The Jestchest

These are my go-to resources for videogrphy, audio, music, design, typography, coding and whatnot.

Make Art Now: Josh, who runs the channel, is like the Mark Rober of videography. A mix of odd ideas, weird experiments, diy-builds and gear reviews.
Art of the Documentary: Currently the best documentary community and courses online. Well worth the money! :-)

Gerald Undone: It tests and reviews was a sport, Gerald would be the undisputed world champion. Before purchasing any major product I make sure to watch and re-watch Geralds reviews of them.

Color Grading Central: Down to earth tips and tutorials about color-grading.

Ricky Tinez: I love Rickys stuff, it can be a review of gear, it can be him just fiddling around making tracks or him tutorialing something he wants us to learn. One of my fav music channels.
Cameron Gorham: I’ve been following Camerons Venus Theory channel for a while now, I always return when inspiration is low. He has a mix of theory, opinions, ideas, and experiments that I always find helpful to get started.
Musikprodd-podden: Redmount Studios Niklas Berglöf, Joakim Jarl och Magnus Lindberg have guests, deconstructs projects, talks about gear, producing music. In Swedish.
Loopop: This is like the Gerald Undone of music, solid and detailed reviews of synths, drum machines, samplers and effects.

css Tricks: A longtime source for me. Has tons of info and explanations on css.
Kevin Powell: Down to earth explanations and examples on everything css.
css Podcast: This is my go-to source when I have some time over but not infron of my laptop: 15 min on the train, in the car or out walking.
Digital Ocean tutorials: Not straight up coding tutorials but everything I’ve needed when setting up Nginx, Ubuntu, php or anything else platform or environment related I’ve found it here.’
FileFormat.info: This is the center of the Unicode universe to me!
[chatgpt]: I discuss and bounce a lot of code with chatgpt.

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.

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.

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’s 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.

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.

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
Typophile: Without a doubt one of the best typeface and typography related forum ever.
State of Webtype – Bram Stein: An up-to-date browser support data for web fonts and typographic features on the web.