FontGenius For Mac (Font Search Identification)

FontGenius is a font search and identification utility for Macintosh. FontGenius examines pictures and identifies typefaces of any text within a picture. Using advanced recognition technology, FontGenius will produce a list of likely fonts that match selected characters within an image, and will generate character previews of the matched fonts.

FontGenius can match both installed fonts and uninstalled fonts using a built in font profile database. An internet search can also be performed on the list of results to locate, purchase, and/or download matched fonts.

FontGenius supports most image file formats, and can even grab an image right from your desktop.

Layering Tool for Distressed Type

Courtesy of You Work For Them

Handrawn Lettering/Experimental Typography

Focusing on an ordinary subject that we see each day, often by the hundreds of thousands, Alphabet presents 26 letters as more than just shapes for conveying information. The 51 artists and designers in this show conceive and interpret the alphabet in surprising and inventive ways, ranging from graceful and polished to witty and unconventional. The 63 alphabets featured in Alphabet were created by artists in North America, Europe, and Asia, and represent work from well-known typographers and designers as well as rising artists and design students.

Alphabet: An Exhibition of Hand-Drawn Lettering and Experimental Typography

FontCase for mac

This is a professional font management program from fontshop recommended by Genevieve.

"We Tell Stories: Hard Times"

Designer Nicholas Felton's site:
http://feltron.com/index.php

The Penguin site:
http://wetellstories.co.uk/stories/week5/#cover

Periodic Table of Typefaces |

"The Periodic Table of Typefaces is obviously in the style of all the thousands of over-sized Periodic Table of Elements posters hanging in schools and homes around the world. This particular table lists 100 of the most popular, influential and notorious typefaces today." - Cam

Eye Magazine | Type Blog

Edward Tufte One Day Course: NYC

TypeNeu | An Odyssey in Typography

The Grid System - Updated

Made popular by the International Typographic Style movement and pioneered by legends like Josef Müller-Brockmann and Wim Crouwel, the grid is the foundation of any solid design. The Grid System is an ever-growing resource where graphic designers can learn about grid systems, the golden ratio and baseline grids.