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 ...

Google Fonts, the company's archive of free, open source fonts, lists more than 800 typographic designs. But Noto Serif CJK, which the company unveiled today, is unique in its utility. It looks ...

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 ...

Older arcade games such as ' Space Invaders ' and ' Pac-Man ' used bitmap fonts expressed on an 8x8 grid to save space. A movie has been released to explain how the fonts for arcade games were ...

Typographers will cringe, but I've always had a soft spot for Comic Sans. It was the first font I ever used. I was aged seven and making mayhem at my dad's office. My exasperated father sat me at his ...

A newly launched travelling exhibition of lettering posters, staged in Brisbane, Australia, from April 16 to 20, has generated 150 artworks from university students worldwide. Dubbed FiftyFifty, the ...

Researchers say font, which slants to the left and has gaps in each letter, can aid recall Click here to read this article in Sans Forgetica Australian researchers say they have developed a new tool ...