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 ...

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What constitutes a flawed typeface? For this article it is defined as a typeface that is perfectly fine — except for one nagging aspect, usually a single character. A flawed typeface is one that ...

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 ...

A scalable font technology from Adobe that renders fonts for both the printer and the screen. PostScript fonts come in Type 1 and Type 3 formats. Type 1 fonts use a simple, efficient command language ...

Designed by the guy behind the X-Files logo, Action Condensed is a new typeface that aims to make interfaces more exciting. Action Condensed feels a lot more dynamic than other interface typefaces.

Fonts finally have a special spot in Windows 11 and Windows 10 Settings. I have been using Windows for years, and Fonts have been one of my favorite features to fiddle around with when using themes.

A new breed of designers is refashioning classical Arabic fonts to combine beauty and readability for the digital era Cairo: There are 28 letters in the Arabic alphabet. There are four possible ...