This is probably old hat for type nerds, but this chart clearly lays out some of the crucial distinctions between Arial and Helvetica. The Q distinctions are especially critical!

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Link: http://cheeseorfont.mogrify.org/play

The ultimate test of sophistication and skill for the cheese/font enthusiast.

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I went to this store. It was a huge disappointment.

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Helvetica or Comic Sans? Your font type can be very revealing — take this simple quiz to find out which font you are.

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A designer's dream college-room-poster! This is not just pretty to look at but also grouped by families and classes of typefaces: san-serif, serif, script, blackletter, glyphic, display, grotesque, realist, didone, garalde, geometric, humanist, slab-serif and mixed.

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The Best Links:

1. Periodic Table of Typefaces on the Behance Network
2. What The Font: the Font Identifying iPhone App
3. Periodic Table of Video Game Characters
4. The Periodic Table of Awesome [PIC]

TECH BUZZ: This one goes out to those who live in the overlap of Venn diagrams labeled “good oral hygiene” and “typography lovers.” Keeps your teeth clean and your message clear.

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The Best Links:

1. Scroll Down for Animated Image of the Type Interacting With Gravity
2. Toothpaste Type: Heldentica.ttf (You Can Download It Here)

Link: http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/iP...

The popular application that can identify fonts is now for the iPhone — now with just the snap of a camera, you can find out the fonts behind your favorite streetside typography.

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The Best Links:

1. WhatTheFont for iPhone
2. WhatTheFont for the iPhone! YAY!!

CULTURE BUZZ: A tumblr devoted to documenting the strange, beautiful world of urban signage. Nice browsing for those with a taste for the semi-industrial informality of city typography, or just a love of ad-hoc signs.

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The Best Links:

1. The Journal of Urban Typography

Link: http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/

A site to easily make your own fonts. It's got a kinda limited pallet, but it's free. No complaints here.

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TECH BUZZ: A nifty little web application that generates a word cloud from any text document. If you are a tag nerd, enjoy fonts and folksonomy , you probably don’t have a girlfriend, and will have plenty of time to play around with this.

The Best Links:

1. Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
2. Comparing Recent Speeches by Obama and McCain
3. Wordle Blog
4. Oh Wordle…

POLITICS BUZZ: Who would you vote for, if you only had fonts to go on? Looking closely at the official campaign fonts of the three remaining candidates reveals a lot about their message (and it’s of interest to more than just design geeks, I swear).

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The Best Links:

1. “Character” Issue, Har Har (ABC News Video)
2. A Connection Between Candidates and the Fonts They Choose?
3. Fonts Used by Presidential Candidates 2008
4. Gotham
5. The Very Old Man Who Designed McCain’s Typeface, Optima
6. Baskerville, the Clinton Typeface
7. The Source of Gotham

CULTURE BUZZ: A group of 26 bearded men are suddenly everyone’s favorite font. Finally a font that reflects the needs and desires of bearded men.

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The Best Links:

1. TimYarzhombeck Made the Beard Alphabet, Suckas
2. Core 77 Hearts Beard Font
3. “Best font ever!”
4. “My new favorite font”
5. Not So Much a Font as a Collection of Images