And does the distinction even matter anymore? We ask design experts Gary Hustwit, Eddie Opara, and Tobias Frere-Jones to weigh in. One of the major traps, when talking about type, is mixing up fonts ...

The Garamond font has been around for centuries. The original typeface was created in the 1500s by French engraver Claude Garamond. It is described as an "old-style serif" font, inspired by Roman ...

GTA players curious to know the name of the series' iconic font should know that it's called Pricedown. Technically, it uses a slightly modified version. Nonetheless, the Pricedown font is extremely ...

Designers have been bemoaning the state of typography in the browser since the dawn of the web. However, CSS 3 and the @font-face rule go a long way toward improving your font options. Throw in tools ...

In 2017, in a college town in western Virginia, Katherine Haenschen noticed something odd about the campaign signs of the Democrat seeking to flip a seat in the state's House of Delegates. "In town, ...

Parts of this article come from an excerpt of Just My Type by Simon Garfield. Published by arrangement with Gotham Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc ...

Whether you're choosing the right font for a professional document or a personal blog, ensuring good readability, impression, and impact are all important. Windows already comes with a host of ...

What did Comic Sans ever do to us? The font was one of the typefaces preloaded onto Windows 95—where it stuck out like a sore thumb alongside more stately options like Arial and Times New Roman—and as ...