Typography Links

We've run across a number of helpful typographic resources in our web travels.
Here are the ones we consider most useful:

Foundry Directories

Precision Type Foundries

Microsoft Typography Foundries List

MyFont's Foundry List

CreativePro Foundry List

FAQ, Books, Reference

FontLab FAQ page

Books on Typography and Lettering (The Forum On-Line Antiques Mall)

Books About Books: The Colophon Book Shop

Bibliographies on Typesetting

Oak Knoll Bookstore: Typography

History and Practice of Typesetting

typoGRAPHIC

TrueType Info & Utilities

TypeBooks

Counterspace

Global Type typeface database 

Non-English/non-Latin Typography

ParaType  «multilingual typefaces» especially Cyrillic & CIS 

HermesSOFT Cyrillic and multilingual fonts

Chinese, Japanese, Korean- Ken Lunde

Hebrew

Arabic Typography 

The Multilingual PC Directory

Monotype Typography Inc.

Ascender Corporation 

Fingertip Software

Special Services

Ray Cruz Typeface Designs

Tiro Typeworks — especially international fonts

San Gabriel Custom Fontologists

Signature/Logo Fonts

Creative Logo Design By DakovGroup

The Font Source

Alexander Walter's custom TrueType handwriting, signature and logo fonts

Elfring Soft Fonts — signatures, barcode, MICR fonts, LJ softfonts, etc.

E-signature — customized fonts

The Fontry — sign fonts

Formula Solutions — custom TrueType fonts, especially containing company logos and brands.

Bizfonts — business fonts and barcodes

Design Training 

Type Talk

Typophile � multiple forums

Comp.fonts Usenet Newsgroup

Typo-L Discussion of Type ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Standards

Adobe Type 1 & 3 fonts — General Info

Adobe Type 1 fonts — Tech Notes

Adobe Font Technology

Microsoft OpenType and TrueType Fonts Information

Apple AAT Font Quality Specification

CID Font Overview

Typography Magazines

Typ (Netherlands) magazine

Letterror "magazine"

Events, Meetings, Conferences

TypeCon 

International Unicode Conference

ATypI annual conference 

Type Directors Club

Morisawa Awards International Typeface Design Competition

Organizations

Association for Font Information Interchange

TypeRight

ATypI

Internet Type Designers Association

Society of Typographic Aficionados

Foundries/Catalogs

Agfa-Monotype -  8,000 fonts by style, designer, keyword, or name.

ITC Fonts -  Quick Font Search results are powered by IdentifontÆ, the unique font identifier that enables you to identify a font by answering a series of simple questions concerning the font's characteristics.

MyFonts - over 36,000 fonts on one easy-to-use web site.

Matton — Offering over 5000 PC and MAC Fonts. All Fonts can be searched or browsed alphabetically.