A Treasury of Wood Type Online (via Hoefler & Frere-Jones)

Salt Lake City-based designer Geof Crowl posted this shot to Dribbble with the simple question, “What state do you live in?” Five days later, there are 300+ rebounds (Dribbble’s version of a follow-up response) from designers stateside and abroad… 

(via 9-bits)

Periodic Table of Typefaces

As with traditional periodic tables, this table presents the subject matter grouped categorically.  The Table of Typefaces groups by families and classes of typefaces:  sans-serif, serif, script, blackletter, glyphic, display, grotesque, realist, didone, garalde, geometric, humanist, slab-serif and mixed.  

Very nice illustrations of Ampersand Food Groups.

So many designers hate Comic Sans. They think people who don’t know design are overusing this funny little friendly font, which is nearly every time out of place. Some years ago, type designer Hannes von Döhren created a free alternative to Comic Sans. The difference: It has serifs and a much damn cooler look. The big success of the HVD Comic Serif pushed Von Döhren to create a Pro Version with an eastern, central and Western European language support.

“The HVD Comic Serif should spread all over and make the world a little bit better.” says Hannes.

Grab HVD Comic Serif Pro here