Links

Education
Type & Media, the postgraduate course of the Royal Academy in The Hague, The Netherlands.
http://new.typemedia.org/

More of an experimental design studio than a school, Werkplaats Typographie is a postgraduate graphic design course led by Karel Martens and Armand Mevis, in Arnhem, The Netherlands.
http://www.werkplaatstypografie.org

MA course in Type Design at The University of Reading, Berkshire, England, UK.
http://www.typedesign.rdg.ac.uk

Academic resource
Ellen Lupton's teaching curriculum at Maryland Institute (MICA).
http://www.designwritingresearch.org/teaching.html

Ellen Lupton's highly accessible typography book.
http://www.thinkingwithtype.com

Mark Jamra's typeculture website contains academic resources.
http://www.typeculture.com/academic_resource

Ben Archer's reference website for 100 significant typeface designs.
http://www.100types.com

Font tools
The interface may not look much, but FontLab is the only up-to-date font design tool.
http://www.fontlab.com

MetricsMachine is not a tool for everyone, but the few people who use it can't thank Tal Leming enough for making it.
http://www.typesupply.com

Another application (or rather, a set of scripts by Erik van Blokland, Tal Leming and Just van Rossum), which we use daily to make fonts.
http://www.robofab.com

Tool for the masses; online bitmap font editor.
http://www.pentacom.jp/soft/ex/font/edit.html

Languages and Scripts
Michael Everson is an expert on the writing systems of the world.
http://www.evertype.com

Information on writing systems and alphabetical systems.
http://www.omniglot.com

A rather impressive database of languages and their character sets.
http://www.eki.ee/letter

The Alphabet Synthesis Machine.
http://alphabet.tmema.org

Design Reading
Highly recommended design journal.
http://www.designobserver.com

Voice, the AIGA Journal of Design, edited by Steven Heller.
http://journal.aiga.org

A collection of texts edited by Peter Hall at the Design Institute at the University of Minnesota.
http://design.umn.edu/go/to/kc

The ever-inspirational McSweeney's, presenting the literary output of Dave Eggers.
http://www.mcsweeneys.net

Milton Glaser's '10 Things I Have Learned'.
http://www.miltonglaserposters.com/news/pub_10.htm

Slanted magazine and weblog is all about typography and design.
http://www.slanted.de

Other
Czech and Slovak Type design between now and 1995.
http://www.e-a-t.org

Johanna is one of the EAT initiators.
http://www.johanna.sk

Designspotter is a daily design web magazine.
http://www.designspotter.com