One of the major traps, when talking about type, is mixing up fonts with typefaces or treating them as synonymous. Many a typographic expert has haughtily corrected a beginner for mistakenly using the ...

The clean, modern typeface has adorned the New Yorker, Shake Shack and even HBO’s Girls – now it might bedeck your last home Maybe you recognize it from the Shake Shack nameplate, text in the New ...

In the throes of writing, we don’t usually think about the details of printing our books. But, once our storytelling is done, decisions need to be made, not the least of which is what font or fonts to ...

Among the thousands of features on your smartphone, one you’ve probably never thought about is which fonts it uses. Typography is involved in almost everything we do on our devices — the emails we ...

How many fonts are installed on your computer? A hundred? A thousand? Simply knowing the differences between all these options is a daunting enough prospect, much less knowing which one is the “right” ...

Decimated by manufacturing losses, some smaller cities are turning for help to an unlikely group of people: typeface designers. Can new fonts really breathe life into the postindustrial city? The ...

Obsidian’s aesthetic mimics the dawn of type design, but is completely computerized Obsidian’s aesthetic mimics the dawn of type design, but is completely computerized Methods of type design have ...

Pioneering British graphic designer Neville Brody created Coca-Cola's first bespoke font in its 130-year history earlier this year. Using the brand's archive Brody developed a typeface that aims to ...