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More on the way, I promise.\n\n### Contributing\nUh, please do?\n\n### Required Reading\n- [\"Web Design is 95% Typography\"](http://ia.net/blog/the-web-is-all-about-typography-period/) by Oliver Reichenstein\n- [\"On Web Typography\"](http://alistapart.com/article/on-web-typography) by Jason Santa Maria\n- [\"Upping Your Type Game\"](http://jessicahische.is/talkingtype) by Jessica Hische\n- [\"Why Typography Matters\"](https://medium.com/typography/why-typography-matters-14449aae4609) by Max Brody\n- [\"UI is visible. Type is visible.\"](http://markboulton.co.uk/journal/invisibletype) by Mark Boulton\n\n### Finding \u0026 Using Type\n- [\"5 Faces for UI Design\"](http://typecast.com/blog/type-on-screen-5-faces-for-ui-design) by Daniel Eden\n- [\"Superhero Superfamilies\"](http://typecast.com/blog/type-on-screen-superhero-superfamilies) by Daniel Eden\n- [\"Choosing Type and Finding Fonts\"](http://www.robbiemanson.com/articles/choosing-type-and-finding-fonts/) by Robbie Mason\n- [\"The Voices of Type\"](http://typecast.com/blog/the-voices-of-type) by Eben Sorkin\n- [\"Pairing Typefaces\"](http://blog.typekit.com/2012/05/23/type-study-pairing-typefaces/) by Mandy Brown\n- [\"Design By Numbers: Typography\"](https://medium.com/@_dte/design-by-numbers-typography-2e5fd2f262e4) by Daniel Eden\n- [\"There is no excuse for bad typography on the web.\"](https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/there-is-no-excuse-for-bad-typography-on-the-web-33030766a5bd) by Joshua Eithun\n- [\"Run Ragged\"](http://24ways.org/2013/run-ragged/) by Mark Boulton\n- [\"Typ.io\"](http://www.typ.io/)\n- [\"7 Alternatives to Popular Web Typefaces for Better Performance\"](http://cognition.happycog.com/article/7-alternatives-to-popular-web-typefaces-for-better-performance) by Katie Kovalcin\n- [\"Selecting Typefaces for Body Text\"](http://practice.typekit.com/lesson/selecting-typefaces-for-body-text/) by Tim Brown\n\n### CSS\n- [\"Responsive Typography | ARWHD\"](http://arwhd.co/css/2014/10/08/responsive-typography/) by Charles Peters\n- [\"Fluid Type\"](http://trentwalton.com/2012/06/19/fluid-type/) by Trent Walton\n- [\"Typesetting your CSS Objects\"](http://www.edenspiekermann.com/blog/typesetting-your-css-objects) by Spiros Martzoukos\n- [\"Aligning type to baseline the right way using SASS\"](https://medium.com/@razvanonofrei/aligning-type-to-baseline-the-right-way-using-sass-e258fce47a9b) by Razvan Onofrei\n- [\"Optimize Legibility\"](http://usabilitypost.com/2012/11/06/optimize-legibility/) by Dmitry Fadeyev\n- [\"Please Stop Fixing Font Smoothing\"](http://usabilitypost.com/2012/11/05/stop-fixing-font-smoothing/) by Dmitry Fadeyev\n- [\"Hyphens, Text Rendering, and Font Feature Settings\"](http://www.sitepoint.com/cross-browser-web-fonts-part-3/) by Chris Mills\n- [\"Readable, Fluid Type With Basic CSS Smarts\"](http://typecast.com/blog/readable-fluid-type-with-basic-css-smarts) by Val Head\n- [\"There’s more to the CSS rem unit than font sizing\"](http://css-tricks.com/theres-more-to-the-css-rem-unit-than-font-sizing/) by Roman Rudenko\n- [\"Font Sizing Idea\"](http://css-tricks.com/rems-ems/) by Chris Coyier\n- [\"Minimising Font Downloads\"](http://jakearchibald.com/2014/minimising-font-downloads/) by Jake Archibald\n- [\"Loading webfonts with high performance on responsive websites\"](http://bdadam.com/blog/loading-webfonts-with-high-performance.html) by Adam Beres-Deak\n\n### Online Tools\n\n- [Scale \u0026 Rhythm](http://lamb.cc/typograph/)\n- [Type Set With Me](http://typesetwith.me/)\n- [Type Scale](http://type-scale.com/)\n- [FFFFallback](http://ffffallback.com/) — A simple tool for bulletproof web typography.\n- [Type.css](http://mrmrs.io/type.css/) — A mobile first responsive type scale\n- [CSS Font Stack](http://cssfontstack.com/) — A complete collection of web safe CSS font stacks and web font CSS.\n\n### Purely Visually Stimulating\n- [\"Whitespace\"](https://medium.com/designing-medium/whitespace-8b92273ab49e) by Marcin Wichary\n- [\"Google Web Fonts Typographic Project\"](http://femmebot.github.io/google-type/) by Phoebe E\n\n### Blogs\n\n### Books\n- [_Butterick’s Practical Typography_](http://practicaltypography.com/) by Matthew Butterick\n- [_On Web Typography_](http://www.abookapart.com/products/on-web-typography) by Jason Santa Maria ([excerpt](http://alistapart.com/article/how-we-read))\n- [_Advanced Web Typography_](http://advancedwebtypography.com/) by Elliott Jay Stocks (forthcoming)\n\n### Open Source Typefaces\n\n- Open Sans\n- Fira Sans\n- Fira Mono\n- Source Sans Pro\n- Source Serif Pro\n- Playfair\n- Roboto\n- Clear Sans\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fcharliewilco%2Ftype-findings","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fcharliewilco%2Ftype-findings","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fcharliewilco%2Ftype-findings/lists"}