Periodic Table of Typefaces

Craving a bit of order in a font-frenzied world? Bring out your scientific side with the Periodic Table of Typefaces, which replaces the chemical elements with today's most popular, influential, and notorious typefaces. Created by graphic designer Cam Wilde, the chart organizes 100 typefaces—from Adline (A) to Zapfino (Z)—into families and classes: sans-serif, serif, script, blackletter, glyphic, display, grotesque, realist, didone, garalde, geometric, humanist, slab-serif, and mixed. Typophiles can download and print their own copies of the wildly popular table or order one in the form of a poster, vinyl decal, t-shirt, or Moleskine cover. But beware of overanalyzing the relationship of the fonts with their corresponding elements. Says Wilde, "The fact that Helvetica is number one and matches up with Hydrogen's position is purely a nice coincidence."