Typography is complicated. Letters are easy enough—we learn the alphabet as children and then cease to consciously notice them as time goes on—but typography, the art of crafting the written language, ...

The trends shaping 2026 tell a story of designers and brands reaching for more personality, more craft, and quite frankly, ...

Everyone identifies with type – whether they know it or not. The shape and form of letters transcend cultures, borders, languages, beliefs, age, time, surfaces, technology, and trends. No other medium ...

The acclaimed filmmaker of The Thin Blue Line and The Fog Of War reveals why he now types all his manuscripts in Baskerville. I used to write all of my manuscripts in Bembo. Now I write them in ...

For the past seven years, Edd Harrington and Anthony Sheret have dedicated their time to designing and building typefaces. Now the rest of the world is paying attention. Colophon Foundry recently ...

In today’s digital world, most words we read reach us via computer, television or smartphone. Even hardcover books are designed with the help of digital technology. Typographers have meticulously ...

It is something of an understatement to say that typographer Jan Tschichold was confident of his own importance. On the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1972, he wrote his own tribute in the third ...

The use of capitalization to grab attention, to convey importance or urgency, or emphasize a thought is a common stylistic usage in the internet age. Even the President of the United States seems to ...

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This story was co-published with Source. After decades of silently shouting at the top of its lungs, the National Weather Service recently announced that it’s going to stop publishing its forecasts ...