I Love Typography has a great two-part article for the would-be font designers out there. The first article begins with some suggested software for designing fonts (FontForge is free!) and moves the reader through basic ideation processes (hand sketches, tablet-drawing). The second article gives a brief overview of some font design basics - kerning, vertical metrics, and horizontal metrics. This is a great introduction, and I Love Typography has some suggested reading in the sidebar for further investigation.

Designer Noah Scalin has just released a free skull font from his Skull-A-Day project.

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Smashingmagazine.com is great at doing extensive research on various aspects of design and them boiling the whole thing down into a brief article accompanied by a list of helpful resources / suggestions / bon mots... and they've done it again.

80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design tackles a problem that designers confront again and again when asked to choose appropriate typefaces for a particular design need from the endless sea of options available. They (after exhaustive research) chose 80 "bulletproof" fonts that can be considered effective starting places for every corporate design. Within you'll find some old stand-bys (your Helveticas, Myriads, and Palatinos) and some newcomers on the block (Houschka, Insider, Wingardium... Seriously?)

Enjoy.

Blanka sells posters and prints. In honor of Helvetica's 50th birthday they've put together a collection of 50 posters created by 50 different designers in 50 different years, all utilizing Helvetica. They're gorgeous and they're available to purchase and put on your wall.