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Type design

Type design is the art of designing typefaces (which may then be manufactured as fonts).

Someone who designs type is called a type designer (not a font designer, nor a fontologist, nor an alphabetician).

External links

Typophile (http://www.typophile.com/)
Typographica (http://www.typographi.ca/)

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