The lost art of traditional sign painting turns out to be not so lost.

Learn the fundamentals of typography with Typekit’s free online lesson series.

A short documentary about the artists behind Dublin’s hand-painted signs.

A happy ride past Highbury’s Art Deco East Stand this week got me to thinking about graphic design’s place in football. I’ve learnt that a squashed Optima appears on all Premier League shirts and that, sadly, the book Football Type is sold out.

An almost poetically beautiful video of two workmen / craftsmen applying bus stop signage. Legible, useful, practical and utterly non-decorative. Proper typography.

Jürg Lehni analyses the evolution of typographic technology and the nature of digital fonts.

If you have an interest in letterforms or typeface design, Frank E. Blokland’s PhD research is an amazing resource. I especially recommend the section ‘Notes on patterns and grids’.

Score one for Comic Sans.