Comic Sans gets another chance - comicneue.com

Hey everybody I made a font: http://t.co/3UMaLVMUWI
— Craig Rozynski (@craigrozynski) April 7, 2014

Video: an animated history of typography - http://vimeo.com/65353988



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Retweet:

"I'm going to get a tattoo that says 'Helvetica' written in Arial. When a woman corrects me on it, I will marry her."
— Shelby White (@ShelbyWhite) February 10, 2013

Listicle: 12 Letters That Didn't Make the Alphabet - http://goo.gl/Wy910
Comments highlight: "Æ and œ were never letters on their own, they are just ligatures of common digraphs, sometimes still used."
(1500 words)

Typography: an iOS shortcut that gets you em dashes —

Gangsta. twitter.com/H_FJ/status/27…
— Hoefler&Frere-Jones (@H_FJ) November 21, 2012

Photo: a kind of typographic hell.

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A typeface for doctors - http://goo.gl/ElHXS

(Orion Champadiyil; via BoingBoing)

The six types of film poster.

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Typography: for each letter, a 3D sculpture made in a font beginning with that letter, in a style associated with that typeface - http://goo.gl/aeYXC



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Upside down frown

(via @Microlambert)

What fonts work best on-screen? An in-depth comparison of Droid Sans, Helvetica Neue (iOS) and Segoe UI (Windows 7). Summary: it's Droid Sans (Ian Hex, 2400 words).
The successor to Droid Sans on Ice Cream Sandwich is Roboto. Roboto's designer Christian Robertson gets right of reply to Stephen Coles' critique (4000 words).

Typography: on the creation of an average font - Avería.

On historical typography:

"When we introduced the Ngram Viewer, we pointed out some potential pitfalls with the data. For instance, the 'medial s' ( ſ ), an older form of the letter s that looked like an integral sign and appeared in the beginning or middle of words, tends to be classified as an instance of the letter 'f' by the OCR algorithm used to create our version of the data. Andrew West, blogging at Babelstone, found a clever way to exploit this error: using queries like 'husband' and 'hufband' to study the history of medial s typography, he pinned down the precise moment when the medial s disappeared from English (around 1800), French (1780), and Spanish (1760)." 

- Google Research Blog

Limited edition poster, "A Typographic Anatomy Lesson" from Ligature, Loop & Stem.

On the uses of Comic Sans.