The Jestchest
These are my go-to resources for typography, design, coding and whatnot
Typography
- Penguin Composition Rules by Jan Tschichold
- The mother of typographic rules to me. I was first introduced to them by Carl Fredrik Hultenheim.
- Practical Typography - Matthew Butterick
- A great typographic guide.
- State of Webtype - Bram Stein
- An up-to-date browser support data for web fonts and typographic features on the web.
Type and writing
- Typedia blog
- Seriously great newsletters with examples of new fonts and a very good curated list of typographic news.
- Ministry of Type
- I’ve been a fan for ages, the level of detail and craftsmanship Aegir reproduces the illustrations and typography he writes to me is staggering
- Craig Mod
- Some of the best articles on the web is authored by Craig. Writes pretty rarely but jee is his articles well thought through.
- Typographica
- A bit more traditional feed showcasing and reviewing fonts, mixed up with book reviews, articles and typographic design commentary now and then.
- Typotheque
- A typefoundre that has a lot of good articles.
- I Love Typography
- A truly great resource for almost anything typographical by John Boardley (founder and publisher of Codex Magazine).
- The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
- Robert Bringhurst’s book The Elements of Typographic Style applied to the web by Richard Rutter.
- Typophile
- Without a doubt one of the best typeface and typography related forum ever.
Books & magazines
- Biblis
- The friends of The National Library of Sweden publishes this quarterly book about typography, bookbinding, printing, illustration and all other topics related to books.
- Compass by Carl Fredrik Hultenheim
- Swedish typographer Carl Fredrik Hultenheims first and last issue of his book series about typography. It is a great source of knowledge for anyone interested in typography. Unfortunately it’s out of print but it might be available from «Antikvariat Morris» in Sweden.
- Codex Magazine - the journal of letterforms by John Boardley
- No other magazine has taken on and showed such a passion and love for letterforms and typography than Codex. If you don’t own a copy of the three issues, you’d better head over to their site and buy them now.
Tools
- FontFriend
- Font Friend is a bookmarklet that lets you try Google Webfonts on your site directly in the browser.
- WhatFont
- A great Chrome extension that lets you hover a font on any site and it tells you what font is used.
Code
- FileFormat.info
- This is the center of the Unicode universe to me!