Marian Bantjes, typographer, designer, and Layer Tennis competitor, received a 419 spam email and turned it into this print.
posted on Jun 27, 2008 - View this thread

The 2007 Feltron Annual Report . via
posted on Jun 8, 2008 - View this thread

15 Great Examples of Web Typography. Because 95% of web design is about typography in the first place.
posted on May 8, 2008 - View this thread

Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 NYC subway map is back Yours for the low, low price of 299 bucks for one copy of the limited edition of 500. (Previous MeFi comments on the famed design, which the New York MTA eventually shitcanned. [Via.])
posted on Apr 24, 2008 - View this thread

"Commonwealth of Diverse Cultures: Poland's Heritage is an international educational exhibition which presents the history of tolerance and cohabitation of various ethnic groups in the territory of Polish-Lithuanian Commowealth and is addressed primarily to foreigners all around the world". This is achieved via a very beautiful flash site.
posted on Mar 25, 2008 - View this thread

Israeli designer Oded Ezer produces stunning works of experimental typography. He has been lauded for creating [PDF link]"...Hebrew characters that melt," but it is his more unconventional work that is truly breathtaking - made up of letters with vivacity and personality. He calls his gorgeously abstracted work "typo art," existing wholly neither in the space of art or typography, with hope that it might transcend language altogether. See his flickr stream for more sketches, works, and arresting typescapes.
posted on Jan 9, 2008 - View this thread

Blue Vertigo | Web Design Resource Links
posted on Nov 21, 2007 - View this thread

Zigzag Zombie.

As part of the recent Dutch Design Week, students were instructed to produce an original typeset using thin, flat material (metal strips, tape, toilet paper, etc.) and then "pick one location, and create a large scale zigzag lettering and make passersby hallucinate."
posted on Nov 12, 2007 - View this thread

A Website about Corporate Identity. A large archive of corporation logos with design credits, typeface identification (or, at least the typographic roots of the ID's.) and Pantone color information. Not at all complete, but it's a very nice start. Hopefully it will continue to expand. via: Grain Edit (design blog)
posted on Nov 7, 2007 - View this thread

It’s easy to talk about Adrian Frutiger in the past tense, since his most influential fonts – Univers, Egyptienne, and the eponymous Frutiger – are all at least thirty years old. But he is still alive, and in the summer of 2006, as he was presented with the Society for Typographic Aficionados’ annual Typography Award, type designer Mark Simonson gave a presentation on how Frutiger [pdf, 18 MB] affected, and continues to affect, him and all others who benefit from good typography.
posted on Oct 3, 2007 - View this thread

How the new type standard for American road signage reduces halation and improves readability.
posted on Aug 11, 2007 - View this thread

Type The Sky: font project by a student at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
posted on Aug 6, 2007 - View this thread

Fontfilter -- ever wondered what font a logo uses? Wonder no more. (site's in German but the chart is simple--there's also a reversed one, by font instead of by company)
posted on May 29, 2007 - View this thread

Lettermade This ongoing project, started in 1998, is aimed at documenting, appreciating, and recontextualizing vernacular letterforms and typography. (Design dorks rejoice!)
posted on May 7, 2007 - View this thread

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web. Robert Bringhurt's undisputed bible of typography until now has been limited to print design. This site, a work in progress, presents his principles one at a time, and explains how to follow them as a web designer using HTML and CSS.
posted on Mar 8, 2006 - View this thread

The Pixel Plant offers 150 Pixel Fonts for between Free and 45 cents each.
posted on Oct 22, 2005 - View this thread

Typetester, for web designers. via
posted on Sep 30, 2005 - View this thread

The Scourge of Arial. It has spread like a virus through the typographic landscape and illustrates the pervasiveness of Microsoft's influence in the world. Arial, however, has a rather dubious history and not much character. In fact, Arial is little more than a shameless impostor...
posted on Aug 9, 2005 - View this thread

Daily Type is a creative project run by five russian type designers. Day by day, they create original typefaces and post their results along with routine.
posted on Jun 1, 2005 - View this thread

Thinking with Type The online companion to the book of the same name offers a nice little online primer on the finer points of typography, including my favourite new online game: Dumb Quotes. Remember kids: only you can prevent poor kerning.
posted on Jan 31, 2005 - View this thread

A chapter from Edward Tufte's upcoming book is online. [link contains roughly 2.2 MB of scanned images] Tufte, discussed here previously and author of what could be called the Strunk and White for scientists, statisticians, producers and consumers of visual information, takes a stab at a few issues right up the average MeFite's alley: the 9/11 commission report, fraudulent medical studies, and the rather dubious quantitative work of this unfortunate economist/art historian. For the ShillFilter suspicious, check out some of the great threads that haunt his site.
posted on Jan 15, 2005 - View this thread

Found typography
posted on Nov 17, 2004 - View this thread

The title screens of hundreds of your favourite movies
posted on Jul 28, 2004 - View this thread

Found Typography
... and if you liked that, please also try Hundreds of Thousands, both from Itchy Robot
posted on Jan 22, 2004 - View this thread

Jakob Nielsen believes that Cleartype can save you $2000/year. Um, yeah, Jakob.
Go just for the experience of seeing the God of Ugly Design say, "We desperately need better-looking computers..."
[link via typographer.com]
posted on Feb 7, 2002 - View this thread