A great font makes a huge difference when it comes to capturing people’s attention, whether it’s a potential customer or making an internal training exercise look more interesting. With countless ...

Though he was only 40 years old when he died, graphic designer Alvin Lustig left an indelible mark in the world of advertising, typography, and visual communication, creating dozens of book jackets, ...

In another life Mark Bloom might have become a comic-strip illustrator. But in a moment of self-realisation in his teens he knew he was just not quite good enough to make a living as an artist and ...

We are currently in the middle of Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from mid-September to mid-October. There are plenty of reasons to celebrate the contributions of the nation’s nearly 64 million ...

There are certain celebrity fonts that get so much play, they’re instantly recognizable. (Looking at you, Helvetica, Comic Sans, and Times New Roman.) But it can be frustrating to sleuth the true ...

A typeface has been created for the Welsh language which celebrate the country’s heritage. The fonts have been designed by the Cardiff office of design studio Smörgåsbord, in collaboration with the ...

In the early 1980s, my job in the graphics department at a newspaper meant spending a large part of my day typing words and control codes into a computer terminal to set type I’d use for headlines on ...

“It was like stepping into the future, a living exhibition of avant-garde design, a kaleidoscope of Constructivist billboards and modernist fonts,” recalled the designer Richard Hollis when telling me ...

The historic individuality of Detroit's faded neighborhoods is preserved in characters, literally — in the fonts lining the vintage signs and hand-painted advertisements of small businesses. That is, ...