Resources

I’m just adding stuff as I come across it. E-mail me if you want to suggest a link: india period amos whorl gmail period com.

Clip Art

• Briar Press Cuts & Caps
• The Fantastic in Art and Fiction
• Mayang’s Free Textures
• Stockvault
• Texture King

Glossaries of Publishing and Printing Terminology

• Thomas Christensen’s Glossary of Book Publishing Terms
• Ink and Ideas
• Printgraphics (AU)
• Quddos (UK; PDF, 284 KB)
• A Vocabulary for Description of Historical Bookbinding Structure, by Gary Frost

Publishing in General

• How to Get a Book Published, by Thomas Christensen
• Saskatchewan Publishers Group Publishing Information

Style Guides

• A List Apart
• California State University–Chico University Publication Guide
• Cambridge University Press Book Production Guide
• Chicago Manual of Style
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. (1918 edition)
• The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
• Guardian style guide (this is a newspaper, and British, so therefore not actually very useful, but nevertheless very amusing, to the right sort of person)
• Hoover Institution
• The Morning News
• Oxford University Press
• U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual
• University of Virginia Press Guide to MS Preparation

Font-finding Utilities

• Identifont — Identify a font by answering a series of simple questions about its appearance
• What the Font?! — Upload a scanned image of the font and find the closest matches in MyFonts.com’s database
• Bowfin Printworks Serif Font Identification Guide — Somewhat like Identifont, but only for serif fonts

Design Business

• HOW survey of Designers’ Hourly Rates (February 2008)
• The NO!SPEC campaign — A vehicle to unite those who support the notion that spec work devalues the potential of design and ultimately does a disservice to the client