Steve Matteson has designed some of the most ubiquitous typefaces in the world, and engineered the original core fonts for Microsoft, adapting Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier, which you’ve ...

What makes a great font for a smartphone? Aside from legibility, is it its simplicity, its brand recognition, or the way it influences people's feelings toward the product? From neutral and casual, to ...

Over the past few years, I kept bumping into something called Hershey fonts. After digging around, I found a 1967 government report by a fellow named Dr. Allen Vincent Hershey. Back in the 1960s, he ...

You wouldn’t steal a car…’ I grew up with that line. It was the unskippable message when you loaded up a DVD (which is in ...

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Czech type designers are making their mark on global typography. As Dominik Jůn discovered, the art of font design is deeply ...

A great font makes a huge difference when it comes to capturing people’s attention, whether it’s a potential customer or making an internal training exercise look more interesting. With countless ...

This week, while Harper Lee is thrust back into the spotlight because of her much-anticipated sophomore novel Go Set a Watchman, someone else, heretofore unrelated to the book, is experiencing a ...

Frank Lloyd Wright made his name on some of the United States’ most striking structures: an angular skyscraper with cantilevered floors, natural homes that harmonized with their environments, a museum ...