Glyphs
A Mac font editor widely used by independent foundries, with a large free tutorial library.
Paid
Links
Tools for making and testing fonts, and websites worth reading about type.
Type Design Apps
Where fonts are drawn, spaced, and built.
FontLab 8
A long-standing font editor for Mac and Windows.
Paid
RoboFont
A Mac font editor built around Python scripting and extensions, popular with designers who write their own tools.
Paid
On Type.lol: Frederik Berlaen
Fontra
An open-source, browser-based font editor, with a desktop build (Fontra Pak) for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
Free
On Type.lol: Just Van Rossum, Black Foundry
FontForge
A veteran open-source font editor for Mac, Windows, and Linux, free to use.
Free
Testing & Inspecting Fonts
Drop a font in and see what it can do.
Wakamai Fondue
Drop in a font file to see its features, axes, character set, and ready-made CSS.
Free
FontDrop!
Drop in a font file to inspect its glyphs, metadata, and OpenType tables.
Free
Font Gauntlet
Drop in a font and proof it with waterfalls, animated variable axes, and glyph grids.
Free
On Type.lol: Dinamo
Axis-Praxis
A browser playground for trying variable font axes on sample text.
Free
v-fonts.com
A browsable directory of variable fonts where you can test axes live.
Free
Type Scale Tools
Sizes that relate to each other, worked out for you.
Modular Scale
Works out a typographic size scale from a base size and a ratio.
Free
Typescale
Previews a type scale in the browser and exports the CSS.
Free
Utopia
Generates fluid type and spacing scales that interpolate between two screen sizes, as CSS clamp().
Free
Reading & Research
Where type is written about, shown in use, and argued over.
Fonts In Use
A searchable archive of typefaces as they appear in real design work.
On Type.lol: Fonts In Use, Stephen Coles, Nick Sherman, Sam Berlow
Typographica
Reviews of new typefaces and type books, plus commentary.
On Type.lol: Stephen Coles
I Love Typography
A long-running type blog with interviews and Steven Heller's Font of the Month, run alongside its font store.
On Type.lol: I Love Typography
Alphabettes
A network and blog that showcases women in lettering, typography, and type design.
Typewolf
Typeface recommendations, pairings, and a site-of-the-day gallery aimed at web designers.
Type Network: Stories
Articles and news from the type licensing network.
Typotheque: Articles
Long-form essays from a foundry, many on non-Latin scripts and type history.
On Type.lol: Typotheque
Klim Type Foundry: Blog
Kris Sowersby's detailed design notes on how each Klim family was made.
On Type.lol: Klim Type Foundry
Google Fonts Knowledge
Google Fonts · Google
Free illustrated lessons and a glossary, from type basics to variable fonts.
reference, free online
On Type.lol: Google Fonts
Community & Institutions
The forums, clubs, archives, and conferences of the type world.
Type Design Resources
Justin Penner's open, community-maintained index of type design resources, from learning to running a foundry. Edited on GitHub.
TypeDrawers
The main discussion forum for type designers, covering technique, tools, and business.
Font Bureau
Where the Font Bureau archive now points, after the foundry closed.
On Type.lol: Font Bureau
https://typenetwork.com/type-foundries/font-bureau/farewell-font-bureau
Type Directors Club
The New York club behind the annual TDC competitions and *The World's Best Typography*.
Letterform Archive
A San Francisco archive of lettering and type, with an online collection, books, and courses.
ATypI
The international type association, which runs the annual conference.