Ilovetypography.com, and their article “15 excellent examples of web typography”: the site itself is an exhaustive collection of everything typography. I seriously was amazed at the amout of links running down the right column to articles dealing with everything from designing a font from scratch to what Freud would think the types of fonts we use say about us. In the “15 examples” list, there was a particularly cool site noted called “Quipsologies” that had a really neat logo and a brown and orange theme; it looks like something I’d peruse in a coffee shop.
Typographica.org: I really loved the look of this site. It has a really old school, newspaper type of feel. I think even if I hated the site in general I would still be impressed because it’s the only site I’ve seen this far that includes a colophon at the bottom of the page. “Colophon” is a term I have not heard since my high school yearbook days. The whole “journalistic” (the only word I can think to use) look was awesome.
Microsoft typography: I expected this site to be more functional than beautiful, which ended up being the case. But there were good resources for choosing and using different fonts and a decent FAQ section. I always appreciate an FAQ section on a web site.
ABC typography: this site was initially appealing to me with it being a “museum” of typography, but I got really frustrated at clicking on broken link after broken link. So I didn’t get to see the information on very many types of fonts. On the ones I did see, I liked the simplicity of a description of the font, an example of it, and the “id card” showing where it was created, by who and when, and any links.
A list apart: Too often I’ve found myself getting overwhelmed with really technical sites, since I don’t consider myself a really technical person. This site seems to strike the rare balance of technical and user friendly. It has links to several articles that I can totally see going back to reread as I fine tune my own web site.
TypoGraphic: This was a really neat site. I loved the page showing the evolution or letterform from Egyptian to Hebrew to Phoenician to Greek to Roman. I generally like timelines but the one on this site I found a little confusing because there were a few entries for people’s dates of birth and death with no further information listed about them. I assume they were listed at all because they contributed something relevant to typography, but it seems kind of random to list them and not note why they’re included on the timeline. I loved a font called “pilot” in the site’s typeface gallery.
Digital Magazine: This was a really great site dealing with how to incorporate good typography choices into CSS. I particularly appreciated one section that noted that most readers “scan” rather than read word for word, and that attention really needs to be paid to elements like headings and bulleted lists.
Noupe.com: “Using CSS to fix anything” Great article with easy to follow directions to remedy various glitches. I get the impression that using internet explorer results in a lot more problems than using Firefox.
Designsnips: Profiles well-designed web sites and rates them in different areas such as tabbing, textures, and navigation. I always appreciate examples of how to do things the right way, so this may be another site I consult again while I’m finishing up my project.