United States state shapes as a font.

A font you can use in your web apps when you want tiny state shapes as a design element.

‘There are some particular findings that are pivotal to issues such as readership and readability and comprehension, which is really what body copy is all about. If people won’t read it, or if they can’t read it or understand it, then what’s the point of having it?’

“i made video called “unicode”. it shows all displayable characters in the unicode range 0 – 65536 (49571 characters). one character per frame.”

Comic Sans’ problems explained from a typographical standpoint.

"Create Your Own @font-face Kits."

"Matrix of fonts bundled with Mac and Windows operating systems, Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite."

Yeah, it's a crappy linkbait gimmicky list of fonts, but these are good ones (not all of them, and relatively speaking). I didn't Delicious this last month when I found it because I thought I was better than that but I've since needed to find the link again four times, so HERE IT IS. Bite me.

A stylish, simple, infographical, curt, and summarily realistic at the world in which we currently live.

This bookmarklet makes reading things on the web very simple and thus enjoyable by removing all of the often-useless and often-flashing worthlessness surrounding the content.

This could be good. "Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use. To achieve this ambitious goal the following requirements were set: No plug-ins required; it has work on every major browser on the market; no or near-zero configuration needed for standard use cases; it has to be fast, even for sufficiently large amounts of text. And now, after nearly a year of planning and research we believe that these requirements have been met."

A collection of pretty/interesting/abstract vector fonts for Illustrator.

Simply a collection of beautiful book covers.

Good rundown of some great and not-so-great logo redesigns in 2008.

A nicely designed list of the words of the year. Seems like half are from the election. Can't say I've ever heard of a "fish pedicure," but there it is.

Just like it says.

With handy charts.

Typography in motion project for once of Vince Vaughn's rant monologues from "Wedding Crashers." Particularly well done.

Finally, a tutorial for getting size and line height to render and scale exactly the same in all browsers for a given font size. Requires some basic math in the stylesheet.

"experiments with hand lettering...a ongoing series based on spam subject lines in my mailbox" Excellent.

Very nice, very creative business cards, but don't expect them to fit in your wallet or Rolodex. Check the comments for bonus footage from "American Psycho."

Ending shots of old movies. Nice style and typography.

On the difference between the vastly inferior Arial and the venerated Helvetica. Watch for that spur.

A masterful overview of the two fonts. How they look best and where they've been used.

A fascinating and in-depth look at the design (mostly typographical) of Toronto's subway system. A long read, but if you're into typography, a great one.

"Swedish graphic designer with a passion for typography and minimalism. Currently studying at Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Carlisle, UK. Graduating in July 2007 with a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design, ready to take on the world." Go go go!

Commence the drooling.

Embarrassing effects.

An excellent and highly educational series.

Must see. "Most of the subtitles in 'Night Watch' are in clear, white sans serif lettering, but others adopt different guises to reflect the mood and action of the film. Some glide across the screen from different angles."