On Friday, Slate published an article by author Jason Fagone about his lifelong devotion to typography, and a new Website where you can create your own.

The site reminds me of the old paintshop program I used to fiddle around with when I had gotten sick of playing hangman on the family computer -- way before spider solitaire, of course.

And I have already wasted hours perfecting my font, which I have named after my kitten. Logic follows that it will be cute, but completely crazy.

If you're a fellow lover of typography, but DIY fonts aren't quite your style, you should check out the documentary Helvetica. And just to keep this post a little more literary, David Sacks wrote an incredible history of the alphabet titled Letter Perfect, documenting how our alphabet developed into what it is today.

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