Inspiration
June 15, 2009 by Steven Snell57 Comments1235 views
Typography is one of the favorite parts of design for many of us, and finding new and helpful sources of typographical inspiration can often help to improve the use of type in our own work. Last week I launched a new gallery site, TypeInspire, dedicated to typography. I thought it would be worth while for those of you who are typography lovers to point out what I feel are some of the best resources available for receiving inspiration of this kind from the works of other designers. Although TypeInspire is new, I hope that it will become a valuable resource to the design community much like the sites that are featured in this list.
Typography Inspiration:
30 of the Best Sources for Typography Inspiration:
Typography Served is a gallery from the Behance Network. It features a wide variety of work and is easily one of teh best sources for typography inspiration.
Pattern Tap is a unique web design gallery that makes very effective use of different categories of inspiration. The typography section showcases many websites with great use of typography.
Design You Trust, Type Category
Design You Trust is a design blog that is open to the public where members can register and share inspiration that they have come across. The typography category has tons of great inspirational pieces.
Vi.sualize.us is an image bookmarking service where users can tag the items that they want to bookmark. You can browse the typography tag to see the items that have been bookmarked by users.
We Heart It is also an image bookmarking service. Again, it uses tags to organize the site and you can browse through the images that have been tagged with typography.
Typeish is an image bookmarking service that categorizes the items that are bookmarked. The typography category will provide inspiration from the items that have been bookmarked by other users.
deviantART, Typography Category
deviantART is a favorite source for all kinds of design inspiration. The typography category is no exception.
Behance Network, Typography Category
Like deviantART, Behance is a popular site where designers can showcase their work. The typography category provides plenty of inspiration from talented designers.
We Love Typography is a community-based site where readers can submit items for inclusion on the site.
I Love Typography is a very popular blog that focuses on all things related to type and fonts.
Type Theory is a fairly new blog that provides news, reviews, information and inspiration related to typography and fonts.
Typesites is a design gallery that features websites with exemplary use of typography. There are not a lot of sites added to the gallery, but those that are in the archives provide plenty of inspiration.
Use Typography is a gallery of websites that make excellent use of typography. You can browse the archives by date, designer, and by the fonts that are used.
Typophile includes font and typography news and information.
TypeNeu’s tagline is “an oddesy in typography” and that is pretty accurate. Typography lovers will find inspiration that comes from a variety of different types of art and design at TypeNeu.
The Font Feed is updated almost every day with inspirational works of typography, fonts, and related work.
Typographica provides type reviews, books and commentary on typography in design. It’s a great source for anyone who is looking to learn more or to be inspired by type.
The Type Directors Club is an organization that exists to support excellence in typography. On the site you will find news and inspiration.
Type for Your is a blog that provides articles and inspiration. The blog is no longer being updated, but the archives can still be a valuable source of inspiration.
Typographer is a blog that provides typography news and reviews of fonts.
Upscale Typography is a blog run by Parachute, an independent typefoundry. On the blog you will find news, information and inspiration.
Slanted is a German typography blog. If you’re like me and you don’t speak German, you can still find plenty of inspiration from the images on the site.
Flickr Groups for Typography Inspiration:
Flickr groups can also be excellent sources for design inspiration. Fortunately, there are a number of groups that feature typographic works. I won’t go into the details of each as they all exist for basically the same purpose and they all showcase the work of many Flickr users.
For more typography inspiration, please see:
- Typography Inspiration Showcase
- 35 Type-Based Logos
- Inspirational Text Effects
Steven Snell
Stephen Snell is the owner and editor of Vandelay Design, a popular design blog.
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June 16, 2009
Wonderful collection, thanks so much. This is my first visit, really like your content. It your on twitter I am going to follow you. Cheerio!
June 16, 2009
No wonder I like this site, I just saw the Vandelay Design info on the bottom right! Well, Cheerio again 😛
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June 16, 2009
Great collection. Thanks for sharing
Tony
June 16, 2009
What an awesome source of links! I bookmarked my favorites. Thank you very much!
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June 16, 2009
Really nice post very inspirational
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June 16, 2009
pretty.. thanks.
June 16, 2009
Really useful article Steven.
Thanks for taking the time to share 😀
Steven Snell
June 16, 2009
Lauren,
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June 16, 2009
Some brilliant examples of resources for typography, with “upscale typography” the man constructed from type and “graphic design and typography” the pink 3 dimensional, words with a realistic feel.
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June 16, 2009
I can’t get enough of typography, thanks Vandelay!
June 17, 2009
Very comprehensive and inspirational post! Some sites I never knew, thank you for sharing.
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June 18, 2009
Love the textures
June 19, 2009
I really like this resourceful site. I have even shared it with all the team members in my office.
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June 21, 2009
Finally i find this post, thanks guys, best list with typography inspiration, thanks again
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July 1, 2009
Thanks so much for the list–lots of cool sites I’ve never heard of before.
July 12, 2009
Thanks for showing my work, don’t forget to check DailyType.com
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July 20, 2009
Thanks so much for the list nice collection
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October 8, 2009
It’s awesome, amazingly out-standing and shows creativity, functionality and furthers imagination as well.
In a word, VERY COOL !First time viewer and attracted my attention.
Thanks! This will be helpful!
February 10, 2010
Love this !
May 2, 2010
Typography and websites still have a little way to go until they’re as good as in the print medium…ligatures would be nice…and an greater range of cross platform compatible fonts would be great too.
May 4, 2010
Great article – thanks. I’ve read several articles from Vandelay Design, and liked them as well. Great stuff.
June 7, 2010
Typography joy! Thanks for the article.
July 18, 2010
thanks a lot for sharing!!
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thanks a lot for sharing!!
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Thanks for the list, I never new about Flickr Groups before this post learn something new every day.
November 4, 2010
awesome collection….thanks for sharing….
January 3, 2011
awesome… nice share.. thank.. you rockk
January 11, 2011
Really useful and pretty, thanks.
January 27, 2011
Thanks for spending the time to publish this. I know it requires a lot of effort
April 7, 2011
I was very delighted to find this site.
April 19, 2011
Thanks for sharing. A real lot of useful info here!
April 25, 2011
Also check http://www.designget.com it’s amazing
June 28, 2011
Thanks for taking time to share this very helpful information!
July 5, 2011
Also check http://www.entercaps.com it’s amazing
