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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.

Evergreen only×
8 mo on HN

Brown; color is weird

Technology Connections
Recommended 8× on HN · 2020–2026
6 mo on HN

Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Language

Built By Matt
Recommended 4× on HN · 2012–2025
6 mo on HN

FarewellEtaoinShrdlu

Drinks and Dice
Recommended 6× on HN · 2017–2026
5 mo on HN

How I Designed a Free Music Font for 5 Million Musicians (MuseScore 3.6)

Tantacrul
Recommended 5× on HN · 2021–2024
4 mo on HN

Mouse Cursor History (and why I made my own)

Posy
Recommended 4× on HN · 2022–2026
4 mo on HN

Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning]

suckerpinch
Recommended 5× on HN · 2021–2026
5 mo on HN

Computer Color is Broken

minutephysics
Recommended 4× on HN · 2015–2026
4 mo on HN

Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile

Computerphile
Recommended 4× on HN · 2014–2025
5 mo on HN

Plain Text - Dylan Beattie - NDC Copenhagen 2022

NDC Conferences
Recommended 5× on HN · 2022–2025
4 mo on HN

A quick tour of TeXmacs

TeXmacs Videos
Recommended 3× on HN · 2021–2023
4 mo on HN

Microsoft Re-Designs the iPod Packaging

Brant Walsh
Recommended 4× on HN · 2011–2026
3 mo on HN

Thoth's Pill - an Animated History of Writing

NativLang
Recommended 3× on HN · 2019–2023
3 mo on HN

Segmented Displays

Posy
Recommended 3× on HN · 2023–2026
3 mo on HN

AT&T Archives: Saul Bass Pitch Video for Bell System Logo Redesign

AT&T Tech Channel
Recommended 2× on HN · 2022–2024
3 mo on HN

WordTeX - A WYSIPCTWOTCG Typesetting Tool

Tom Wildenhain
Recommended 3× on HN · 2018–2025
3 mo on HN

Badness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version)

suckerpinch
Recommended 4× on HN · 2024–2026
2 mo on HN

Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed | Roman Mars

TED
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2023
3 mo on HN

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jan Misali
Recommended 3× on HN · 2021–2023
2 mo on HN

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 high definition.flv

Jed Joe
Recommended 2× on HN · 2013–2017
2 mo on HN

Pragmatic Unicode, or, How do I stop the pain?

Next Day Video
Recommended 2× on HN · 2015–2019
2 mo on HN

1993 interview re: Paul Rand and Steve Jobs

youareworthy
Recommended 2× on HN · 2010–2012
2 mo on HN

The Great 202 Jailbreak - Computerphile

Computerphile
Recommended 2× on HN · 2015–2024
2 mo on HN

Shop Vac (kinetic typography animation)

jmheather
Recommended 2× on HN · 2011–2023
1 mo on HN

There's No Crying in Flag Design

CGP Grey
Recommended 1× on HN · 2023–2026
1 mo on HN

Real Life Emoji Keyboard!

Tom Scott
Recommended 1× on HN · 2019–2024
1 mo on HN

Glenn Vanderburg - Cló: The Algorithms of TeX in Clojure

ClojureTV
Recommended 1× on HN · 2014–2017
1 mo on HN

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Word Crimes (Official 4K Video)

alyankovicVEVO
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2024
1 mo on HN

Pricing Design Work & Creativity (The Guide)

The Futur
Recommended 1× on HN · 2019–2022
1 mo on HN

Typesetters in the '80s - Computerphile

Computerphile
Recommended 1× on HN · 2015–2020
1 mo on HN

Redesign Your Logo (2010 live backing video)

NeilCicieregaMusic
Recommended 1× on HN · 2022–2025
1 mo on HN

The Weird World in RGB

Technology Connections
Recommended 1× on HN · 2020–2021

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