Other Typographic Web Resources

Identifont - Identifont, where have you been all my life? How many times have I seen a typeface and wondered what it was? There was a time when I was pretty good at typeface identification, but even then I spent plenty of time flipping through type books in search of the identity of that special face. Identifont is an online tool that asks a series of questions about the face you’re trying to identify. You can even tell Identifont what letter you have to compare to so if your trying to match a font in a particular headline and you only have those letters to go on, it will ask questions based on the sample letters you have. I've found it to be very helpful and accurate. At the very least it ends up showing faces that are very similar to the one being sought.

Type Navigator - A interactive visual font search tool.

Typophile - A typography blog. Jump into the fray and talk type with other type types.

Thinking with Type - A great educational resource for learning and applying typography.

Adobe Glossary of Type Terms - For a quick reference of type terms.

Typographi.com - Another great typography blog with RSS feed - sign up!

Font Tester - Another font specification site like Typetester. Not as pretty as Typetester but has even more CSS attributes to choose from.

In my opinion, the web will never be able to achieve the heights of typographic beauty that the printed page can. That's mostly because I consider the toothy impression of letter-press printed on slightly dampened handmade paper to be the utmost in typographic beauty. This would do very bad things to computer monitors. Nevertheless, the range of typographic control has improved. The tools available, even for the non-web designer, to help specify web typography now make it possible for all the typophiles out there that used to cringe at the web to take up the challenge of beautifying the web with thoughtful, typographic composition. And that's a good thing.