Thumbing through his local Swedish newspaper, Göteborg resident Mattias Akerberg found himself troubled by a full-page advertisement for Ikea. It wasn’t that the Grevbäck bookcases looked any less ...

The typeface Verdana was released in 1996 as an easy-to-read font for Websites, and in the intervening years, it has been used and misused in just about every imaginable way. For example, the Swedish ...

Not so long ago, in an ungainly and annoying queue at a hangar on the outskirts of town, the talk was all about great-value scented tealights. Today, the conversation has switched to fonts, and there ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Simon Garfield explores the peculiar history of typefaces in his new book, Just My Type: A Book About Fonts, ...

“Georgia and Verdana represented major milestones in the 1990s because they worked so well on screen and were among the first Web-safe fonts,” said Allan Haley, director of words and letters at ...

When Microsoft approached acclaimed typographer Matthew Carter to develop fonts explicitly for computer screens in the 1990s, Carter demurred. “My first reaction was, ‘I don’t want to do this,'” he ...

So, I'm just exploring options here...<BR>has anyone experianced a weird line-height thing with verdana font, that causes on some lines for line-height to be different then what is ...

Research recently conducted by the Matsec Support Unit on the ease with which students sitting for examinations can read different typefaces, and whether students with dyslexia have different ...

Following an overwhelming response to the Magazine's recent feature on the 50th birthday of the ubiquitous Helvetica typeface, this week sees readers picking their favourite fonts. Whether its Comic ...

Monotype Imaging Holdings has released the Georgia Pro and Verdana Pro typeface families, available from Fonts.com. Originally designed by Matthew Carter 15 years ago and adopted by every major ...