worth a read

There are ten, maybe fifteen very good typefaces, which I can agree with at least. There are 30,000 on the market, of which 29,990 can be sunk in the Pacific Ocean without causing any cultural damage.

Kurt Weidemann (1922-2011)

some examples of the experiments that we did looking at building characters from characters, numerals, punctuation marks and glyphs. 

A great way to look at the real details of fonts and individual faces.

… and credit to Preston - it's a brief that Uni of Central Lancashire use, so it must be good!