Graphic design & typography Videos Recommended on Hacker News (33)
Graphic design & typography is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 33 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 and 2026 — 96 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Graphic design: typography, fonts, logos, layout, color theory, kinetic typography, branding, Unicode and text rendering, calligraphy, visual identity.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Brown; color is weird: “made me watch a 20 minutes videos on the color brown and makes it feel like magic” — an HN commenter, 2024.
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8 mo on HNBrown; color is weird
6 mo on HNStephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Language
6 mo on HNFarewellEtaoinShrdlu
5 mo on HNHow I Designed a Free Music Font for 5 Million Musicians (MuseScore 3.6)
4 mo on HNMouse Cursor History (and why I made my own)
4 mo on HNUppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning]
5 mo on HNComputer Color is Broken
4 mo on HNCharacters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile
5 mo on HNPlain Text - Dylan Beattie - NDC Copenhagen 2022
4 mo on HNA quick tour of TeXmacs
4 mo on HNRefterm v2 - Resource usage, binary splat, glyph sizing, and more
4 mo on HNMicrosoft Re-Designs the iPod Packaging
3 mo on HNThoth's Pill - an Animated History of Writing
3 mo on HNSegmented Displays
3 mo on HNAT&T Archives: Saul Bass Pitch Video for Bell System Logo Redesign
3 mo on HNWordTeX - A WYSIPCTWOTCG Typesetting Tool
3 mo on HNBadness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version)
2 mo on HNWhy city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed | Roman Mars
3 mo on HNw
2 mo on HNSteve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 high definition.flv
2 mo on HNPragmatic Unicode, or, How do I stop the pain?
2 mo on HN1993 interview re: Paul Rand and Steve Jobs
2 mo on HNIntroducing SILE: A New Typesetting System
2 mo on HNThe Great 202 Jailbreak - Computerphile
2 mo on HNShop Vac (kinetic typography animation)
1 mo on HNThere's No Crying in Flag Design
1 mo on HNReal Life Emoji Keyboard!
1 mo on HNGlenn Vanderburg - Cló: The Algorithms of TeX in Clojure
1 mo on HN"Weird Al" Yankovic - Word Crimes (Official 4K Video)
1 mo on HNPricing Design Work & Creativity (The Guide)
1 mo on HNTypesetters in the '80s - Computerphile
1 mo on HNRedesign Your Logo (2010 live backing video)
1 mo on HNThe Weird World in RGB
Also discussed on Hacker News (5)
Mentioned in HN threads about graphic design & typography, though never formally recommended:
Papyrus - SNL · I can't show you how pink this pink is. · The Tube Map nearly looked very different · American Psycho -Business Card Scene · Lies on the London Underground