Chapters 8, 9, and 10: Working with Text

Links: Typography

• typoGRAPHIC
  Guides you through the history and theory of good typography.
• Typesetting and Publishing Glossary
  From acetate to x-height.
• The Fonts FAQ
  Common questions about fonts.
• Webmonkey: Why Type on the Web is so Bad
  A typography purist on the Web's lack of said art.
• Type Me, Type Me Not
  Experiments in digital type.

Links: Embedded Fonts

• Webmonkey: Intro to Embedded Fonts
  Where embedded fonts stand right now, and how to use them.
• webreview.com: Font Embedding for the Web
  A great introduction.
• Microsoft Web Embedding Fonts Tool (WEFT)
  For embedding fonts with Internet Explorer 4.x.
• HexWeb Typograph 2.0
  For embedding fonts with Netscape Navigator 4.x.
• Webmonkey: Are You Stealing Fonts?
  Font embedding and intellectual property.

Links: Commercial Type Foundries

• TypeArt Foundry
  Lots of faces, with tips, tricks, and games.
• Pyrus Typography Tools and Resources
  Product demos and downloads of font-creation tools.
• Adobe Type
  The king of PostScript.

Downloads: Free Fonts & Utilities

[Note: Until font embedding is a more widely-practiced reality, choose fonts wisely. Without embedding, it doesn't matter how many fonts you install; your readers won't see the text in that face if they also don't have it installed.]

• Chank
  Font designer extraordinaire. Site has not only free fonts (both PC and Mac, in most cases), but high entertainment value.
• Eyesaw Fonts
  Also a damn good-looking page.
• Larabie Fonts
  For both PC and Mac. Includes a PC-to-Mac font conversion utility.
• Divide by Zero Fonts
  Tom's free TrueType fonts.
• Microsoft Typography
  All about TrueType and OpenType fonts, including free fonts and utilities.
• Fontastic
  TrueType font archive.
• CrossFont
  A shareware Mac-to-PC and PC-to-Mac font converter.

Links: Characters, Paragraphs, and Block Formatting

• About Character Formatting in HTML
  From Index Dot HTML, Blooberry.com's excellent HTML reference site.
• About Block Formatting in HTML
  From Index Dot HTML.

Links: Special Characters, etc.

• About Special Characters
  How they work and why they're necessary.
• ISO Character Set
  Codes for special characters in HTML.
• Special HTML Characters
  Just the most common ones, with the codes.
• MS Windows Characters
  And how to translate them to HTML characters.
• Demoronizer
  Correct the sloppy characters supplied by some Microsoft programs when converting to HTML.