While well-known font designers, such as Hermann Zapf, have collaborated with Knuth to create new fonts using Metafont, the system has not been widely adopted by professional type designers. Knuth attributes this to the fact that "asking an artist to become enough of a mathematician to understand how to write a font with 60 parameters is too much".[5]

A 1860 $5 gold piece, with inscription "Holiness to the Lord" in the Deseret alphabet

16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

unicode proposals with tables of nu characters!

"And these countries were fobbed off with a postmodernist hoagie."

a series of seven islands that have been fortified with missile launchers. You must pilot your craft into and around forests and swamps, blast your way through walls, all while deftly avoiding an endless barrage of guided missiles.

or a mac

font protection

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which is celebrating its 50th birthday this year) as part of a larger conversation about the way type

this is cute!

Wish I had a higher res version (thx britta)