Type Design

A Question of Character: Finding What You Need in Your Fonts, Part 2

Everything you wanted to know about Unicode but didn’t know whom to ask. Bonus: A cheat sheet for instantly creating such characters as fractions; up and down arrows; and open and filled circles and squares.

New Type Suite Is a Study in Contrasts

ITC Chino is a newly released suite of 12 designs that range from fanciful, script-like display fonts, to typefaces with a decidedly judicious demeanor.

Type Luminaries Speak on PRI

Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones, Matthew Carter, and Tracy Honn discuss typefaces past and present in a recent episode of "To the Best of Our Knowledge." Thanks to the Internet, you can listen to it right now!

New Fonts from Independent Foundries

These two new typefaces are thoughtfully designed. Premiéra was created with small sizes in mind; Ingeborg is a Modern face that's readable at any size.

TypeTalk: Find Figure Styles in OpenType Fonts

To designers' delight, many typefaces include several kinds of numbers: oldstyle, lining, tabular, and proportional. But how do you discover which fonts have which styles?

Mrs Eaves Gets a Hubby

Type foundry Émigré has released the typefaces Mr Eaves Sans and Mr Eaves Modern.

19 Top Combos of the 19 Top Typefaces

Would you pair Helvetica with Garamond? What about Minion with Gill Sans or FF Din with Baskerville? Check out the list and let us know what you think!

TypeTalk: Times Roman vs Times New Roman

What's old, what's new, and what's what when you're talking about Times?

New Typeface Family Well-Suited to Newspapers, Periodicals

Monotype Library's Ysobel Pro typeface suite has the soft, inviting letter shapes of Century Schoolbook but contrasts these with more angular serifs.

P22 Gets Spooky

This chilling new font is evocative of the type in horror films and posters.

Greek Font Inspired by Roman Column

Monumenta Pro is a serif titling face available as Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek alphabets. It comes with interesting alternates for each language.

Antique Gothic Grotesque: Deciphering the Typeface Name Game

The vocabulary of type is mysterious at best, and nowhere is this more true than in how typefaces are labeled. Yet knowing how typefaces are named and categorized has very practical benefits.

Les Kerning Disses Mrs Eaves

Extensis plays on sibling rivalry in a new series of videos promoting its Suitcase Fusion 2 font-management software. It's all fun and games until someone falls asleep.

Enjoy the Daily Drop Cap

You can use these drop caps online for free as long as you follow their Creative Commons license guidelines.

Scanning Around With Gene: Really, Really Deep Type

Before there were instant drop shadows everywhere, type that appeared to be three-dimensional looked like it was drawn by an architect or draftsman.

Alphabet Soup: A Tasty Font Foundry

FontShop has added some delicious typefaces from Michael Doret's font foundry, Alphabet Soup.

Free For All: Harvest These Freebies

Summer has officially given way to fall, and in the northern hemisphere, that means it's harvest time. Fill your basket with this delectable sampling of free tools, fonts, and services.

New Typographical and Illustrative Treasures from House Industries

House Industries introduces 27 hand-printed serigraphs, photo-lettering alphabet blocks, four new tees, and a new one-liner catalog.

New Typeface “More Steve McQueen than Steven Seagal”

Tungsten is a flat-sided sans serif family that's muscular and persuasive without sacrificing wit, versatility, or style.

Play the Game "Cheese or Font"

This simple game shows you one word at a time. You must decide whether the word is the name of a cheese, or of a font. Try it and find out how well you know your typeface names!