Fontshop.com is celebrating their 20th birthday.  To mark the occasion, they’ve released a slew of beautiful infographics that compile some interesting font statistics.  Typo-centric infographics about fonts?  This is some seriously meta stuff.

[via]

Fondation Cartier of Paris, made this awesome site, which analyses Paris grafitti tags letter by letter. I came across this through infosthetics, a blog dedicated to data visualizations (Adam would be proud), which is worthy of a post on its own. Check them both out.

After a overly long hiatus, for various reasons, we’ll be (make that a royal we, I can’t make promises for others) back posting on a regular basis. I’ve managed to place myself back in school for at least another year so I’ll have the time to keep you up to date on the things we do.

Remember to add our RSS feed or follow us @convoke to keep up to date.

I suppose you’ll have to trust me when I say that despite having differing methods for solving them, Dave and I sort of have a thing for Rubik’s Cubes.  So you can imagine our delight when we discovered that Jas Bhachu had turned the scourge of frustrated cubers everywhere into a painfully tedious and slow method for typesetting.  Awesome.

If it helps, Jas has been kind enough to include instructions on how to make each character.  Or, you know, you could carve your message into solid stone.  With your face.

[via]

It’s no secret that we love typography here at CONVOKE, but it’s easy to focus on letter-shapes and completely ignore special characters and punctuation.

This ends now.

The Ampersand, run by Stephen Gose,  is a blog devoted to one character and one character alone.  There you’ll find the history of the symbol (originating as a contraction of  ‘et’, the Latin word for ‘and’) as well as pictures of  signs, documents, and even tombstones with unique and interesting ampersands.  There’s also a section devoted to ampersand fan-art, where people submit their own creations, like this one made of woodchips by designer Sarah France.  I’m glad someone is making sure this little guy gets the credit he deserves.

[via]

Mine just arrived in the mail. Thugs, in particular bone thugs, and especially those with a penchant for typography, should take note. Brought to us by the fine folks at HVW8.