Letterforms were created to record meaning – to hold ideas and prevent them from being lost. Over time, they evolved to ...

Ben Hersh is a designer at Medium. Sign up to get Backchannel's weekly newsletter. But by focusing on the smaller gaffes, we’re missing the big picture. Typography is much bigger than a ...

But to distinguish between the two, the study had to give people the same words, laid out in different fonts. In total, the team surveyed 400 men and women between the ages of 18 and 50.

In the testing of three distinct typefaces, researchers discovered that while the choice of typeface plays a crucial role in eliciting emotional responses, the preference for, and impact of, fonts ...

The typographic illustrations we intended the students to create could be of any medium and, most important, must have an idea. The student was instructed not to decorate but to illuminate.

It was the first computer with beautiful typography.” This was largely due to the groundbreaking work of Susan Kare, who designed Chicago, the first Apple Macintosh typeface, in 1983.

A change in Microsoft Word’s default typeface, from Calibri to Aptos, didn’t register for everyone, but fans of typography got excited. By Victor Mather When you read — a book, a traffic ...