Google and Typekit have apparently worked together on a collaboration on open source fonts. In a nutshell, it appears to be the Typekit service, a javascript library called WebFont Loader and a bunch of open source fonts thrown into a mix together. Here’s Google’s and Typekit’s announcement. Note, though, that it doesn’t work on iPhone, iPad or Android as of yet. Still, I’ve got a good feeling about this.

Update: The previewer tool is also worth checking out.

Here’s something nerdy, but fun. David Desandro one day wondered if it would be possible to create a typeface using only CSS. And then he did it. It’s a nice mixture of span’s that create the inner workings of the typeface using border-radius and other goodies to perform this magic. It also looks pretty cool, in a chic kind of way. If the thought of this gives you a weird smirk on your face (like, you know, the kind of smirk I’ve got right now) I suggest you head over to his site and inspect the hell out of that code.

Update: Perhaps even cooler, how about The Opera Logo?

Typeface.js is an alternative to using Cufón for text rendering.

This is pretty interesting, and useful, when it comes to type within small areas.

The preview of Kris Sowersby’s new font “Karbon” looks really promising.

One of my kid dreams has come true: Rotated text, in HTML (using CSS). Wonderful.

Can’t believe I haven’t linked to this yet. Typography; for the web.

How to spot the difference.

Richard Rutter makes some good points regarding font stacks, and also adds a nice little matrix with fonts usually installed on people’s machines.

Love the details in this Decorative alphabet by flickr user onetwentyeight.

The user fabianohikaru has a really beautiful typographic artwork over at Deviantart.

I ♥ you.