BrainFuel

This is a rather smart idea – using font-embed to handle icons.

Useful for identifying the particular parts of a letter.

Text set in lower case is more legible than text set all in upper case (capitals), presumably because lower case letter structures and word shapes are more distinctive. — The Wikipedia article on Typography

These designs are just flat out amazing to me. Love the vibrant color, detail, typography, effects. Designed by Moxie Sozo for Leap Organics and scheduled to launch spring 2010. Can’t wait to see them in the wild.

If you haven’t been paying attention, you may have missed learning about Font Squirrel. Here at Tornado we’re big fans of the site. It is quickly becoming one of the best sources of high quality fonts on the web — and free ones, too.

They recently released @Font-Face Kits, which is a tool that allows you to easily use any of the fonts on Font Squirrel in your web sites. It’s a great tool for using custom fonts but preserving search optimization.

The Punched Out Font (free on dafont.com) gives you a way to create cut-out letters which you can form into words. Perfect for your 15-minute break!

Chromeography is a site dedicated to vehicle typography. Shown in the form of beautiful photographs… hundreds of car logos, and other chrome emblems of the vehicle age.

Alex from HypeForType emailed to let me know about their new typeface collection. It’s called Exclusive Faces Volume 2. It’s a nice collection of edgy and cool fonts.

One thing you don’t want to miss is their blog. It has some cool typography design effects and experiments.