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

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 ...

Steve Jobs was often quoted as crediting his success to a seemingly irrelevant source: a course on calligraphy that he took as an undergraduate at Reed College, where Jobs enrolled in 1972, then after ...

Lato has been one of the most consistently popular stars of the Google Fonts library for the last six years. What is the secret behind its success? And how was a font that ended up being used on ...

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 ...

Inspired by a rich history of women in crafting spaces, this graphic designer merges thoughtful typeface design with ...

Hermann Zapf, who has died aged 96, was a greatly respected figure in the world of type, or font, design; while millions of people the world over encounter his work daily, he remained largely unknown ...