Type Shirt of the Week: Fear of a Cooper Black Planet - 100% cotton awesomeness from subtraction.com (Thanks to Lisa Foote)

Top Ten Web Typography Sins - By the fine people at Smashing Magazine

Quality Free Font: Big Boned - An experimental, and quite puffy,  typface by networkosaka.com.

The hazy future of Web typography - Very interesting, must-read post by Chris Foresman on Ars Technica

Comic Sans Detention t-shirt by Bad Designer Threads.

Typetweets - “An up to the minute look at the typographic discussions happening across Twitter.” (via typesites)

Typography Book Club Selection:
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works - “World-renowned type experts Erik Spiekermann and E.M. Ginger explain in everyday laymen’s terms what type is and how you can use it to enhance the legibility, meaning, and aesthetic level of your work. They elegantly touch on all aspects of typography, including the history and mechanics of type, how to train your eye to recognize and choose typefaces, and how to use space and layout to improve overall communication.” (Thanks to Doug Pollei for the recommendation)

Lovely Lovely Ligatures -  Fantastic post covering everything you ever wanted to know about ligatures, the process of joining together two or more letters/characters. Great accompanying visuals too.  (via The Design O’Blog)

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Two of my favorite social neworks are now closer than ever before. Flickr2Twitter was announced today and I couldn’t be more excited.

While I’ve been a fan of Twitter photo sharing services like TwitPic, I’ve never liked the quality of most phone cameras. Being able to share these fuzzy, lower resultion images with the world wasn’t that appealing to me. Flickr2Twitter has this function too of course. However, it’s the ability to post photos directly from Flickr to Twitter with the virtual press of a button that I find most appealing.

Setup is quick and painless. Once complete, you simply click the “blog this” button above your photos. You even get the option to edit the content of the tweet. The link uses Flickr’s own URL shortener.

I think this is useful and smart addition to the Flickr experience. I’d love to hear about other people’s experience and opinions of this new feature.

TypeDrawing - This is the killer app for typophiles with ipods. It allows you to draw with letters. You can save or share the results. There’s even a TypeDrawing flickr group. (via upscale typography)

High-quality free font: Titilium

FontStruct - Create and share your own TrueType fonts for free.

Typography Quote: “As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.” - Matthew Carter

Here’s my presentation:

Alphabeasties - A new children’s book featuring illustrations of animals formed from letters. Designed by Sharon Werner and Sarah Forss from Saint Paul, Minnesota’s own Werner Design Werks, Inc. (via Howmagazine)

Portrait of Marilyn Monroe using Park Avenue font and the letter “M” only. (By Mir Kat on Flickr)

The Periodic Table of Typefaces (via Behance)

125 Creative Text Based Logo Designs (via designfeed.me)

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I Hate Comic Sans poster design by illustrator extraordinaire, Pablo Lobo.

Google Maps Typography - An entire alphabet of letter-form like map features compiled by Rhett Dashwood.

Flickermood 2.0 by Sebastian Lange. Aptly described as an “experimental typographic orgy.”

Tools: WhatTheFont - Have you ever seen a great font and wondered what typeface it was? Upload a sample image and their database or active user forum can probably help you identify it.

Inspiration: 20 Examples of Beautiful Typography Graphic Designs from Best Design Options

“Papyrus” xkcd comic from last week. (Thanks to slolee)

29 Excellent Typography Tutorials for Designers from The Design Magazine.

10 Shirts Every Type Nerd Must Own from The Design Cubicle

40+ Awesome Typography Wallpapers from tripwire magazine

Quality free font family: Fontin Sans by Exljbris (Jos Buivenga)

I shot the serif - This image has been making the rounds on Digg and Twitter today. I wish I knew who created it.

Kern in Space - The folks at Veer Ideas have created a game for the extreme typophile in us all. They put it best, “in space, no one can hear you kern.”

Typekit - This is huge news for web designers. Typekit, launching this summer, takes advantage of upcoming expanded browser support for CSS linking to font URLS. They’ve even developed web-only font linking licenses with major type foundries. The result will be nothing short of a revolution for web typography. The Typekit blog goes on to state: “No longer will you need to trap your content in images or Flash just to express yourself visually. Pages will be more usable, accessible, and indexable. This is a massive upgrade for the web.”

Comic Sans - A short documentary (8 minutes) about the font Comic Sans. Created for a video production course and inspired by the film “Helvetica” by Gary Hustwit. Very well done. This was a great resource when I was working on my Ignite Minneapolis presentation, when Good People Pick Bad Fonts.

I welcome your suggestions for links to include in future installments. Please leave them in the comments section.