I have to say, 30gms rocks! I found the wonderful This Day in Type through this post.

Many hours of typographical browsing pleasure here.

I came across Fontself today (via 30gms), and it looks like a promising project. From what I can tell, it’s like OpenType, but for bitmap fonts, but looking at it I’m wondering how much of each letter is rendered procedurally. It certainly implies that there is some procedural stuff going on there, but they won’t come out and say either way and most of the comments are in French (I’m still learning). Take a look at the examples page to see the state of the project.

This is an extraordinary piece of work. Notice that even though the piece is justified, the colour of the text is even throughout, with no obvious rivers or anything. The shape it makes on the page is gorgeous too. Really quite something to look at for a long time. You can read more about it, and download the PDF of it here.

It’s Helvetica’s birthday this week. What better present to get it than to buy an actual genuine licensed copy of the font?