Beach day!

I went to the beach today and had to stop and take a picture of this. It was pretty awesome.

A typeface that uses 20% less toner...

Can it have an effect on the environment? Is it good looking? Does it matter?

typesetting book fail

particularly great are the comments, especially those starting here:
http://failblog.org/2008/12/27/proof-of-concept-fail/#comment-221094

Rob Roy Kelly Wood Type Collection

A great resource from the University of Texas at Austin.

(Blank) Love(s) Typography

We Love Typography - another (bookmark) site (from John at 'I Love Typography') with lots of links. 

Best Hand Lettering - at Lettercult

Lettercult's choices for best hand lettering for the first half of 2009. Above, Hungarian designer Aron Jancso's favorite letter.

History by Peter Bilak

History, a typeface design by Peter Bilak that, like Matthew Carter's Walker and Just van Rossum and Erik van Blokland's Beowulf, is characterized by its mutability—prone to change—unlike the tradition of stability in typeface design.