Lego, the Type Designer’s Friend

Mark Simonson has a really nifty website on typography. I originally found it because he built a mechanism for holding filmstrips of fonts out of Lego so he could scan them, but if you dig around you will find that there are plenty of other nifty things having to do with type design and typography, including his first attempt to design a font on a computer using a Sinclair ZX80 back in 1980. Good stuff.