This isn't just for the typographers . . .
Lately at work I've had some serious back and forth about what font to use on a particular website. Web typography can be challenging - especially since the use of special embedded/implemented fonts requires special licensing if you don't want to get yourself in big trouble.
Sites like fontsquirrel.com can be extremely helpful, but only if you know what you're looking for. If not, its easy to get swept away by a wave of fonts that all look almost the same to a great many people.
So with fonts on the brain, I stumbled across this: http://www.cracked.com/funny-5647-fonts/ , which brought back the days I spent sitting in my college Typography class, and which, despite the occasional swear word, manages to be both amusing and a reminder of why we should care about fonts.
Sites like fontsquirrel.com can be extremely helpful, but only if you know what you're looking for. If not, its easy to get swept away by a wave of fonts that all look almost the same to a great many people.
So with fonts on the brain, I stumbled across this: http://www.cracked.com/funny-5647-fonts/ , which brought back the days I spent sitting in my college Typography class, and which, despite the occasional swear word, manages to be both amusing and a reminder of why we should care about fonts.
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