COMD Student Resources

https://www.citytech.cuny.edu/communication-design/student-resources.aspx

COMD Advisement

Type Design Portals

• Typeroom Showcasing outstanding typographic works from around the globe
• Typographic Posters Archive of contemporary global typographic poster
• Type Directors Club
• Typewolf Typography inspiration.
• Letterform Archive 60,000 items, lettering, typography, calligraphy, graphic design, spanning thousands of years of history.
• Fontology
• Type Connection curated type resources
• Typographica
• Typography Guru

Free Fonts

• https://www.fontsquirrel.com
• 1001freefonts.com
• fontspace.com
• fontshop.com
• http://www.dafont.com
• The Met  fonts
• Cooper Hewitt
• Google Fonts
• https://goofonts.com/
  https://www.typewolf.com/google-fonts
• https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont
  

Type Management

• Fontbook
  • https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-manage-mac-fonts-with-font-book-2260816
  • https://support.apple.com/guide/font-book/welcome/mac

• Adobe Fonts (Adobe Type Kit)
  • https://instapage.com/blog/what-is-adobe-typekit
  • https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/add-fonts.html
  • Embeding fonts InDesign

Type Foundries

The following list is just a few of the major type foundries where you can purchase fonts, or in some cases download them for free.

• https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts
• https://www.fontsmith.com/blog/2016/06/29/the-a-z-of-typographic-terms
• www.agfamonotype.com
  

Typeface Anatomy

Measurements and Sizes

Kerning/Tracking

Leading

Typeface Classification

Color Resources

Grid Resources

Typography Reading

Typography Games

Typeface Identification

Typeface Pairing

Expressive Typography Publication Design

Typography Videos

Type 3 OER

Textures

Textures 2

Creative Process

PDF On Dropbox

Creative Projects Research Information

Textures

http://www.fusionplate.com/4084/amazing-free-polygon-background-packs/

https://pixabay.com/images/search/texture/

https://unsplash.com/backgrounds/art/texture

https://www.pexels.com/search/textures

Course Drives

Dropbox page on course site

Helvetica Movie at City Tech Library

https://cuny-ny.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CUNY_NY/1b4dhg8/alma9994392614606136

Social Feeds

• Pinterest

• Twitter

Tweets by JohnBDeSantis

Using Adobe Creative Cloud

Install on your computer

https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/using/install-apps-number-of-computers.html

synch your files

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/sync-creative-cloud-files.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/get-started.html

Adobe fonts

https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/using/activate-fonts-desktop.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/add-fonts.html

Illustrator Type Challenges

Alternatives via Twitter @XdanielArt
https://twitter.com/XdanielArt/status/1434611199140896772?s=20

Portfolio Development Information

Presenting Your Work