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 ...
Stef Luthin squinted at her laptop screen. Something seemed off that January morning, but at first, she couldn’t pinpoint it. Then, the 25-year-old social media marketing coordinator in Chicago ...
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 ...
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 ...
Reading glasses or not, some fonts can be very hard to read. When it comes to readability of text, different attributes like the style, color and size make the design more or less visible. To ...
There are over a hundred fonts on Microsoft Word to choose from, but some stand out above all the others.
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 ...
We have access to more fonts today than ever before, and so many are free! Fonts, like graphics, can make or break a presentation (such as a PowerPoint slideshow); sell a book, magazine, newspaper (or ...