Books
Looking Back on 100 Years of Typewriter Art
Along with vinyl records and vintage synthesizers, typewriters have made a nostalgia-fueled resurgence in the digital age.
Typography
Art
A Masterpiece by Which to Remember Type Designer Hermann Zapf
In his lifetime, German type designer Hermann Zapf created around 200 typefaces across the world's languages, from Arabic to Cherokee.
Art
Artists Redesign the Alphabet, One Letter Per Day, on the Front Page of a City Newspaper
Each edition of the Fitchburg, Massachusetts, newspaper this month has one of 26 typographers designing a letter from the alphabet, and writers contributing poetry and stories inspired by that letter.
Art
Recording the Fading Local Typography of Our Cities
One of the most overlooked design casualties of global homogenization is regional lettering.
Art
After Three Decades of Obscurity, Helvetica's Successor Reemerges
When Haas Unica was introduced in 1980, it was intended as an illustrious successor to the highly popular sans-serif Helvetica.
Art
In Chinese Characters, Designers Seek to Marry Text and Image
BEIJING — Senior designers from the Dutch design agency LAVA Céline Lamée and Johan Nijhoff explored the origins of visual communication by designing a new set of symbols.
Art
Writing with a 19th-Century Architectural Alphabet
In the 19th century, an Italian artist created an architectural alphabet in which letters are depicted as monumental structures.
Books
Typography in the Wild
In the same tradition as birdwatching manuals, a recently published book is targeted at turning even the most oblivious of urban wanderers into typography spotters.
Opinion
Homeless Fonts Are a Feel-Good Fail
In recent years, homeless people have been put to an impressively creative, and deeply problematic, range of uses: as wifi hot spots, as subjects for police training, as publicly minded art, and now, a new one — as typography.
Opinion
Homeless Fonts Are a Feel-Good Fail
In recent years, homeless people have been put to an impressively creative, and deeply problematic, range of uses: as wifi hot spots, as subjects for police training, as publicly minded art, and now, a new one — as typography.
Opinion
Comic Sans Gets a Makeover, and You Can Download It Free
Well, lovers of Comic Sans rejoice!
Art
Typography, the Video Game
The history of typography is long and rich, and now it's a video game. Type:Rider, created by Paris-based designer Théo Le Du Fuentes with Cosmografik, starts with cuneiform and proceeds through moveable type all the way to modern fonts like the loathed Comic Sans.