Distorted for Readability

Distored signs in a multi-story car park that you can only read when in the exact right spot.

Type The Sky

An alphabet made out of photographs.

Helvetica at 50

The BBC celebrates Helvetica’s 50th anniversary.

What Does Marsellus Wallace look like?

The Marsellus Wallace scene from Pulp fiction brilliantly re-interpreted as typographical motion graphics. (Via Daring Fireball).

Firefox’s text rendering bug

I know this has been beaten to death already, but I noticed this on DWBlog and the difference was absolutely striking. Firefox’s italic text rendering is appalling, especially compared to Safari on OS X:

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Get this sorted Mozilla.

The best free fonts

Vitaly Friedman compiled a list of the best 25 free fonts available, and then he found 19 more a year later. Well worth a look.