As typographically rich publishing reaches beyond paper to the Web, Monotype Imaging expands its customer base by buying its rival's MyFonts Web service as well as lots of fonts. Stephen Shankland ...

Thank two font magicians for making sure digital fonts had a future. Type Specimen: A Dream for Type Fiends Comes True on iPad With stellar UI design, "Type Specimen" lets you mix, match, and visually ...

Photoshop fonts are getting more customizable. On Thursday, September 28, Adobe shared a sneak peek at a future coming to Photoshop this year: Variable fonts. Variable fonts are a relative newcomer to ...

It’s safe to assume that most people have no idea that fonts, like music or movies, are protected by intellectual property laws, they usually come with a hefty price tag, and they are uncommonly ...

It’s easy to overlook one of the most important elements of UI design: text. It hides everywhere – tucked inside button labels, scattered through tool tips, skulking under home-screen icons. In laying ...

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 ...

The five capital letters are 96 years old. They’re embossed on terra cotta panels mortared into brick on the north face of the historic Bemis building in Sodo, and they’re beautiful. Almost regal.

It's Typography Week, and we're delving into the the history of sans serif, one of the most iconic typefaces in use today. Literally translating to ‘without serif’, this typeface can be mapped to ...