I think in the blogging and online world there are two types of folks - the font lovers and those that are just fine with arial, helvetica, times roman, and verdana as their arsenal of expression.
I'm a little font obsessed to be honest. In fact it really made my week (actually my long working weekend) when I found a slew of new goodies over at dafont.com to use in my design of our new tumblr pages. Like really made my weekend. Here's one of them below - it's just HoneyScript with a little clip art but I've always loved that font.
Another more adventurous one I found is A Morris Line which totally looks like knitting to me.
Years ago I remember going to have a magazine namemark typeset - typeset!! Looking through a book of fonts and pointing, then having someone do a super hi res mechanical print out so that a printer could make a film. Wow - that was a lot of effort that took up tons of time.
This morning I was going through my other addiction, Tumblr, when I came across thedailywhat's post of a comic strip about fonts (it's above). It led me to a page where some mutual font lovers had gathered little snippets of font lovin' humor. One of them is this video below:
And then there's this other very funny one:
