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We built this city…on typography.

If you're crazy about typography, the new Scrabble edition will not fail to entice you. The popular boardgame company has just released the limited edition Scrabble Typography. The new version features a beautiful storage case with a drawer, a matching six-panel magnetized gameboard as well as tiles that carry different and exciting fonts-all of which are made of solid walnut.

via @saltinejustine

Type surrounds us, from street signs and subway maps to cellphone interfaces and the tags tucked behind our shirt collars. Yet, until relatively recently, many of didn't take notice of the decision-making and craft behind the design of those letters--not until, that is, computers gave us the choice between hundreds of fonts and the possibility to design our very own.