Self-archiving posters
The nice people at selfarchive.org have put together a collection of letter-size posters under a Creative Commons license. Derivative works (e.g. mentioning the site for one’s own repository) are okay, as long as you also leave the attribution intact.
You can customize your own via their site, but I warn you: the resulting PDF has its bounding box drawn incredibly too large, and the font selection they offer has nothing whatever to do with the fonts actually employed on the posters. I recommend hacking the posters with an image-manipulation program instead.
Figuring out what the fonts on the posters actually are was a bit of a poser, at least for me; I know a serif from a descender, but I haven’t spent nearly enough time staring at type to be able to identify a font immediately.
I did figure out that the serif body font on the “save the world” one is Book Antiqua. I needed Joe Clark’s sharp eye to tell me that the heavy sans-serif is Impact.
Go to it, repository-rats. I will be.