This is that "futuristic" font popular in the 1970s and 1980s.

As with many free fonts, these tend toward the cheesy, but many of these are appropriate for designing rave flyers.

This looks it could be a really useful font for a variety of design projects.

I'm counting the days until the nineties come back. I never quit wearing flannel shirts, so I am ready!

This article about presidential campaign logos is a good discussion of typography for the layman.

These fonts look like the ones Peter Saville used in designing the covers for famous Factory records releases.

This handy list of typography tips is largely geared toward print design, since none of your Web readers are going to have Frutiger installed.

Via Jon Lebowsky

This online reference takes rules from a typography manual and describes how to implement them in CSS.

Typographic mashup using Google maps. The there's only one glyph per letter, which I sort of think is cheating.

A brief glossary from Adobe detailing typographic jargon.

Mark Simonson reveals the interesting behind-the-scenes story behind Arial. We can't really blame Microsoft for this one, but perhaps we can cast a judgmental eye toward Adobe.

A project to encourage type foundries to produce a few "free as in freedom" fonts. There are some nice fonts for download on this page, but I wish they had more sans-serif faces.

This Flash animation takes a humorous look at the underused Cooper Black typeface.

This is an upcoming documentary about what is probably the world's most overused typeface. Please ignore the face you're currently reading...

This vlog post situates ugly MySpace profiles within the history of print design and adds a little Web 2.0 sassy sauce.

Via Kottke, this story suggests that Georgia is back in a big way. I'd suggest its popularity is due to the fact that it and Times New Roman are the two serif fonts you can expect users to have. And Times is kind of ugly.

I'm sick of Andale Mono and even sicker of Monaco, so I went on a quest for a cool fixed-width font. This is what I came up with.

Here is some flagrant typographic geekery, courtesty of bOINGbOING.

HTML entities for a mindblowing array of iconic symbols. I like the the radiation symbol.