Online books & resources

Luke Freeman
Luke Freeman Posts: 61
edited May 2016 in Education
For those who struggle to find books in print relating to designing type. I have came across some out of print books, thought might be worth sharing. Some are extracts some in full.

[links removed by moderator, see note below]

Videos

Gerrit Noordzij on drawing


Masterclass - Christian Schwartz (crit he gives on students work, helps you rethink drawing letters and when used contextually)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B20evHOupMY

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  • John Hudson
    John Hudson Posts: 3,227
    edited May 2016
    A ragbag of papers and presentations I've given in recent years:
    http://tiro.com/John/

    Most recently, my TYPO Labs presentation on making complex script fonts for the Universal Shaping Engine:
    http://tiro.com/John/Universal_Shaping_Engine_TYPOLabs.pdf
  • Nina Stössinger
    Nina Stössinger Posts: 155
    Also see this pretty epic recent list of videos:
    http://typedrawers.com/discussion/1041/type-design-videos/p1

    @Fernando Díaz has posted them on a website too:
    http://typedrawers.com/discussion/1088/typography-videos-website/p1

    Also, never forget Archive.org has a bunch of digitized specimen books.
  • Thomas Phinney
    Thomas Phinney Posts: 2,896
    edited May 2016
    So, if something is out of print, it is OK to post an electronic version of it? That is an interesting interpretation of copyright law.

    I grant that most of these are very far out of print and used copies are selling at very high prices. I don’t think that much affects the legalities of it, though. (And of course Elements is not out of print at all.)
  • Dan Reynolds
    Dan Reynolds Posts: 176
    Right. A moderator should delete those links. I can’t imagine that, if these were links to font files, they would be tolerated here. 
  • Nina Stössinger
    Nina Stössinger Posts: 155
    edited May 2016
    [Moderator note to above]
    Indeed we have discussed this among the moderation team, and I have removed the links from the original post. Unauthorized reproductions of copyrighted materials have no place on TypeDrawers; we (of all people!) need to be serious about respecting intellectual property. The idea is that any intellectual property may only be shared here by the original copyright holder, or the links/information will be removed.
    Obviously this is in no way meant to discourage people from reading awesome, valuable, out-of-print books – may I point for instance to that awesome institution the library. :)
    As you were.

    [Edit: the official rules have been updated to clearly reflect this policy.]
  • Luke Freeman
    Luke Freeman Posts: 61
    Sorry to all, if my post breached rules. Here is a link to something to make up for it 

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