Tré Seals plans to ease the world out of its Helvetica obsession one font at a time. After becoming frustrated by the monotony of the graphic design industry, he started his own foundry, Vocal Type, ...

English typography, by contrast, was largely shaped by the printing press in the West, while Arabic letterforms evolved ...

Distinguished type designer and calligrapher Robert Slimbach is the 2018 recipient of the Frederic W. Goudy Award, given to outstanding practitioners in type design and its related fields. Presented ...

Some branding projects are a blank slate—a system you can build from the ground up with a cohesive image. Upon commission, the project for rebranding Syracuse University, tasked to Pentagram partner ...

Adrian Frutiger, the legendary type designer who created Univers, Avenir, and the eponymous Frutiger typeface, died on Saturday at the age of 87. Frutiger–along with the late Hermann Zapf, who died ...

New York City–based Hoefler & Co., headed by award-winning type designer Jonathan Hoefler, has designed typefaces for magazines such as Rolling Stone and Sports Illustrated, and its Hoefler Text ...

Richard Kindersley, who has died aged 86, was a typeface designer, letterer and sculptor whose work, spanning more than six ...

Fonts may live in our computers, but every outline of every letter, number, and symbol in a typeface is originally crafted by human hand. In the 1800s this happened via a copper plate engraving ...

Typeface design has a western-normativity problem: for years, most Arabic typefaces have been designed by Latin-language typographers. But Arabic is built differently than Latin—its letters can have ...