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The Periodic Table of Typefaces
The Periodic Table of Typefaces covers a number of major fonts and includes information about the family and classification of each, the designer, the year the font was designed, and a ranking as cribbed from a number of internet sources.
The table might not be quite as entertaining as College Humor's Font Conference. But if you're a font

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Spoon Tangy said 6:41PM on 3-11-2009
Don't groups of elements that share similar attributes tend to arrange themselves in columns on the Periodic Table of the Elements, such as the noble gases do?
Yet here, the similar typefaces seem to appear next to each other horizontally, such as the blackletters and MICR-ish ones.
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El Taco said 8:57PM on 3-11-2009
You're right, this is way off.
PJL said 8:57PM on 3-11-2009
The metaphor could be interesting, but this execution needs a lot of work. As Spoon Tangy noted the columns or groups share similar characteristics (which is certainly true of fonts). Also, the rightmost column should start with typeface 2 and typeface 3 should be under 1. The layout needs some work.
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Marty said 7:18AM on 3-12-2009
How is Verdana missing?
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??? said 7:19AM on 3-12-2009
Or Wingdings, for that matter.
tingrin87 said 12:31AM on 3-15-2009
comic sans?
Darren said 8:02PM on 3-12-2009
Calibri is missing. If you don't know Calibri yet... you will soon. Wait 10 years and the name Arial won't mean a thing.
Arial killed Times New Roman.
Calibri will kill Arial.
Just ask Microsoft.
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