What font is your beard? Artist Christian Goldemann made this handy chart to match your facial hair style with the font that it most naturally represents. How did he come up with these?A plain moustache like the one John...

You could just say out loud "Happy birthday!" or "You're fired!", but creative people find different ways of communicating. Victoria Hudgins shows you how, step by step, to bake your special message to a special someone...

Matt Innes's stylish bookcase celebrates the written word in a direct statement of what you store inside it. And since the pieces aren't joined together, you can rearrange them as KOBOS or SKOOB in order to confuse visit...

You might think that typography is a simple field, but Robert Bringhurst, the aut...

With icons and typefaces, Gokhun Guneyhan created graphic designs to match nations, cities and neighborhoods in Europe. Do you think they fit?Link -via Fubiz...

Kerntype is a kerning game.Your mission is simple: achieve pleasant and readable text by distributing the space between letters. Typographers call this activity kerning.And of course, when it's done wrong it's called kem...

[http://youtu.be/vHxH9tum9qk] (YouTube link)This typographical 'toon is the first of a series of four animations by the Lycette Brothers. There are three sequels, in which our little office worker continues trying to woo...

Steven Bamford made this marvy text generator that lets you recreate words using images of real galaxies. The Geekologie Writer thoughtfully and accurately predicts that a real-life version of this is the future of skywr...

Pop, pop, pop! It must have been so hard to resist the temptation to pop these letters while making them. The Spanish design firm Lo Siento injected colored water into bubble wrap blisters to make the cover photo for a J...

The symbol, @, that most younger people know only from email addresses and Twitter, has a long history. Its medieval origin is a little fuzzy, but there are several possible explanations of its birth. When I was young, i...