Posters & Video: fontface
I love these striking posters by atipo. The behind the scenes footage is pretty cool as well.

Photo: HAM
Great catch by Mark Luethi

LOL: If Fonts Were Dogs, Comic Sans Would Be a Whateverthef*uckthisis
Funny ‘cuz it’s true. I posted the original version a while back (TypTh 3.25.10) but it seems to be making the rounds again, this time with a creepy dog and sucker punch to the font we love to hate. (Thanks to Kevin Hendricks)

Further Reading: Type study – Stereo-typography
Dan Mall of Big Spaceship shares some tips on choosing a typeface.
“Enter stereo-typography, the art of using stereotypes to inform your type choices. Designing with stereotypes makes those initial choices a bit easier. Big = loud. Small = quiet. Smooth = elegant. Irregular = experimental. Look for typefaces whose letterforms embody a characteristic you’d like to subconsciously communicate.”

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iPad App: Typography Insight
“Typography Insight, developed by Parsons design student Dong Yoon Park, is sort of like an iPad typeface encyclopedia. Only encyclopedias are boring, and Typography Insight is beautiful and fun. With a wonderful and decently responsive interface, you can beef up on type terminology (do you know what an ascender is? A baseline?) compare fonts with a nifty overlay mode, or just get all up in their perfect formed faces to appreciate and learn nuances.” I’m really excited about this, available soon in the App Store. (via Gizmodo)

Free Font: That Said
Fun, new and free font from Astro Studios.

Print: PLINC Caslon Alphabet Print
This print from House Industries is not available for sale any longer but still breathtaking to admire.  Featuring Benguiat Caslon from Photo-Lettering. Original alphabet by Ed Benguiat, digitized by Christian Schwartz.

Further Reading: More Meaningful Typography
Get ready for some math in this fascinating piece by Tim Brown on A List Apart about modular scale.

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Jewelry: TypeRings
TypeRings lets you create striking engraved designs on the outside and inside of a ring. You can choose typefaces from the Underware font foundry or upload your own custom design. Their slick 3D ring designer lets you preview the result before you buy. (via Design Milk)

Web Tool: FitText
FitText is a jQuery plugin for inflating web type. It makes your font sizes flexible for fluid or responsive layouts and scalable headlines that fill the width of a parent element. Translation: gorgeous, gigantic display text no matter how it’s viewed. Very cool. (via The Typekit Blog)

Further Reading: 7 Types of Extra Bold Fonts (With Examples)
“While extra bold fonts aren’t appropriate for all designs, they are sometimes exactly what your projects crave.” Sonia Mansfield breaks it down for us in this post with loads of samples of each type.

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Photo: Ligature Clip
I love this clever piece by David Schwen. Check out the whole series of experiments. (via abduzeedo.com)

Type Tweet O’ The Week: Ferris Wheel
Congratulations to Merlin Mann for inspiring me to bring this segment back. In addition to menus, Cooper Black is particularly bad for TV show titles too.

Furniture: Fontable
These typetastic tables are designed by Alessandro Canepa and Andrea Paulicelli. You can order a single letter or a whole word. (via Design Milk)

Further Reading: The Onion Layer Model of Legibility
The beginning of a fascinating series by Ralf Herrmann “exploring the meaning and myths of legibility and readability. In this first article starts with the definition of terms and the presentation of model to incorporate these terms in a consistent system, that reflects common problems when setting type.”

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Magazine: Codex
Codex is a new quarterly print magazine for people seriously in love with type. It’s packed with feature articles, book and type reviews, interviews, tips, type history, new and notable faces, essays, type design, from top typography experts. Issue 1 (144 full-color pages, limited-run, limited-ads) is available for pre-order now.(via @typebot)

Interior Design: H Room Divider
Check out these folding plywood screens that a flip an uppercase H from West Banjo Playbill 90 degrees with striking results.

Blog: Typekit Love
Typekit runs a regular series on their blog titled ‘Sites we like’ and provides a small gallery of examples. But that wasn’t enough for Ben Goodyear, creator and curator of Typekit Love. The result of that frustration is this  real world examples of web sites which are helping push the boundaries of typography on the web.

Further Reading: Seven Typography Shortcuts for Photoshop
Some handy tips from Steve Schoeffel.

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Invaluable Tool: FFFFALLBACK
Fallback fonts are the foundation of a good CSS font stack. The trouble is they are tricky to preview and tweak without disabling your primary web fonts. At least that was the case until FFFFALLBACK came along. You have Josh Brewer and Mark Christian to thank. Powered by “magical unicorns and javascript rainbows,” this handy bookmarklet allows you to quickly overlay a fallback font over your web font, so you can accurately adjust the fallback scenario.

