Golden age of type blogs?
A whistle-stop tour through the top ten typographic weblogs
Japan-based designer John D. Boardley created his blog in order to make people more aware of the typography that’s around them. It’s updated regularly and is very active on Twitter and Flickr.
2. typeneu.com
A huge repository for all things to do with contemporary design with a strong typographic bias.
Swiss designer Xavier Encinas with his very Swiss blog focused on typography, graphic design and inspiritional matters.
The blog of Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones.
A blog about typography, letterpress and printing history by ex-Central Saint Martins student Justin Knopp.
A forum / blog system with discussion boards dedicated to all areas of type design, from identifying fonts to interviews with typographic designers.
7. slanted.de
A weblog published by MAGMA Brand Design from Karlsruhe, Germany about typography and layout. It complements their printed quarterly magazine.
Brighton-based designer Aegir Hallmundur’s blog about type, typography, lettering, calligraphy and other related things.
Erik Spiekermann, self-confessed sufferer of ‘Typomania’, gives his typographic perspective on a variety of things in his Spiekerblog.
10. typetheory.com
Another aggregator that pulls together all manner of posts on contemporary typography, created by US designer Ty Wilkins.
The latest issue of Eye (no. 71 vol. 18) is a Type special. Get it today!
Look out for more type articles during Eye’s (increasingly inaccurately titled) ‘Type week’.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:55 am | by Stephen
No FontFeed? Ouch.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:11 am | by Stephen
Or Typographer.org or MyFonts Blog or Type 101.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:13 am | by Stephen
Or these.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:35 am | by Rob Keller
Yeah, well not every list can be identical now can they? or I should say - they shouldn’t all be the same.
In any case, these “top ten” lists are really just too condensed for the amount of great content out there now. They need to be at least 20 or 30 to begin to cover the top sites…
April 14th, 2009 at 10:38 am | by Stephen Coles
Or rather say something interesting and probing (Eye-like!) about the sites as they have been listed so many times there could be a list of the lists.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:46 am | by Simon Robertson
i agree with stephen. please write something interesting about why they were chosen. and ditto the fontfeed, one of the *the* best typeblogs around.
April 14th, 2009 at 11:19 am | by Irene Hoffman
Surely Typophile should come first based on the number of active contributers and range of topics – from advice and critiques to competitions, news and comments.
April 14th, 2009 at 12:49 pm | by Sour Grapes
You know Stephen not every list needs to have all of your blogs on it. And anyway you seem to do a fine enough job of using one venture to promote the rest, especially when one blog bestows an award on the others. Do they call it blogrolling?
April 14th, 2009 at 3:08 pm | by Stephen Coles
Not sure what “award” you mean, but I admit you have a point about my sourness. I wrote that late last night in a fit of frustration at the missed mentions.
Still, your arguments would have more weight if you had the courage to print your name.
April 14th, 2009 at 3:26 pm | by Rudy
I also agree with Simon, a little explanation on “why” these are listed would be very welcome. I really doubt : “chosen by an anonymous panel of industry experts using strictly scientific principles “
April 14th, 2009 at 5:25 pm | by Chris Lozos
“…chosen by an anonymous panel of industry experts using strictly scientific principles…”
I am quite sure that your experts were I.M. Lister, Lister Bag, Franz Lizst, and Let Her Man List and that they received their expertise while working for People Magazine.
If I have made any errors above. Please post corrections along with the criteria used for choice.
Thanks!
Dezcom
April 14th, 2009 at 5:56 pm | by Dezcom
I find this blog list from Eye interesting given this link:
http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature.php?id=85&fid=452
ChrisL
April 14th, 2009 at 6:49 pm | by Zara
Flattered to see Typophile on this list, but we are not a blog. Never have been. “Online Typographic Resources” might be a better title.
And who can actually read this captcha s**t?
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April 15th, 2009 at 12:41 pm | by Jessica P
Irene comments ‘Surely Typophile should come first based on the number of active contributers and range of topics ‘. With that reasoning then Hotmail is the best email service in the world, Comic Sans the best font and Tescos the best supermarket. A rating system based on the hoard opinion is not always a stamp of approval.
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April 15th, 2009 at 2:04 pm | by Irene
Re: Jessica’s comments to my comments, I didn’t make myself clear. I was not referring to ‘hoard opinion’ but rather a quality aggregate of input as opposed to I Love Typography which, I believe is written by a single, albeit, talented and prolific person. So, not the numbers of followers, which I’m sure I Love Typography has, but rather number of quality contributors.
Anyway, Zara has pointed out Typophile is not a blog, so I stand corrected (although there is a BLOG function on it).
April 15th, 2009 at 9:47 pm | by Agree with sour grapes.
I agree wholeheartedly with Sour Grapes. Only 1/10 of these is a shill blog (H&F-J), and that is done well. I am surprised that Typophile even made the list, given that about only 20 people keep on posting over and over and over. Maybe it should do the honourable thing and hari-kiri like speakup.
To “say something interesting and probing” is exactly what the fontfeed et al blogs do not do. Their purpose is to shill, it’s thinly veiled and cringe-worthy. Thanks for telling it like it is, eye.
April 15th, 2009 at 9:54 pm | by Stephen Coles
I’ll let the readers of the FontFeed and Typophile tell you if those sites are useful to them and why.
But I do wonder: why do those rebutting my complaint refrain from stating their names? Have they no faith in their argument?
April 15th, 2009 at 10:44 pm | by erik
I am surprised that Typophile even made the list, given that about only 20 people keep on posting over and over and over.
Blogs are normally one person posting only. The others are commentators. That is why Typophile is not a blog, and that is why this criticism of it isn’t valid.
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April 16th, 2009 at 10:33 am | by admin
@Zara thanks for your comment
unfortunately there seem to be lots of spammers who *can* read what you charmingly term ‘this captcha s**t?’
so . . . is Typofile a blog, not a blog, or maybe a half-blog or a bit of a blog . . . it looks quite bloggy to our weary type department
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April 16th, 2009 at 2:37 pm | by Jaypeg
In response to Erik:
Technically I suppose that Typophile is a discussion board/forum, but it does have a blog so it is relevant to the list. I think the main question is are these sites interesting to read and by whom? A type blog could be criticised for only ever posting up links to newly released fonts, that might be why it is favourite of another reader. Maybe a community of 2o close knit commentors is more important than one author. It seems rather subjective.
Perhaps people might talk about what makes a type blog good in their eyes and offer further suggestions?
I recommend the new FFFFound for type!
http://welovetypography.com/
I like it because it has few words and lots of pictures
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April 25th, 2009 at 9:35 am | by Vince
This is a really great top ten list. Typography.com is a classic, Jonathan and Tobias do great work. You can post this to our site http://www.toptentopten.com/ and then link back to your site. We are looking for top ten lists and our users can track back to your site. The coolest feature is you can let other people vote on the rankings of your list.
April 27th, 2009 at 2:13 am | by Ty Wilkins
Hi, this is Ty from Type Theory. Thanks for the shout out!
One small note: You mention that Type Theory is an “aggregator”, which often connotes that the content is automatically generated using algorithms. However this is not the case. Each article on Type Theory is written and posted by a human (me).
Stephen, I really like the newly redesigned Typographica.org!
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