basearts - Internet Resources

Adobe Resources:

Type references and tips
http://www.adobe.com/products/type/adobe-type-references-tips.html

About fonts
Previewing fonts
Choose a font family and style
OpenType fonts
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/fonts

Adobe Type Designers:
http://www.adobe.com/products/type/font-designers.html

TypeKit
http://blog.typekit.com/

CUT-UP MACHINE
http://www.languageisavirus.com/cutupmachine.html

Graffiti

collection - base

Saif Azzuz - El Barto
El Barto - article 1
El Barto - article 2

Michael P. Fay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_P._Fay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_vs._Australia

Wikipedia - history / entry

NY Historical Timeline
Ny Magazine - Summer Guide

Sites:

Art Crimes
The Writing on the Wall
http://www.graffiti.org/
http://www.graffiti.org/index/best.html
http://www.graffiti.org/index/alt.html
http://www.graffiti.org/index/art.html
http://www.graffiti.org/index/hiphop.html

Barry McGee
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/mcgee/index.html

Microsoft Typography Resources:

TrueType fundamentals
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/TTCH01.htm

A DISAGREEABLY FACETIOUS TYPE GLOSSARY
FOR THE AMUSEMENT & EDIFICATION OF PEOPLE BEGINNING A LOVE AFFAIR WITH FONTS
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/news/glossary/content.htm

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Font characteristics

Character height =

Weight
Stroke width, called weight - roman, regular, bold, thin, italic/oblique thickness of the character outlines relative to height

- Hairline
- Thin
- Ultra-light
- Extra-light
- Light
- Book
- Normal / regular / roman / plain
- Medium
- Demi-bold / semi-bold
- Bold
- Extra-bold / extra
- Heavy
- Black
- Extra-black
- Ultra-black / ultra
(normal, regular and plain)

Slope - Style, Angle - normal, roman or upright

Width - Character Width - compressed, condensed or narrow. proportional or monospaced(fixed-width), (tabular) digits,

Optimal size
Poster - larger than 72 point
Display - 19–72 point
Subhead - 14–18 point
(Regular) - 10–13 point
Small Text (SmText) - 8–10 point
Caption - 6–8 point

Metrics
Font metrics refers to metadata consisting of numeric values relating to size and space in the font overall, or in its individual glyphs. Font-wide metrics include cap height, x-height, ascender height, descender depth, and the font bounding box.

Serifs

Typographic - Technical Topics

http://www.adobe.com/type/topics/main.html
http://www.adobe.com/type/topics/glossary.html

AIGA
http://www.aiga.org/

Adobe Type Primer
OpenType User Guide

Webmonkey Fonts
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/design/fonts/index.html

Web Typography Tutorial: Overview
by Nadav Savio
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/design/fonts/tutorials/tutorial3.html

Upper and lowercase Magazine
http://www.itcfonts.com/ulc/default.asp- sid=0SW23EEFSMF19KVS3JWWCFCWG4S6DKRF

Counterspace
http://counterspace.motivo.com/

Microsoft Typography | Developer information
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/creators.htm

Foundries

The Hoefler Type Foundry
http://www.typography.com/

House Industries
http://www.houseindustries.com/

Emigre
http://www.emigre.com/

ITC
http://www.itcfonts.com/