The phrase to the left can be read two ways: right side up and upside down. It’s called an ambigram, and it’s the hottest trend in typography since Helvetica. This one was created by ...

Steve Jobs' ex-Trappist monk calligraphy teacher put him on the ... about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture.” ...

When designing the first Macintosh computer, Steve Jobs remembered his calligraphy course at Reed College and built it all into the Mac. "It was the first computer with beautiful typography," said ...

“Calligraphy was about the most over-enrolled ... Thomas Phinney, a senior product manager for fonts and typography with Extensis, says Jobs’ death is the change of an era.

“So much of calligraphy is about movement and rhythm ... learning from the old letterforms that remain the base for new fonts, logos, and applications that take the scrolls off the page and ...

No one’s wedding will ever be exactly like yours. The fonts people choose are a reflection of them. With calligraphy, it’s about as unique as you can get.

Jobs sat in on Palladino’s calligraphy class at Portland’s ... “It was the first computer with beautiful typography,” Jobs said. “If I had never dropped in on that single course ...

He credits this experience with formulating his taste for beautiful typography, which he later applied to Apple computers. To think of a technology wizard praising calligraphy at first seems ...

Calligraphist Jamshed Qaiser said his work is based on abstraction and reflection on traditional calligraphy. According to Jamshed, he has taken inspiration from Iranian Calligraphic fonts as well ...