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 ...

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 ...

Comic Sans has become the font of all jokes and memes. Loved by some, reviled by many. Unsurprisingly, its creator is its biggest fan. Speaking at WIRED's annual two-day conference, Vincent Connare ...

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 ...

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Prolific typeface designer Hermann Zapf passed away earlier this month at the age of 96. The creator of approximately 200 fonts and typefaces, he is best known for his works Optima, Palatino, Zapfino, ...

When Roy Chan Ching-hin noticed how Hong Kong staples, namely bamboo theatres and dim sum trolleys, were slowly disappearing, he feared the city’s traditional Chinese characters and Cantonese ...