October 28, 2003: This set of type guidelines includes pleasing hand-drawn illustrations and a practitioner's description of basic type design concepts:

Designing type is nothing more and nothing less than harmonizing black and white shapes. Black can't exist without white, and white can't exist without black. Black, the shape of a letter. White, the space in or in between letters.

The site also has a collection of type resource links. (via kottke)