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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...

When most of us consider video game visuals, we might think of graphics — how realistically an alien world, race track or war zone can be replicated. We might not immediately think of fonts. But a new ...

Decimated by manufacturing losses, some smaller cities are turning for help to an unlikely group of people: typeface designers. Can new fonts really breathe life into the postindustrial city? The ...

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, ...

Barcelona graphic design company Lo Siento has created a set of sculptural letters that can be read from all sides (+ movie). The studio had been working on several projects relating to architecture ...