How wonderfully geeky is this?
If you are the kind of person that regularly ponders questions like: "Hmmm, which Sans-serif, Humanist font would work best here?" or "Who created the Times font?", then the Periodic Table of Typefaces is for you!
It covers a number of major fonts and includes information about the family and classification of each, the designer, the year the font was designed, and a ranking as cribbed from a number of internet sources.
So, download the hefty image (3150x2100, 1.6MB JPEG), set it as your desktop, and give your inner font geek free range.
[Thanks to Lifehacker for the tip!]
Further reading about fonts and multilingual desktop publishing:
- Who thought there would be a full-length movie about fonts? Well, there is.
- It's too bad that Asian fonts are not covered in the periodic table of typefaces; there are cool developments underway for instance with unified Chinese and Japanese fonts.
- Speaking of double-byte fonts, getting multilingual layouts "right" takes some planning.
- Want to add tools to your DTP tool chest? Check out this collection of free tools.
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