type/language/publishing geeking links

[chanaleh]

In honor of my first day of full-time self-employment (as it were), I present a barrage of links that will interest a certain like-minded subset of readers.

Fonts.com's For Your Typographic Information:
http://www.fonts.com/AboutFonts/Articles/fyti/index.htm

Type Trading Cards (gotta catch 'em all!):
http://www.fonts.com/AboutFonts/Articles/TypeTradingCards/

Helvetica (a film about typography, screening, incidentally, at MassArt at 7pm on April 11, sayeth c1):
http://helveticafilm.com/

Type 1 fonts for TeX use:
CTAN directory: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/amsfonts/ps-type1/
AMS: http://www.ams.org/tex/type1-fonts.html

Fontifier: Your own handwriting as a TrueType font for just $9 (yes, I got one and so did jessruth):
http://www.fontifier.com/index.html

Lorem Ipsum (all true typesetting geeks know that this refers to randomized pseudo-Latin filler text) randomizing generator:
http://www.lipsum.com/

Free online graph paper PDFs:
http://www.incompetech.com/beta/plainGraphPaper/

Glossary of bookbinding terms:
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/preserve/binding/glossary.htm

Non-typographical, but useful: Converting a photo to a "painting" in Photoshop:
http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/painted/painted.htm

Non-publishing-related, but language-geekful: the Speech Accent Archive
http://accent.gmu.edu/index.php

Bookbuilders of Boston's list of production-related publishing jobs in the greater Boston area:
http://www.bbboston.org/pageJobs.cfm

... And now, to send out a shul e-mail and hit the showers. :-D

Comments

[ursamajor]

Don't forget Identifont! ;)

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! I am also fond of What The Font... :-)

[mangosteen]

To add to the pile:

US (and UK, and German) highway fonts:
http://www.triskele.com/roadgeek-fonts/

[vanguardcdk.livejournal.com]

Neat! Although I think if I converted my handwriting into a font the publishing industry would form a mob seeking justice (and/or revenge...) ;)

[bethr.livejournal.com]

Can I have your old job?

[coraline]

i want a handwriting font now! :)

also: i need to talk to you about ketubah stuff... i've been SO lame. i assume (hope?) you've still got the files for ours so we can print it once i have the *&^%$#@! art done? i'd love to get it done by our anniversary...

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that Accent Archive is awesome!

[lyriendel.livejournal.com]

Blargle. I was just thinking, 'ooh, free fonts!' when I surfed through that first link and picked a font I liked and got to the 'buy this for $32' page. Are there free fonts out there for the picking?

[lyriendel.livejournal.com]

Ha! I should've just done a google search before posting. :)

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

I suspect it would make you at least as much of a basket case as it made me. >:-) However, I'd be happy to talk to you about it.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I should have the files, the question is *where*...! It was done on a Mac (when I was at MIT) and I'm not 100% sure where I have them archived. OTOH I should have the PDF I sent you to print from, and that may be the easiest to manipulate, just to drop the new art into the center.

[sunspiral.livejournal.com]

The idea of my handwriting (to use the term loosely) as a font just about makes my blood run cold.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

There are lots of free fonts, absolutely; it's just that the majority of them are crap in terms of professional typesetting. ;-)

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Lorem Ipsum isn't randomized! Or if it is, the randomization was done well before any of us ever used it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

:)

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Sorry -- you are correct, my description was conflating the passage and the function. The cited generator *does* create randomized variations on that original text. >:-) Likewise Quark's Jabberwocky Xtension.

[hakamadare.livejournal.com]

Free online graph paper PDFs

in addition, if you want hex grids (e.g. for gaming) instead of quadrangular grids, check out mkhexgrid.

-steve

[besamim.livejournal.com]

I agree, although some of the accents sound more "typical" than others. Neither of the "Yiddish"-accented speakers sound even vaguely Yiddish to me, not even Brooklyn-yeshivish. On the other hand, one of the Norwegian-accented speakers (female, age 33) sounds almost a dead ringer for a friend of mine (except that she has a degree of English accent as well in her speech, because her dad's English and possibly also because she spent many years studying in the U.K.).

[besamim.livejournal.com]

This is true. I've held jobs that called at times for advanced font tinkering in Acrobat, and have rarely been able to find the desired fonts for free.

[gilana]

Cool, some of those are new to me!

My addition: Before&After Magazine. Fabulous design magazine, and they have some free articles posted.

[coraline]

pdf SHOULD be fine, i assume? what format does the inserted art want to be -- i assume TIFF will work?

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

TIFF is perfect.

[bethr.livejournal.com]

but hasn't someone already filled the position?

(And, to be perfectly honest, I've forgotten what exactly it entailed, and why it was so maddening.)