Useful links
About the encoding standards and font technology
Unicode – there is everything.
Wikipedia: OpenType – a very good Wikipedia article about OpenType.
Pango – an attempt to bring good typography to Linux.
Font tools
FontLab Studio – the wisdom in Uvallanne is build with this.
Fontographer – all glyphs in Uvallanne are drawn here. In use since 1986!
FontForge – an OpenSource alternative to two former font tools.
Microsoft VOLT – Microsoft's tools for creating OpenType features.
Apple Font Tools – for making Mac-only AAT fonts.
Applications
Mellel – unforgetable for humanists. For many scholars a reason to switch to Mac.
Adobe InDesign – the leading page layout application, the first application, that supported OpenType typographical features.
Classical Text Editor – the third application, that supports fully advanced typographical OpenType features.