This is a great, tongue-in-cheek Christmas message from Pentagram. The ‘type analyst’ asks you four probing questions to decide which typeface most suits your personality. Once you have your result you can compare how many others had the same font.
There’s some lovely subtle elements in here too, especially the configuration of the artist’s hand-model on[...]
What Type Are You?
#4 — Fonts for learning.
Sometimes a study comes along that just runs counter to your intuition and in doing so has an impact on your design. Last month Connor Diamond-Yauman and his colleagues published just such a paper in Cognition (2010).
Just My Type.
by Simon Garfield.
It’s hard to know quite who this book is aimed at, the type geeks (mostly made up of graphic designers) or the interested layman? Well, it seems to aim right in the middle of the two, but in doing so often disappoints the former and confuses the latter.