When most of us consider video game visuals, we might think of graphics — how realistically an alien world, race track or war zone can be replicated. We might not immediately think of fonts. But a new ...

AI will revolutionise the design and use of typography, a new report claims. Monotype just released their annual type trends report, but unlike in previous years, it isn’t a look back at ten visual ...

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Labels are often the first point of contact between a brand and its potential customers. Every element of a label, like color, imagery, material, and even shape, plays a role in shaping consumer ...

Typography is just one method used to convey information to an end user, while creating typographical contrast helps focus attention and bring balance to an overall composition. At its simplest, ...

Graphic and type designer Margot Lévêque talks about the importance of taking your time when designing and the problems with Instagram-based type foundries Though there have always been typography ...

Meg Donohoe and Mitch Paone, co-founders of the influential design company DIA, talk about why process should come before aesthetics and how using motion design in their work felt radical at the ...

Amsterdam designer Monique Goossens has made a typeface with strands of human hair. Goossens' Hair Typography is crafted by arranging bunches of hairs into the shapes of single letters. Each character ...

Type designer Marie Boulanger has written a book about how typography is a "dangerous tool" for reinforcing gendered stereotypes and bias in design. Called XX, XY: Sex, Letters and Stereotypes, the ...

What's old will be new again in typography during 2021. The Word Counter predicts that classic looks such as serif fonts, psychedelic vibes, and the brutalist aesthetic could make a comeback this year ...