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
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)
5 mo on HNComputer Color is Broken
4 mo on HNCharacters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile
3 mo on HNSegmented Displays
3 mo on HNw
1 mo on HNTypesetters in the '80s - Computerphile
1 mo on HNThe Weird World in RGB
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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