Fonts: Perceived Personality Traits and Uses
"This study sought to determine if certain personalities and uses are associated with various fonts."
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The New York Times touches on the current fascination with type.
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"These are some of the links I came across in the last month . . . of reasonable interest, such as links to new foundries and pages of typographers."
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Site of a type designer with a TON of free fonts.
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Our Favorite Fonts of 2005 Part 1
Typographica's favortie fonts from the first half of 2005 . . . for whatever reason I love reading about typography . . .
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Typeface of the month: Gill Sans
A deep look at Gill Sans, typeface of the BBC amongst others.
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Portfolio of Eduardo Recife.
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Typography Crash Course Roundup
"The following resources are comprised of some of my favorite articles on the subject and some sites that should give most a great head start."
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20 Best License-Free Quality Fonts
"Top 20 Best License-Free Official Fonts, which are likely to be used rather for official, serious presentations (such as business sites) than a colourful teenager’s homepage."
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"FontExplorer X sets a new standard for font management software."
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"FONTSMACK is a repository of sIFR fonts along with TrueType and PostScript fonts."
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300 Free Truetype Fonts You Should Have
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"FontFreak.com, one of the largest and most visited free-/shareware font archive on the net."
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The world's first interactive visual font search system