Interview: Chank Diesel
It seems that Twin Cities fontrepreneur, Chank Diesel (the chap above, looking dramatically into the distance), is everywhere lately. Tracking his mentions is almost becoming a regular feature here at Typ0Th. His latest appearance is in this fascinating interview, the feature of this month’s MyFonts Creative Characters newsletter. It’s a really in-depth piece complete with font samples and photos of his work “in the wild.”

Yum: Edible Poster
Delicious experimental type by Anna Garforth.

Further Reading: The State of Webfont Quality from a Type Designer’s View
Solid commentary by Ross Mills on Typographica

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Video: MN Original – Chank Diesel
MN Original is tpt’s weekly celebration of Minnesota artists, working in all disciplines, across all cultures. This segment aired as part of show #228 and features none other than font designer extraordinaire, Chank Diesel. He dons a tie and takes us “behind the letters” as he designs a new font based on the old Hollywood Theater sign in Northeast Minneapolis.

Cartoon: Straight A
Hilarity with Helvetica by Meghan Seawell (from the shiny new MN comedy ‘zine, Guffaw)

Give Peace A Chance: Typeface Based on Gandhi’s Iconic Spectacles
This font by Leo Burnett India is part of a series of typefaces created last year to commemorate Mahatma Gandhi’s 141st birthday. “We perceive the fonts to be a medium of expression that a man can use, not only to follow the Mahatma’s vision but also to start a revolution of his own, where the fonts will give the power to one’s words. With these, we hope to inspire the youth of today to look at the world through his eyes.” (via FastCo.Design)

Further Reading: The Culture of Typography on the Web
This piece by Brandon Jones is part education and part editorial and full of good insights. “It’s intended to be an off-the-cuff post about some of the principles that web designers need to take seriously.” Lots of food for thought here.

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Presentation: “Cure for the Common Font” — A Web Designer’s Introduction to Typeface Selection
Here’s one more reason I wish I was at SXSW this year. This panel made up of Stephen Coles, Frank Chimero, Tiffany Wardle, and Jason Santa Maria lays a solid foundation of some basic principles for making wise type choices. Check out the slides and complete audio of this great session.

For Sale: Love
These 8″ tall letters are worth falling for. Hand-crafted and from solid cherry wood and lovingly distressed by Emily Robins (RobinsandPearls on Etsy). They can be yours for only $80. She even takes requests if you… desire other letters.

Free Font: Condensed Milk
This slender, hand-drawn, geometric poster font was created by Chank Co intern David Crow from the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul. Download to today.

Further Reading: Fontspotting Tips – Windsor
Andy Sturdevant shares some great tips to help identify the Windsor typeface in the wild. “It’s often mistaken for its good-for-nothing, hard-partying half-brother, Cooper Black. There’s a few letters you can look to, though, in order to make a positive identification. The key to Windsor — and the thing that makes it such a gorgeous typeface — are the diagonals.” Check out even more from Andy on Windsor. The man is on a mission. (Thanks to @punsultant)

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Video: Typogami
Typogami is an animated typeface created in Adobe After Effects by Jeroen Krielaars. The characters are inspired by origami and kirigami, Japanese artforms of folding paper. It’s also for sale with the proceeds benefiting relief efforts in Japan.

Photo: Buchstabenmuseum, Berlin
By josephowen on Flickr from Berlin’s “Letter Museum”. And yes, I used Google Translate to figure that out.

Decor: Typography Wall Graphic
Decals from the fine folks at Veer. Includes 11 characters and 47 flourishes using Estilo Script and Expletive Script. They’re a blik Re-Stick product, so you can use them over and over again.

Further Reading: Gaelic type
In honor of the holiday, the Wikipedia page on Irish language typefaces. “The term Gaelic type, a translation of the Irish phrase cló Gaelach, refers to a family of insular typefaces devised for writing Irish and used between the 16th and 20th centuries.”

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Article: Through Thick and Thin
Fascinating piece by designer David Jonathan Ross over at I Love Typography. He deconstructs how some of his fonts carry their weight and gives some historical perspective of how letterform weights evolved in the first place.

Video: Amongst Type
I love seeing so much European typography lately. This mini-film was directed and shot in and around central Dublin. “In Baile Átha Cliath, we live amongst typography. It influences and informs our every day lives in Dublin, Ireland.”

Shirt: My other t-shirt is in Comic Sans
Another great design from Rizzo Tees. Also a handy way to find out which side of the font-snob fence your friends are on.

Photos: Typespotting LA
Wonderful set of found type photos from For The Love of Type.

Further Reading: TypeTalk – Script Typeface Dos & Don’ts
Great tips from Ilene Strizver in this CreativePro post.

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