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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 ...

Fonts are something we always see in our daily lives. This applies not only to text on the internet, but also to road signs, store signboards, and text designs on shirts. While font design is often ...

Pity Comic Sans, the font that people love to hate. Developed by Vincent Connare in the mid-1990s, Comic Sans is what author SIMON GARFIELD describes as “type that has gone wrong” in his book “JUST MY ...

Printed type is no mere neutral conveyor of ideas but an artistic medium in its own right, with psychological, social, and even sexual overtones, according to this lively romp through the history of ...

Parts of this article come from an excerpt of Just My Type by Simon Garfield. Published by arrangement with Gotham Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc ...

Words portray ideas, while fonts – the spirit of the times. In their book 'Paneuropa, Kometa, Hel' (Pan-Europa, Comet, Helium), Agata Szydłowska and Marian Misiak covered the incredible stories of ...

A furor erupts when Ikea changes its official typeface. Here are five other controversial fonts, involving Nazis, incest, and comic books. Maybe all the hubbub strikes you as weird, but fonts have ...

When was the last time you handwrote something? It probably wasn't today, and it was probably a phone number or a grocery list (even though there's an app for that). Most of our written communication ...