Lost Type is a font foundry with a different spin. They have some really great looking fonts on a “pay what you want” cost basis. So you can pay $0, or as much as you think the font is worth. 100% of the sales go directly to the designer of the font. It’s a cool idea, that I hope takes off for these guys. 

I’m excited to try out this new plugin by the impressive folks at Paravel. Their explanation describes it well enough…

A jQuery plugin for inflating web type. FitText makes font-sizes flexible. Use this plugin on your fluid or responsive layout to achieve scalable headlines that fill the width of a parent element.

Sure I can find out what fonts are being used on a site by going into web inspector or something similar, but that’s far too much work. With this bookmarklet all I have to do is click the bookmark then hover over the fonts I’m curious about. I love it!

Super handy list of keyboard shortcuts for typography in Photoshop.

Frank Chimero puts together this great write up on how to improve your designs by using proper typographic hierarchy. I love the simplicity and how he incrementally builds on his example throughout the post.