A few helpful typography links to kick your fonts into high gear

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Here at WebRulon, we constantly scour the net to give you the best links “money” can buy. This time around? Typography. Here are a few helpful links that have popped up over the past week. Enjoy and, as always, thank us later.

25 creative use of typography in packaging design – Some of these are really cool, and oddly, most feature ads for liquor. Who knew the powers that be in liquordom were so creative. Shouldn’t they be too, um, drunk for that?

Best fonts of 2009 – Typography.com lays out their favorite fonts of 2009. This is especially useful if you were in a coma all year and missed them all. But seriously, 2009 had some good stuff. Let’s own it in 2010.

45 creative examples of typography in the wild – This wild, wild list chronicles the best fonts that have appeared in the real world, meaning, they actually exist. Wait, but more than the way fonts already exist. Like a dude wearing a font suit. Seriously. Sigh. You’ll just have to read it and see.

That’s it for now, font freaks. Keep striving!