The 11 Most Epic Trivial Things You’ve Never Thought Of Before
Ever. WARNING: This was a popular post you’ve probably seen before except this one is set to the soundtrack of a faux-Hans Zimmer.
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Your Font Choice Sends A Subliminal Message
What are you telling your coworkers?
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When You Pick The Wrong Typeface
It can be really unfortunate. Look how upset Darth Maul is.
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Everything You Wanted To Know About Fonts
In pretty, pretty infographics!
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7 Logos Ruined By Comic Sans
No known logo is strong enough to withstand it. Designer Oleg Tarasov tried a few out.
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7 Beautiful Vintage-fied Tech Logos
What a difference a font makes. Via Gizmodo.
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Here’s What A Font For Dyslexic People Looks Like
It sort of looks like the Simpsons title font.
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eBay’s New Logo Will Hurt Your Eyes
It’s sleek! It’s modern! And it’ll give any font nerd an instant migraine.
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Here’s What An Animated Font Looks Like
Everything is a title sequence! Now someone figure out a way to get this to work in Word.
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The Comic Sans Song
Oh hey, here’s a music video dedicated to the best (or worst?) font in the world. Because sure, why not?
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A Brilliant Way To Make People Pay For Your App
Just switch your free version to the worst font in the history of the Earth. Nbd.
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How Fonts Are Born
Here are some 80-year-old sketches for Gill Sans, one of the most recognizable fonts in the world. Baby typefaces are ADORABLE.
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This Was The First Computer Font
Stored as a bitmap, interpreted by a machine. Digi Grotesk was released in 1968, but I’d say it holds up pretty well.
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20 Cats As Fonts
Here are 20 fonts and the cats that clearly inspired them. This is a rare and important opportunity for cat fanciers and typophiles to find some common ground.
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This Font Is Impossible
Frustro: a typeface that could never exist in three-dimensional space.
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Apps Deserve Better Fonts
Super sharp screens need better fonts, and app developers are taking notice. “Working with apps is part of our business now,” says a type designer.
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Video Game Character Font
By Fabian Gonzales. Can you guess them all? (via The Uniblog) View Image ›
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Fonts Of The Dog World
Nine classic and elegant fonts with their canine counterparts. And then there’s Comic Sans. (Via) View Image ›
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The Wonderful World Of Illustrated Type
Typography doesn’t nee to be boring! It can be pretty badass actually. via The Uniblog View List ›
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Say It In Llama Font
In a world where Comic Sans is too ugly and Helvetica is too pretentious, there is a font that will save us all. And that font is shaped like a llama. Send your next birthday invite with this lovely typeface. View List ›
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Food Best Friends & Ampersands
What could be better than peanut butter & jelly? Peanut butter & jelly making out inside an ampersand! View List ›
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Hey, You’ve Got Some Font On Your Face on theatlantic.com ›
Face fonts.
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The Font Alphabet
An animated short by Alessandro Novelli depicting characters that illustrate the first letter of a type of font. Comic Sans is conspicuously absent. Watch Video ›
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The Very Best Font And Typography Humor
Please feel free to add your own, if you’re into that type of thing. Zing! (WARNING: Do not click if you don’t enjoy dumb jokes about fonts and stuff.) View List ›
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Death To Comic Sans
Seems like there are a million and one ways to kill comic sans. For some reason, it always seems to come back from the dead. View Image ›
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May the Force of Typography Be With You
Star Wars characters constructed with nothing but typography. The font is strong with this one! View List ›
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Helvetica! in! Space! on kottke.org ›
Let’s say you wanted to stretch one “helvetica” over the same distance…at what point size would you need to set it? The answer is 282.6 billion points.
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Haunted By Bad Fonts
A typographical horror story. (Via.) View Image ›
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Console Font
This is so Nintendo 64 Fire Button Nintendo 64. A Turtlefeed find. View Image ›
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I’m Comic Sans, Asshole on mcsweeneys.net ›
McSweeney’s offers us a delightful imagined rant by that most-hated of all fonts. “I’m not just a font. I am a force of motherfucking nature and I will not rest until every uptight armchair typographer cock-hat like you is surrounded by my lovable, comic-book inspired, sans-serif badassery.”
