You can try your hand at creating one of your own or just marvel at the existing portraits (I do the latter). Via The Serif.

By Dominic McGill, via Balla Dora Typo-Grafika.

By Daren Newman, via Preik.

Look closely. Image by Tsang Kin-wah, via i love typography.

Arte Subtilissima, por la Qual se Enseña a Escreuir Perfectamente [The most delicate art of teaching a perfect hand] by Juan de Ycíar, dated 1550. More beautiful engravings at BibliOdyssey.

Anna Garforth’s ‘Mossenger’ project will use moss to create type for the verse of a poem written by poet Elly Stevens as part of YCN LIVE. Via swissmiss.

Anatomical type, via I Love Typography.

Via Flickr.

Coasters for the typophiliac, via swissmiss.

By Alexander Ver Huell, via BibliOdyssey.

Typographic tree columns at a new West Sussex library, via Ministry of Type. More photos on Flickr.

Via We heart it.

Installation by Sebastian Lemm, via YouWorkForThem.

Via The Ampersand, a site dedicated to the &.