Pages tagged typedesign:

The first one’s the hardest | i love typography, the typography and fonts blog
http://ilovetypography.com/2009/03/23/the-first-ones-the-hardest/

i find it so amazing that people can design fonts. my brain just doesn't work to that level of precision.
I remember clearly the day I was waiting for the 6 train at 33rd Street and Park Avenue in New York. I had taken pictures of type on the street for some time, but there was something here that caught my eye. There was a plastic sign on a door with letters and numbers routed out of plastic, and I noticed a couple of characters in particular: the way the 8 curved back into itself, the charming tail of the a. And then I realized that the lowercase e’s were all different. This had been done by hand and therefore wasn’t an existing typeface. I knew then that I could actually make this into a font.
Here's a captivating, personal article on I Love Typography about the design process of Jeremy Mickel's first commercially available typeface.
great typography article, about making your first font.
Look at the bottom for a list of USEFUl links. Too lazy to bookmark them all so just bookmarking this one post ...yeah, I know