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Graphic design & typography Videos Recommended on Hacker News (38)
Graphic design & typography is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 38 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
Technology Connections
8 HN recommender · 2020–2026
6 mo on HNStephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Language
Built By Matt
4 HN recommender · 2012–2025
6 mo on HNFarewellEtaoinShrdlu
Drinks and Dice
6 HN recommender · 2017–2026
5 mo on HNHow I Designed a Free Music Font for 5 Million Musicians (MuseScore 3.6)
Tantacrul
5 HN recommender · 2021–2024
4 mo on HNMouse Cursor History (and why I made my own)
Posy
4 HN recommender · 2022–2026
4 mo on HNUppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning]
suckerpinch
5 HN recommender · 2021–2026
5 mo on HNComputer Color is Broken
minutephysics
4 HN recommender · 2015–2026
4 mo on HNCharacters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile
Computerphile
4 HN recommender · 2014–2025
5 mo on HNPlain Text - Dylan Beattie - NDC Copenhagen 2022
NDC Conferences
5 HN recommender · 2022–2025
4 mo on HNA quick tour of TeXmacs
TeXmacs Videos
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023
4 mo on HNRefterm v2 - Resource usage, binary splat, glyph sizing, and more
Molly Rocket
3 HN recommender · 2021–2025
4 mo on HNMicrosoft Re-Designs the iPod Packaging
Brant Walsh
4 HN recommender · 2011–2026
3 mo on HNThoth's Pill - an Animated History of Writing
NativLang
3 HN recommender · 2019–2023
3 mo on HNSegmented Displays
Posy
3 HN recommender · 2023–2026
3 mo on HNAT&T Archives: Saul Bass Pitch Video for Bell System Logo Redesign
AT&T Tech Channel
2 HN recommender · 2022–2024
3 mo on HNWordTeX - A WYSIPCTWOTCG Typesetting Tool
Tom Wildenhain
3 HN recommender · 2018–2025
3 mo on HNBadness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version)
suckerpinch
4 HN recommender · 2024–2026
2 mo on HNWhy city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed | Roman Mars
TED
3 HN recommender · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNw
jan Misali
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023
2 mo on HNSteve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 high definition.flv
Jed Joe
2 HN recommender · 2013–2017
2 mo on HNPragmatic Unicode, or, How do I stop the pain?
Next Day Video
2 HN recommender · 2015–2019
2 mo on HN1993 interview re: Paul Rand and Steve Jobs
youareworthy
2 HN recommender · 2010–2012
2 mo on HNIntroducing SILE: A New Typesetting System
lathosjp
2 HN recommender · 2016–2022
2 mo on HNThe Great 202 Jailbreak - Computerphile
Computerphile
2 HN recommender · 2015–2024
2 mo on HNShop Vac (kinetic typography animation)
jmheather
2 HN recommender · 2011–2023
1 mo on HNThere's No Crying in Flag Design
CGP Grey
1 HN recommend · 2023–2026
1 mo on HNReal Life Emoji Keyboard!
Tom Scott
1 HN recommend · 2019–2024
1 mo on HNGlenn Vanderburg - Cló: The Algorithms of TeX in Clojure
ClojureTV
1 HN recommend · 2014–2017
1 mo on HN"Weird Al" Yankovic - Word Crimes (Official 4K Video)
alyankovicVEVO
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HNPricing Design Work & Creativity (The Guide)
The Futur
1 HN recommend · 2019–2022
1 mo on HNTypesetters in the '80s - Computerphile
Computerphile
1 HN recommend · 2015–2020
1 mo on HNRedesign Your Logo (2010 live backing video)
NeilCicieregaMusic
1 HN recommend · 2022–2025
1 mo on HNThe Weird World in RGB
Technology Connections
1 HN recommend · 2020–2021
0 mo on HNLies on the London Underground
Tom Scott
0 HN recommender · 2020–2025
0 mo on HNI can't show you how pink this pink is.
Tom Scott
0 HN recommender · 2018–2026
0 mo on HNAmerican Psycho -Business Card Scene
Alex Curro
0 HN recommender · 2013–2023