The secret of creativity

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Origins of popular typefaces

Download the overview as a PDF here (and ignore the terribly written article, wrong typeface names, Times New Roman classified as a Sans Serif, come on) 

Prestiggio and Mingray from Rekord

Mingray is a stylish monospaced font in three weights

Prestiggio is an elegant display font with many alternate characters and ligatures

KernType, kerning game

Pretty cool game, needs more words and fonts though :)

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