Even when they’re scrawling their names on checks, most type designers put a great amount of care into their letters. No one has done more to kill off handwriting than typographers. The fonts and ...

A wistful feeling I can’t quite place stirs in me at the arrival of fall: the shortening days bring thoughts of the open road, a desire to wander. The words of Isabelle Eberhardt are fitting. “Now, ...

Typeface and lettering artists not only enjoy drawing certain letters more than others, they also, it turns out, enjoy discussing their predilections. We asked 15 type, lettering, and calligraphic ...

Bertram A. "Bert" Powers, 84, the president of the old typographers union in New York who led his guild through a grinding 114-day strike in 1962-63 over the transition to automated typesetting, died ...