Typography and and use of fonts in graphic design, packaging and art has always interested me.

A great online source  for original and unusual fonts is  HMF (HandMadeFont), an Estonian design company founded by two brothers, Vladimir  and Maksim Loginov.   Their unique  and  nontraditional typefaces  are not  keyable fonts, they are raster images and each letter form has to be  hand set and composed or ‘laid down’.  While this is done digitally, it is not too far from traditional hand composition/typesetting,  which involved  placing down ONE  letter, punctuation mark or space at a time.

Here is a short video of  an origami inspired font in an animated sequence: