Jaimey Shapey List of resources for Type@Cooper ‘20 – Type History – Diacritics / Special Characters – Language Support – Type Design How-To’s & Theory – Technical / Software Title Subject Author Article Link Diacritics Wiki All you need to design a OpenSource http://diacritics.typo.cz/ font with correct accents. index.php?id=1 Underware’s Latin Plus Underware Foundry Underware Foundry https://www.underware.nl/ Diacritic Character set for latin_plus/info Latin Plus, there’s also a section here for ampersands and other punctuation characters. Context of Diacritics Context of Diacritics is an Ondrej Jób https://www.urtd.net/x/ analysis of diacritics made cod/ to help type designers with refining the character sets of their fonts. Esszet or ß This German character J. Mosley http:// that’s destroying all of us typefoundry.blogspot.com/ on the inside. 2008/01/esszett-or.html ***In French, Evolution of I can’t read this because E. Rigaud http://www.aisforapple.fr/ the Ampersand it’s in French but its about blog/esperluette/ ampersands. The Ampersand (A series of A series of posts about the Shady Characters https:// posts) history and design of shadycharacters.co.uk/ Ampersands, follow the 2011/06/the-ampersand- links on the webpage to part-1-of-2/ continue reading. The Alphabets of Europe The Alphabets of Michael Everson http://evertype.com/ Europe provides a source alphabets/ of linguistic data for the indigenous languages of Europe. Geonames Unicode test page and Simone Westermann https://www.geonames.de/ transliteration / alphab.html transcription tables for writing systems (alphabets, abjads, syllabaries) of various languages Decode Unicode Literally a complete DecodeUnicode https://decodeunicode.org/ unicode database designed for type designers. Italics An exploration/ The Temporary Space http:// history/“how-to” about letters.temporarystate.net/ designing italics and why entry/4/ every font should have italics. Jaimey Shapey List of resources for Type@Cooper ‘20 Title Subject Author Article Link Type Design Basics Basically if those type trick Underware Foundry http:// books were a website. www.typeworkshop.com/ index.php?id1=type-basics Intro to Font Metrics Self-explanatory. Weston Thayer http://westonthayer.com/ writing/intro-to-font- metrics/ The Shape of Words Bruno Munari just being Bruno Munari https://readings.design/ philosophical ’n shit. PDF/Bruno-Munari-The- Shape-of-Words-and- Poems-and-Telegrams-in- Design-as-Art-1971.pdf The Elements of You know what this is, but Robert Bringhurst https://readings.design/ Typographic Style here’s the PDF so you don’t PDF/ have to buy it. the_elements_of_typograp hic_style.pdf Developing an awareness This paper examines the Ladislas Mandel http://cajun.cs.nott.ac.uk/ of typographic letterforms role of letterforms as a compsci/epo/papers/ means of communication, volume6/issue1/ starting with hand-set ep075lmf.pdf metal type and mechanical typesetting in hot metal. Analyzes type design through a cultural context. A Brief Guide to Basic DJR’s handout for all the David Jonathan Ross (DJR!) https://djr.com/hampshire/ Typography basics + some in type div3/information_design/ design. cheatsheet3.pdf Approaches to applying A WHOLE ESSAY ABOUT Fernando de Mello Vargas http://www.fermello.org/ spacing methods in SPACING. HELPFUL AF. 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Gerry Leonidas, head of https:// about Typeface Design the Type Design MA at ilovetypography.com/ Reading University 2010/03/25/a-few-things- i%e2%80%99ve-learned- about-typeface-design/ Jaimey Shapey List of resources for Type@Cooper ‘20 Title Subject Author Article Link Bézier Curves and Type A geeky but useful article F.D. Martins https:// Design: A Tutorial about curve rasertization, learn.scannerlicker.net/ quadratic vs cubic beziers, 2014/04/16/bezier-curves- a ton of nerdy but and-type-design-a- important computer shit. tutorial/ Drawing Vectors for Type A less geeky but still James Edmonson https://ohnotype.co/blog/ & Lettering helpful version of the F.D. drawing-vectors Martins article. Glyphs Tutorials Honestly all of these are Various https://glyphsapp.com/ extremely helpful and user tutorials friendly, and all have different levels of complexity. How to Write Glyphs …how to write glyphs Various https://glyphsapp.com/ Plugins plugins. 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