Typography Resources
A thread for posting and discussing resources relating to fonts and typography.
Here are a few resources to start things off.
Typography education
http://www.fontshop.com/education/
a collection of pdf documents from fontshop.com that cover all sorts of topics related to typography and fonts.
Howzit done
A thread started by Gary Bouton in which he provides a tutorial showing how to create your own typeface of special characters using Fontlab.
http://webtypography.net/
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web - a practical guide to web typography
Anatomy of a letterform
An article on DesignModo that explains some basic typography terms.
Font Identification tools
Name That Font
TG's own font identification and recommendation service
whatthefont.comhttp://www.whatthefont.com/
identifont.com
whatfontis.com
Other resources
Font First Aid
A new service only on Talkgraphics! Got a free font that has problems that you can let us fix?
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