Classical typesetters have delivered custom typography since the 15th century. Internet could not until now… Western typography had professional typefaces since the 15th century. Vietnamese still not has good-looking publishing fonts until now…
n my career, it’s among my habits to ask people whether they really understand basic things, it turned out many many times that it’s not so easy with even the basic programming techniques, basic algorithms & data structures… 😢 Just like the a, b, c… in the alphabetical table, even write a character down in a beautiful manner is not easy! Below I would try to cover some resources in learning the use of typefaces in designing.
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Typefaces: basic terminology and classification.
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A page to test your typefaces: typetester.org.
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The legendary Helvetica: with its inferior copy Arial, a celebration on Helvetica’s 50th birthday.
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Embed custom typefaces on WWW using: EOT, Flash (sIFR) or JavaScript (typeface.js).
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Google web font API is some advances toward more versatile typefaces on the Web.
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Collection of 80 excellent Vietnamese fonts (PostScript type 1) used for games, cartoon and designs (from biqit.com).
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Collection of good general – purpose Vietnamese Unicode fonts (from tti-us.com)