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“Me moaning about shoddy UI inconsistencies and mistakes in Adobe products and how they get shitter with every release and especially since they took on Macromedia’s idiotic philosophies.” Via @mike9r.

Vivien points to 32 websites that use the gorgeous Georgia for its typesetting. Via I love Typography, which BTW, did a great realign recently.

Recently stumbled upon Web Design Resources I Use, an outstanding collection of day-to-day tools. Via @gnz.

Smashing Magazine has a good recopilation of the Web Design Trends for 2009. I especially like the emboss/letterpress effect; that if applied properly, can produce sites as beautiful as this one.

grid buildrrr is another great tool for creating layouts using grids; you can even drag placeholder ad formats into the grid. Via Subtraction.

“Comalle is an organic typeface that rescues some elements of handwritten script, but its stroke does not necessary answer to a literal calligraphy structure”. Designed by the chilean typographer Juan Pablo De Gregorio.

Fontshop picks their Twenty Typefaces of 2008, and I wonder where Museo is. P22 Underground Pro is a highlight.

Here’s a new letterpress poster by Cameron Moll, this time, the Salt Lake Temple, designed only using type characters. Gorgeous.

Oscar Wilde Retrospective, a dossier publication for a local newspaper. Incredible experiment with type.