Design with flair — on the Web!

A startup called Typekit allows freedom to design with any font you want online &mdash as long as you own the font itself. How groovy is that? Finally, we are free! No more Verdana, Arial... headaches, heartbreak.

via Slate.com

Indiana Jones for Font Fanatics

I saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull last week. I liked it well enough, as I've liked all the Indiana Jones movies (except maybe for the one with Kate Capshaw). But, I did have some trouble making the shift from the first three movies being set in the late ’30s to Crystal Skull being in the late ’50s. Could my inability to accept Indy fighting Cold War-era Russians instead of Pre-WWII Nazis have anything to do with… fonts?

Probably not. But, Mark Simonson’s “Indiana Jones and the Fonts on the Maps” explores where the Indiana Jones series has broken with historical accuracy of… fonts.

If anything, the article proves that I’m not nearly the font freak that I thought I was. Whew.

via Daring Fireball

Everyone’s a typographer

Or, at least everyone knows what fonts are.

Since everyone and their brother (or sister) has a computer with Microsoft Word and Print Shop Pro Publisher Deluxe, we’ve all become skilled typographers, right?

Uh, no.

In an effort to educate the general Microsoft Office-using public, The Sacramento Bee offers What’s your type? (<-- This link is to the Printer version of the article, which apparently doesn’t force you to register in order to read the entire piece. You’ll have to click [Cancel] when the print dialog box comes up though.) In any case, give the article a read and get a glimpse of how the general populace views and uses fonts.