100 Top Resources for Typography and Hand-Lettering

Best Typography Resources

Some of the questions we hear asked often around the design community are:

What is the best way to learn about typography?
Where do I find the best hand-lettering/type inspiration?
Who are your favorite letterers?
What are the best typography and and lettering tutorials?

We decided to pull together some of our very favorite typography and design resources for you today. Here’s what you’ll find below:

Some of our favorite hand-letterers and typographers (some modern day experts on type, you might say!)
Online educational resources
Awesome type and hand-lettering tutorials
Best sources of type and hand-lettering inspiration we’ve found
Super inspirational found-type collection posts
Books about type and hand-lettering

Off we go!

Talented folks

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Seb Lester
Stephen Coles

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Will Staehle
Alex Trochut

Online Education:

An introduction to typography: some basics from our friends at Tuts Plus
Font Shop: Improve your design skills with typography tips and tutorials.

Font Feed: is a daily dispatch of recommended fonts, typography techniques, and inspirational examples of digital type at work in the real world. Eat up.
Fonts in Use: an independent archive of typography
Designing Type Systems – a post by Peter Bilak
Learn Lettering: a course by Sean McCabe
Jessica Hische’s Thoughts: Jessica shares answers to frequently asked questions
Lettering for Designers: One Drop Cap Letterform at a Time: a Skillshare Class by Jessica Hische

Lettering Made Simple: Efficient Methods for Custom Type: a Skillshare Class by Brandon Rike
Nice Web Type: is one place for web typography, following experiments, advancements, and best practices in typesetting web text. Handcrafted by Tim Brown

Sean McCabe’s Podcast | Recommended Resources
Stephen Coles Answers to Type Questions: 9 pages of Stephen’s answers to your burning questions about type
The First Steps of Hand Lettering: Concepts to Sketch: a Skillshare Class by Mary Kate McDevitt
Typedia: a community website to classify typefaces and educate people about them.
Understanding The Difference Between Type and Lettering: a must-read by Joseph Alessio on Smashing Magazine
Webtypography.net: the elements of typographic style applied to the web
Woodtyper: notes on large and ornamental type and related matters
Typography First: A web designer’s guide to typography

Tutorials:

Hunters & Gatherers Hand Lettering Tutorial: Techniques from Concept through Completion – on Go Media’s Arsenal

A Crash Course in Typography: The Basics of Type – on Noupe.com
A Crash Course in Typography: Paragraphs and Special Characters – on Noupe.com
A Crash Course in Typography: Principles for Combining Typefaces – on Noupe.com
A Crash Course in Typography: Pulling it All Together – on Noupe.com
DD Tutorial: From Start to Finish: from sketch to vector illustration

How to Design A Font: {Part 1} Get Inspired! – by Katie Major on the GoMediaZine
How To Design a Font: {Part2} Draw Up A Storm! -by Katie Major on the GoMediaZine
How to Design a Font: {Part 3} Make it Digital! – by Katie Major on the GoMediaZine
How to Design a Font: {Part 4} Finishing Touches! – by Katie Major on the GoMediaZine
How to Make Any Font a Handmade Font on Creative Market
Old School Type – Line Gradients by Jeff Finley on the GoMediaZine
Ornate Lettering Process by Jeff Finley on the GoMediaZine
Typography in ten minutes on PracticalTypography.com
Vintage Typography Tutorial – by Bobby Haiqalsyah on the GoMediaZine
12 Sources of Inspiration for Creating Your Own Lettering or Typeface Designs on the Go MediaZine

Inspiration:

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Daily Dishonesty: lovely little lies from a hungry graphic designer
Daily Drop Cap: a font project by designer Jessica Hische
Designspiration: search found type, lettering, script, calligraphy inspiration
FontShop: Improve your design skills with typography tips & tutorials. Free downloads & goodies galore!

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Friends of Type: original art for inspiration

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Designspiration: a resource to help discover and share great design
I love Typography: articles, free fonts, found fonts
Fonts in Use: an independent archive of typography
Ministry of Type: a weblog by Aegir Hallmunder about type, typography, lettering & calligraphy