English typography, by contrast, was largely shaped by the printing press in the West, while Arabic letterforms evolved ...

Rochester Institute of Technology’s Cary Graphic Arts Collection opened a new exhibition to celebrate the 100 th birthdays of renowned German type designers and calligraphers Hermann Zapf and Gudrun ...

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Tré Seals plans to ease the world out of its Helvetica obsession one font at a time. After becoming frustrated by the monotony of the graphic design industry, he started his own foundry, Vocal Type, ...

Cheerily nuzzled above the “7” key like a pear-shaped pill bug, the ampersand is perhaps the most intriguing character on the keyboard. While all letters and punctuation marks look similar enough in ...

Type designers Mark Jamra and Neil Patel began a project in 2014 intended to create more typographic options and increase literacy for African scripts. In their research and community outreach ...