[whackberry]

Can someone explain this to a typography ignorant person please?

[davej]

What is there to explain. The shadow of the text makes a silhouette of a head.

[webXL]

And the shadow is really just the same arrangement of letters in black. I thought it was canvas at first because it was blurry, but they use CSS text-shadow for that effect.

[nitrogen]

The curious can prove this by pressing Ctrl-A to select the letters (and all other text on the page).