Typography Websites

Typography websites can teach you more about good text than any style guide. This collection gathers ones worth bookmarking, each picked by an editor, opened and checked live, and given a short review.

Butterick's Practical Typography is Matthew Butterick's online book for anyone who writes: quotes, dashes, line spacing, line length and font choice, with real sample documents. Fonts In Use identifies the typefaces in real-world design, from record covers to signage and packaging. Method of Action turns kerning, Bézier curves and letterforms into free mini-games that train your eye. Standard Ebooks shows what careful typesetting does for reading: volunteers turn public-domain books into proofread ebooks with real typography and new covers. And Omniglot widens the view to writing systems themselves, from alphabets and syllabaries to undeciphered and invented scripts.

These type sites suit designers, writers and anyone who notices a misplaced apostrophe. The collection keeps growing as new finds are added regularly.