Typography

TypeTalk: Supersize My Font Families, Please!

Gone are the days when font choices were regular, italic, and bold. Today you can use super families of fonts that contain variations in width, weight, style, and more. Here are some tips for using super families.

Fonts on Friday: Influenced by the '70s

Bookmania and Herbie

Fonts on Friday: Crafty Handmade Fonts

Knit, Sown, Grown, Bent, and more!

Type How-To: A River Runs Through It

Rivers are eye-catching cracks in text formed by meandering trails of word spaces running from one line to the next. Here’s why they happen, how to avoid them, and how to fix them.

Font Bureau's Readability Series Goes Retail

Previously only available to private clients, now available to public

Don Quixote, Wilco, Illustrator, Veer — and You

T-shirt design contest with all of the above will benefit non-profit.

Fonts on Friday: Food Fonts

It's the real thing: cookies, chocolate, candy, pasta, and soup!

TypeTalk: Copy Editing and Proofreading

Copyediting and proofreading are important to the integrity of the production of any publishing project, yet the two are often confused. What's the difference between copy editing and proofreading? What does each task entail? And why do they matter?

Fonts on Friday: Nothing Fancy

Regular and Prosto

InDesign Font Plug-in Lets You Try Before You Buy

FontGazer connects to Fonts.com database of 150,000+ fonts

The State of E-book Typography

Whether on Kindle, iPad, Nook, or other LCD display, type suffers compared to print. So is good typography even possible for today’s electronic devices? From the standpoint of the craft’s two underlying principles — legibility and readability — the answer is "no."

The "Original" Helvetica

Font Bureau releases Neue Haas Grotesk

Case Study: Designing a New Logo

What goes into developing a new typographic logo? Where do you start? How do you know what works — and what doesn't? Follow along as the company Extensis refreshes its branding with a new logotype.

Scanning Around With Gene: How Does Your Garden Grow?

At the turn of the 19th century, gardening was a very popular past time, as seen through these seed catalogs from the period. Plus, they were great examples of the type and lithography used at the time.

A Font "Dating" Game

Test your skills as a type matchmaker.

Fonts on Friday: Three indie typefaces to add to your collection

Abraham Lincoln, L.C. Smith, and Malleable Grotesque

Fonts on Friday: Three Indie Typefaces to Add to Your Collection

Abraham Lincoln, L.C. Smith, and Malleable Grotesque

Scanning Around With Gene: Typographic Treasure from the Bottom of the Box

There they were, at the bottom of a poorly marked box: a series of American Printer magazines from 1946, complete with a five-part primer on how to set good type. In this typographic treasure trove, we learn that many lessons are timeless.

"100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design"

New book chronicles design as bursts of creative thinking

TypeTalk: Investigating Insouciant

On the surface, James Montalbano's Insouciant font is a charming, sprightly typeface that belies the technical rigor required to create it. Here Montalbano explains how this 10-weight family came to be and why upright script faces are challenging to design.