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 ...

While designers today may pay close attention to the kerning and tracking of letters on a screen, one arts trust wants to remind people that the traditional craft of letter carving shouldn’t be ...

Bold type can add an emphasis or strength to a font. Underlined type can be used for titles or to draw attention to important text. Italic type can emphasise an important word or passage of text or ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week, while Harper Lee is thrust back into the spotlight because of her much-anticipated sophomore novel Go Set a Watchman, someone else, heretofore unrelated to the book, is experiencing a ...

A photo-lettering app allows you to combine type and photos—generally in the form of type over photos. Yes, it’s how your friends are adding words like “keep calm” or “live, love, learn” or whatever ...