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friday's xkcd:

Gerard Unger:Type Designer

Dutch graphic designer/type designer has a nice site with all of his typeface designs.

Minimum font-size for credit card fine-print

The new US credit-card bill specifies a minimum type-size and a list of approved fonts for the terms and conditions, to replace the mind-clouding teeny-weeny eye-strain-o-rama font that normally fills a Bible-sized tome that accompanies your standard credit card.

Section 122 of the Truth in Lending Act (U.S.C. 1632) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:

"(d) Minimum type-size and font requirement for credit card applications and disclosures. -All written information, provisions, and terms in or on any application, solicitation, contract, or agreement for any credit card account under an open end consumer credit plan, and all written information included in or on any disclosure required under this chapter with respect to any such account, shall appear-

"(1) in not less than 12-point type; and

"(2) in any font other than a font which the Board has designated, in regulations under this section, as a font that inhibits readability.".

ripped from boing boing.

IS050—the blog of Scott Hansen

An interesting retro design, music, fashion site.

Welcome to the Ministry of Type

From UK, of course.

Weburanist featuring some typgoraphy

most of it is meh, but one or two good things: here

Get Yourself (or a Friend) a Design Snob Gift

Don't stop at being a type snob - there's more obsessive snobbery here.

Jackie Casey Poster Collection

Jackie Casey was the Director of MIT's Design Office in the 1970s/80s and designed some beautiful modernist posters - this archive is hard to get around but worth the work to see her design.

You're probably not reading this in favor of studying or binding your pamphlets/books, but...

I stumbled upon this post of some sign typography.

The photography is very pretty as well. It has that sort of retro-sixties-film feel.