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 ...

Carter teamed up with Tom Rickner of Monotype Imaging, who provided technical support on the initial release of Georgia and Verdana in 1996 as fonts for Microsoft’s “Core fonts for the Web” pack. The ...

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, ...

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 ...

A research funded by computer giant Microsoft has revealed that Verdana is the best font for users to read text even as small a size as 10 without any discomfort. A research funded by computer giant ...

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 ...