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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.

Explainer×
8 mo on HN

Brown; color is weird

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

Segmented Displays

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

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

Typesetters in the '80s - Computerphile

Computerphile
Recommended 1× on HN · 2015–2020
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