Take some time to watch this great featurette on The Hattery Font, a typeface designed by James Edmondson. Typography design is one of those fields of creation that I can't even begin to wrap my brain around - particularly when it's done this well.

When you're done watching, go read this and then snag some typefaces: Lavanderia, Mission Script, Edmondsans, Duke and Wisdom Script all from Lost Type.