Can't Miss this: Typodermicfonts

Ah, Twitter has done it again. Amidst the hundreds of thousands of posts about everything from today's news to new regulations for the EPA about coal power, one of my followers has pointed me in the direction of another font-focused website/blog. I was first intrigued by the post because it was tweeted by a non-designer. An engineer, to be more exact. He posted that he got "lost" in Typodermicfonts, so I figured if an engineer was that fascinated by the fonts and this website (I think he chose the wrong career, except his chances of getting are probably a lot better than others) this was something that you all might be interested in as well.

I wandered over there to check it out first. Basically, it's a website/blog that lists different typefaces and includes descriptions of downloadable typefaces/fonts. It also features an image of each of the typefaces used in sentences and in different colors. While some of the descriptions seem repetitive or unnecessary because you can look at the font in the example, such as Pyrite being described as "angular, heavy metal display font," which would be easy to infer, but it also talks about how this font has been recently updated to include fractions and numeric ordinals as well as that "ligatures have been included for LL and OO pairs." The descriptions also include more fun information, such as that Crystal Radio Kit was the typeface used for the old Radio Shack logo.

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Oh, I just love to learn things like this!

I have on several occasion had friends ask me if I know what typefaces stores or brands use. Typically, I just guess Helvetica now that I have seen the documentary, but now we all know that Radio Shack used to use this wild font.

I know most people don't like "cheesy" font, hello Comic Sans haters, but I think all fonts have their time and place. However, I am glad that Radio Shack has updated its look to what we now know and love as its logo: