In their Sunday Vintage Type post, i love typography shares more good links than you can eat. It’s worth a click if only for that first gorgeous Karmann Ghia logotype.
Hands of Fate:
I dig Douglas Wilson’s Vernacular Typography Polaroids–Polaroids taken of mostly hand-painted signs over the past four years all across the United States. [Via]
Type seldom looks worse to me than when a faux-handwriting or brush font gives itself away via perfectly repeated characters. House Industries shows off how automatic character substitution through Open Type addresses the problem. [Via]
On the Web:
Typetester lets you compare multiple typefaces easily. (This is the sort of thing I’d love to see running in streamlined form as a Flash or AIR panel inside Creative Suite apps.)