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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Garfield’s new book tracks the history of Comic Sans, from its kitschy speech-bubble origins to design-school anathema, and along ...

Printed type is no mere neutral conveyor of ideas but an artistic medium in its own right, with psychological, social, and even sexual overtones, according to this lively romp through the history of ...

A short, educational animation about the history of fonts and typography. In a paper cutout stop-motion style, it begins with Gutenberg's creation of the first typeface, travels through the ...

Over the past few years, I kept bumping into something called Hershey fonts. After digging around, I found a 1967 government report by a fellow named Dr. Allen Vincent Hershey. Back in the 1960s, he ...

The Paris Commune is known for many things, but typography isn’t one of them. Despite the many posters, tracts, and the extensive archive of a daily newspaper that remain, these printed documents do ...