Typometer (typographic ruler)

Print this file (40K) on a transparent film (Letter or A4; make sure not to use the Shrink/Expand printing options). You can then place it over printed copy, and eliminate guesswork when determining font sizes, line spacing and rule weights.

 Type Links

• Fonts.com's Find Font by Sight
• Microsoft typography
• U&lc Online archive:
  • FY(T)I (by Ilene Strizver): Hyphens, En-dashes & Em-dashes | Fractions | Dingbats | Type & Color | Visual Alignment | Smart Quotes | Register, Trademark & Copyright | Rags, Widows & Orphans | Spacing and Kerning 1 2  | Anatomy of a character | Italics & Boldface | Justified Type | Oldstyle Figures | Small Caps
  • Dig We Must (by Olav Martin Kvern): Setting Code | You Can't Touch This | The Soapbox, Please | Emboldened. Italicized. Wrong
• On the Typesetting of Computer Programs by Esmond Pitt
• Typofile magazine
• Ideography
• Font Pages (compiled and edited by Luc Devroye)