Font families can sell for hundreds of dollars. Gotham, a popular typeface used by President Barack Obama’s campaign and many others, costs nearly $1,000 to license a complete set of 66 different ...

Wim Crouwel's iconic typography – seen on posters, postage stamps, exhibition catalogues and telephone directories – sums up Dutch design and perhaps even the Netherlands itself. Crouwel's rational, ...

Amsterdam designer Monique Goossens has made a typeface with strands of human hair. Goossens' Hair Typography is crafted by arranging bunches of hairs into the shapes of single letters. Each character ...

RIT’s visual communication design MFA program is making its mark on the upcoming second edition of Mastering Type, hailed as a crucial guide to typography for print and web design. Three students, ...

The School of Design at Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth hosted D’KODE Summit 2026 on March 23–24, bringing designers, academicians, industry experts, and students together. Focused on typography, the event ...

When Letterform Archive opened in 2015, it became an immediate destination for lovers of typography and letters — it’s already had over 5,000 visitors from 30 countries. They come for letter-blocks, ...

Design studio Pentagram has created a new series of prints based on the 2020 Liberty rebrand, to be added to the luxury store’s archive of patterns The Liberty Print Archive is a treasure trove of ...

Balance Getting the balance right of a typeface will help legibility. Contrast For example, bright text against a dark backdrop or vibrant against a pale background. Contrast can draw attention to a ...

The historic individuality of Detroit's faded neighborhoods is preserved in characters, literally — in the fonts lining the vintage signs and hand-painted advertisements of small businesses. That is, ...