One of the major traps, when talking about type, is mixing up fonts with typefaces or treating them as synonymous. Many a typographic expert has haughtily corrected a beginner for mistakenly using the ...

The Garamond font has been around for centuries. The original typeface was created in the 1500s by French engraver Claude Garamond. It is described as an "old-style serif" font, inspired by Roman ...

You make font choices every day. You pick type designs each time you use a word processor, read an e-book, send an email, prepare a presentation, craft a wedding invite and make an Instagram story. It ...

What did Comic Sans ever do to us? The font was one of the typefaces preloaded onto Windows 95—where it stuck out like a sore thumb alongside more stately options like Arial and Times New Roman—and as ...

It’s safe to assume that most people have no idea that fonts, like music or movies, are protected by intellectual property laws, they usually come with a hefty price tag, and they are uncommonly ...

Yesterday, Apple unveiled its first wearable: a small smartwatch with a 1.5-inch display that caught the eyes of font buffs because it has a new custom typeface. Forget the watch, that typeface might ...

What is it about Instagram that so deeply appeals to Millennials? I mean, there are a lot of reasons, of course, but let's be real: The design of Instagram has, from the beginning, played a big role ...