Lolwut

I read a lot on the internet, and so it happens, I stumble upon a lot of misguided opinions and poorly researched statements. Usually I'd just browse past the bullshit, but this one from Business Insider on why Helvetica is the only typeface in the future tops them all. Kudos to the author for being able to pack so much nonsense in such a short article. Read and cry, typophiles.

Monokrom: a new type foundry

Welcome a new foundry from Norway: Monokrom opens with 5 excellent typefaces. Aften Screen is a friendly Grotesque, suitable for long reading on screen, as the name suggests. Read more on the process here. Great stuff.

Drop Cap covers for Pinguin Classics

Jessica Hische never seizes to amaze me, every time I see her new work mentioned anywhere leads me to her site, where the unmistakable but versatile style leaves me glued to the display for at least an hour. These wonderful covers are no exception of course, and there goes my productivity for today. Damn you, Jessica, I've got work to do!
 

James Bond Book Covers

Nice typographic covers for the James Bond series from Randomhouse. Head over to CreativeBloq for a nice write-up on every cover, interesting stuff!

Some are better than others (Diamonds Are Forever is my favourite I guess, Dr. No being the weakest of the bunch), but as a whole it's pretty cool. 

typeconnection

A pretty cool typographic match game, made with much attention to detail: typeconnection

Futura: animated specimen

FUTURA LE SPECIMEN ANIMÉ from Thibault de Fournas on Vimeo.

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) 

KernType, kerning game

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

Fontdropper

Some of you may know WebInk, the web fonts service from Extensis, the guys behind Suitcase Font Manager. They offer a pretty cool widget called FontDropper 1000, used for live preview of the fonts on any web page, really any web page, no matter if you have administrative access to it or not.

Using it is very simple, all you do is just drag the bookmarklet to the bookmarks bar, and then drag the fonts out of the preview panel on the text: look how I redesigned the sidebar. Of course the fonts selection is somehow limited to the WebInk library, but the most useful feature (for typophiles) is that the tool also tells you what webfont is being used at the moment (the little rectangle with Benton RE is the font used at ATypI site). It definitely recognizes fonts that are not in the library as well (tested on a site with custom font). Very handy, not having to look into the CSS and all.

Photolettering catalog

Beautifully done, very fun. The photos don't do it justice, the thin paper is amazing!

Calligraphy on Glass

Calligraphy on Glass from Jonathan Hamilton on Vimeo.

How ligatures are made

by David Schwen who happens to make much more cool stuff

Sexy alphabet

click to enlarge

by the wonderful Malika Favre

Nice cards

All these and more at 55his.com

Times New Rope & Swing City

by Sveinn Davíðsson

Explorations in Typography

Not sure if this is terribly old, but here is a book by Erik Spiekermann and Carolina de Bartolo. Basically it's not the book itself that interests me (the layouts don't seem very practical and reading the same (?) article over and over, I don't know. I think they could've come up with more content. This is based on the first impression though, I will have to wait till the book arrives) The site is remarkably well done, it's almost like a layout app in your browser, or at least a great specimen tool for a type foundry. Here it is: Explorations in Typography