Thinking For A Living is a great online design resource for new and old designers. It is a a collection of recommended readings and online links put together by Duane King, Creative Director of BBDK.
Category: Typography
Neutura
Distype
This small Belgian type foundry has some really nice pixel based typefaces. Very impressive actually.
Wim Crouwel conference
If you happen to be in Paris on April 25th, Wim Crouwel will speaking at a conference at Centre Pompidou.
Typeface Identification
Need to ID a typeface? Maybe this Flickr group can help.
Golden Section for typefaces
Interesting method used by Nick over at Typophile to find the relationship between regular and bold.
I decided to do some research to help, looking at a fairly arbitrary group of 12 font families* (mostly Microsoft) and worked out the ratio between lower case thin and thick downstrokes in each case and then took an average of the 12.
It turns out that the ratios (regular:bold) varied between 0.52 (not enough difference to be effective) and 0.67 (too much difference), but the average was 0.6216.
This turned out to be almost identical to ? (golden section)