This video is from circa 2003 and is still worth a watch. It’s a great introduction to the art of type design for the non-initiated.

Recently Ikea changed it’s house font from a modified version of Futura to the ubiquitous Verdana. Cue the freakout. Designers and typophilles all over the internet have been decrying the change. Even Time Magazine has written about the font controversy.
All this outrage over a font? For some designers, it’s an issue of propriety — […]

College Humor asks the question, what if fonts were real people, and answers in a humorous fashion. The result is entertaining but they made the personalties of the fonts based on their names, not on their actual characteristics, which is still funny, but not quite as nerdy as it could have been.

The whole thing […]

A wonderful overview of typography. Watch and quickly learn the basics.