The new letters were created in Adobe Illustrator and made to work together in Fontlab. Every type designer has a favorite character, and Diesel says he often judges a font by its "g." Silent Film ...

Specifically, Newcomer says that one of the National Guard documents touted by CBS used a letter-font size of 11.5 – a size that wasn’t available on office typewriters in the early 1970s.

“The signals that we can send are often quite small, like the symmetry of round shapes in the letter B,” says Tobias Frere-Jones, a designer whose work includes the font used by the 2008 Obama ...

A designer who has dyslexia has created a font to help dyslexic readers navigate text, designing letters in a way that avoids confusion and adds clarity. And in England, two researchers are ...

The Website lets you tweak any letters that don’t look right, and then it generates a font for you. You can even include your signature as one of the characters. If you want more control ...

You can include variants, so you have multiple letters for a single character, and the font will randomly assign different variants when you type, creating a more hand-drawn effect. It’s helpful ...

The repetition of certain letters or words within a paragraph can set up a playful rhythm while the bold weights of the font can bring in the percussive bass, and so on. This, of course ...

Brands know that well-chosen fonts can do much to convey the style of a timepiece. Study the face of a watch and you’re likely to notice something other than the time: The typography used to ...