One of the major traps, when talking about type, is mixing up fonts with typefaces or treating them as synonymous. Many a typographic expert has haughtily corrected a beginner for mistakenly using the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Pablo Lagarto via Adobe Stock Typography is much more than just choosing a font – it ...

What constitutes a flawed typeface? For this article it is defined as a typeface that is perfectly fine — except for one nagging aspect, usually a single character. A flawed typeface is one that ...

Are you an Arial person? A Times New Roman? A Garamond? A Lucida Handwriting? So much of our communication is expressed in text these days that people become deeply attached to the typeface they use ...

Parts of this article come from an excerpt of Just My Type by Simon Garfield. Published by arrangement with Gotham Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc ...

This is the second in a series of posts analyzing and celebrating typefaces. These posts were originally published by HiLobrow. It was square, squat, and inherently cute. It was friendly. It was easy ...