When a typeface is properly doing its job, you don’t notice it, at least not consciously. A display font – those used in logos and other attention-getting contexts – comments on and enhances what the ...

Few typefaces have achieved household name status. Times New Roman? Sure. Comic Sans? Maybe. Helvetica—definitely. So when it came to updating the famed sans-serif developed by Swiss designer Max ...

Beginning in the early 1890s artistic conventions — indeed academic art everywhere — were under attack by a kindred group of young artists who marched throughout Europe under the youthful banner of ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. NEW YORK (AP) – Jonathan Hoefler sounded unmistakably like someone who had ...

The best thing about Robert A.M. Stern’s forthcoming building for the Museum for African Art–the first new museum on Manhattan’s Museum Mile since the Guggenheim rose more than 50 years ago–has ...

Can you create a typeface specifically for a county? One that would capture the essence of the region: its people, landscape, complex past and future hopes? This was the challenge facing Bobby Tannam, ...

As you read this, most of these standard typefaces are familiar. They look similar, yet unique in their forms and possibly arouse different feelings within you. For Sasikarn Vongin and Sirin Gunkloy, ...

Three weeks ago, Domenic Lippa, a partner at Pentagram Design Consultancy, selected his favourite 10 fonts. His list inspired hundreds of readers to pick their preferred typeface. He says: 'Nowadays ...