There are two kinds of people in the world: those who care about fonts and those who have never heard of such a ridiculous thing as caring about fonts. Those who care about fonts care passionately. For example, my father’s font is Helvetica; my friend Abbye’s font is Garamond; my friend Bridget’s font is Book Antiqua; C-VILLE’s font is Minion. Those who do not care about fonts allow their lives to pass them by in a fog of Times New Roman.
But these are all traditional fonts found on Microsoft Word—fonts merely for the casual font-watcher. For the true font fiend, or even just for the font-curious, Typographica, an online journal that posts (approximately) a new article a month, is on hand to satisfy inquiring minds. The relative infrequency of new content is made up for in the quality of said content. If you want to be up-to-date on the most relevant news from the world of fonts, this isn’t a bad place to start.
Say, for instance, you neglected to read a single article in the past year and a half about new fonts on the market in 2007. Well, you’re in luck, because the March article on Typographica rounds up the editor’s font picks from that year. And there are some nice ones: I very much like Lineare Serif, Feijoa, and National. But it’s window-shopping only. And, like window shopping in front of Prada before returning to your closet full of Gap, Goudy Old Style awaits me in Microsoft Word.