September 2, 2011
Reference
The biggest, baddest, best typographic resource
Luc Devroye is a Belgian born professor of computer science and mathematics and a self-confessed type nut. I've been a fan of his site for many years.
As he describes it, he joined the McGill University in Montreal "...in 1977 as a young snotnose, and found academic freedom and cybercover from conservative forces in 2006 at the Computational Geometry Lab of Carleton University, Ottawa." I assume that explains the title of his page, "On Snot and Fonts."
He strikes me as the type of person who prefers others don't attempt to interpret his motives or speculate about what he thinks, so I'll leave it at this: Devroye's pages constitute the wild west of the type world — "wild west" because he is neither a respecter of rules or status. The resulting collection of type-related articles, resource descriptions, and its vast collection of links is like no other.
If you're a typophile you already know Luc Deveroye's extraordinary resource — if you're not, you may end up as one.
Luc Devroye wild west of typography...
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