Pocket Noodle - Eventually, everything connects

The League of Moveable Type offers a collection of free open-source fonts for use with @font-face. The folks behind this are also working on ‘Lettercase‘, a ‘social font manager’. There’s some great looking type so prepare to join the web font revolution!

P.S.Type – Mark Caneso’s new type lab offers a nice range of type including this fat sans ‘ps.Quatro‘. There’s some great type specimen sheets and iPhone backgrounds available for download.

Designers Books – Rare and out of print books reviewed by designers including this beauty ‘Graphis Diagrams‘.

The Daily Drop Cap. Typographer/Illustrator Jessica Hische creates a decorative initial cap on an almost daily basis which can be used for free.

Received my copy of Adrian Shaughnessy’s new book ‘Studio Culture: The Secret Life of the Graphic Design Studio‘ today. Providing a ‘unique glimpse into the inner workings of 28 leading graphic design studios’, it’s also the first book to be published by new publishing house ‘Unit Editions‘.

• Nice typographic motion work for the 5th Typophile Film Festival opening credits.
• If you printed the internet…
• Signpostr – Online resource for those looking to find work and/or develop new projects
• Interesting use of Google Maps to showcase your design portfolio

Typedia a resource to classify, categorize, and connect typefaces looks like it could be the wikipedia of type.

• Get your robo.to on. Neat little social video avatar tool.
• Anonymous Pro – A family of four fixed width fonts from typographer Mark Simonson. Freeware as well!
• Nice to see initiatives like ‘Directgov’s Innovate‘. A collaborative open source environment for government and developers to interact.
• Academic Earth – Great resource for video lectures from the world’s top scholars.

PT Sewed – Monoline vector type designed by Flo Gaertner and available from Volcano Type.

Typenuts – Type inspired wallpaper themes for desktop and iPhone use.