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A large majority of you expressed your displeasure for the new Facebook font size, so if you're straining to read your friends' latest status updates, take note: there are a few ways to increase the size of the font with a few simple and handy workarounds.

Of course, you can always increase the font size on your computer by clicking the "control" and "+" symbol (or "open Apple" and "+" for Mac users), which will increase text and image sizes on your screen. But there's another way to get a better look at your Facebook messages as well. Find out what it is after the break.

As soon as font options were introduced to AOL, it was the font I chose. It's still the font with which my mother writes emails (signed with an emoticon smiley face), but the chosen font for one of the most-read posts on the Internet? What? Yesterday, after LeBron James announced which NBA team he'll be playing for, the owner of the Cavaliers posted a serious, angry open letter to fans, denouncing the player's decision and promising to bring a championship to Cleveland.

The problem? The letter was posted completely in the Comic Sans font. And despite the angry message the letter contained, the font almost made it laughable. The Cavs owner's font choice quickly made it into a trending topic on Twitter, and blogs picked up the story, calling Comic Sans, "a staple among six year old and grandmothers." Now that all of the hype surrounding "The Decision" is subsiding, do you agree that the font choice looks a little silly? Or is everyone making a big deal out of nothing?

Confession: I am a huge font nerd. And like most vintage geek collectors, I am always on the hunt for old timey tech. While I have a pretty decent collection of vintage typewriters, I knew the only way to pay proper respect to my passion for typography was to learn letterpress printing.

After taking months of workshops and making my own set of unique greeting cards, I finally felt like I conquered the massive machines and their rows of movable type. As a thank-you, my guy surprised me with a beautiful letterpress necklace ($75) I'd been coveting from Brooklyn-based jewelry designer, Erica Weiner.

Font nerds, get excited! The necklace is an actual piece of movable type from a hand-cranked Vandercook Proof Press. The type was saved from being melted down, plated in gold, and hung from a brass chain. You can order a single letter of the alphabet or go the route of my guy, and get two initials for you and your beau. If you're not big into gold, don't worry — silver is an option too.

I've already talked about the ultra compact iQ car, the tiny hybrid from Toyota, which has already been released in Europe and Japan. Unfortunately, a similar model won't be available in the US until 2012.

But, thanks to my font-geek friends, I made this discovery: Toyota took an interactive artist, font designers, and a stunt driver, put them together, and came up with a new font, called the iQfont.

Visit Toyota's Belgian site to watch a video detailing how they came up with the font. In a nutshell, it involves cameras positioned over an open space, a Toyota iQ with four colored dots, and software that tracks the car's movement as it draws out each letter. The result is a totally unique font.

I'm not sure that this beats a font created out of my own handwriting, but it's pretty impressive.