Graphic Design & Typography Videos Hacker News Recommends

explainer#301

Brown; color is weird

Technology Connections

“made me watch a 20 minutes videos on the color brown and makes it feel like magic”

8 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

commentary#400

Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Language

Built By Matt

“I highly encourage this 6 minute take by Stephen Fry on Language”

4 HN recommenders · 2012–2025

documentary#521

FarewellEtaoinShrdlu

Drinks and Dice

“the final day the New York Times was printed using their linotype machines.”

6 HN recommenders · 2017–2026

explainer#655

How I Designed a Free Music Font for 5 Million Musicians (MuseScore 3.6)

Tantacrul

“He does a good job at making the topic of music notation come to life”

5 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

explainer#657

Mouse Cursor History (and why I made my own)

Posy

“It is one of those amazing videos that make the internet worthwhile, is short”

4 HN recommenders · 2022–2026

comedy#749

Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning]

suckerpinch

“it just keeps getting better and better as the video progresses. I laughed so hard.”

5 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

explainer#756

Computer Color is Broken

minutephysics

“I found minutephysics' treatment of this subject to be really pleasant and easy to grok.”

4 HN recommenders · 2015–2026

explainer#757

Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile

Computerphile

“a wonderful, terse, very informative video describing how utf-8 encoding works and why”

4 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

talk#797

Plain Text - Dylan Beattie - NDC Copenhagen 2022

NDC Conferences

“you owe it to yourself to check out this super entertaining talk”

5 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

demo#1045

A quick tour of TeXmacs

TeXmacs Videos

“See here a short video describing its features”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

demo#1224

Refterm v2 - Resource usage, binary splat, glyph sizing, and more

Molly Rocket

“Casey Muratori produced a highly correct Unicode renderer with correct VT code support. Watch the video”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

comedy#1245

Microsoft Re-Designs the iPod Packaging

Brant Walsh

“brutal but hilarious commentary on Microsoft's inherent dysfunction when it comes to product naming and packaging”

4 HN recommenders · 2011–2026

documentary#1299

Thoth's Pill - an Animated History of Writing

NativLang

“I also recommend Thoth's Pill, an amazing historical overview of writing systems”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

explainer#1307

Segmented Displays

Posy

“here is a meditative video on alternative segmented displays.”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

talk#1449

AT&T Archives: Saul Bass Pitch Video for Bell System Logo Redesign

AT&T Tech Channel

“I always go back to the Saul Bass presentation to AT&T over their 1970 logo redesign.”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2024

demo#1772

WordTeX - A WYSIPCTWOTCG Typesetting Tool

Tom Wildenhain

“this one on WordTeX is excellent”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

talk#2130

Badness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version)

suckerpinch

“this fun experiment in Typesetting which starts off with the amazing TeX origin story”

4 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

talk#2266

Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed | Roman Mars

TED

“one must watch the short talk on state and country flags”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

explainer#2288

w

jan Misali

“If you're interested in fascinating deep dives into the history of a few odd letters”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

talk#2530

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 high definition.flv

Jed Joe

“I suggest you see Steve Jobs' Stanford Commencement Speech (2005)”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2017

talk#2660

Pragmatic Unicode, or, How do I stop the pain?

Next Day Video

“After A TON OF PAIN I decided to put the time in to watch the talk”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2019

interview#2690

1993 interview re: Paul Rand and Steve Jobs

youareworthy

“I really enjoyed his uncompromising attitude”

2 HN recommenders · 2010–2012

talk#2789

Introducing SILE: A New Typesetting System

lathosjp

“was nice introduction, although I don't know how up to date it is”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2022

interview#2890

The Great 202 Jailbreak - Computerphile

Computerphile

“explained the brilliant and exiting history of this paper and its recreation, as well as the history of Phototypesetters.”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

music#3515

Shop Vac (kinetic typography animation)

jmheather

“this amazing piece of kinetic typography / video done to Jonathan Coulton's Shop-Vac”

2 HN recommenders · 2011–2023

commentary#3681

There's No Crying in Flag Design

CGP Grey

“This one video has had more influance on flag design than any written editorial.”

1 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

demo#3795

Real Life Emoji Keyboard!

Tom Scott

“emoji-ized keyboards like Tom Scott did (as a stunt)”

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

talk#3870

Glenn Vanderburg - Cló: The Algorithms of TeX in Clojure

ClojureTV

“The video goes into this better than the InfoQ article.”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2017

music#3873

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Word Crimes (Official 4K Video)

alyankovicVEVO

“I think Weird Al's version is better and more educational than the original”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

lecture#4185

Pricing Design Work & Creativity (The Guide)

The Futur

“This is a pretty good talk about pricing design work”

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

explainer#4291

Typesetters in the '80s - Computerphile

Computerphile

“explained the brilliant and exiting history of this paper and its recreation, as well as the history of Phototypesetters.”

1 HN recommenders · 2015–2020

comedy#4458

Redesign Your Logo (2010 live backing video)

NeilCicieregaMusic

“The corporate PowerPoint visuals just adds so much.”

1 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

explainer#4708

The Weird World in RGB

Technology Connections

“This video from Technology Connections helps explain”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2021