It's easy to see why web designers would want free, high-quality fonts. But why would an independent type designer open source their work? Just as in open source software, the reasons vary.

Steve Matteson has designed some of the most ubiquitous typefaces in the world, and engineered the original core fonts for Microsoft, adapting Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier, which you’ve ...

A designer who has dyslexia has created a font to help dyslexic readers navigate text, designing letters in a way that avoids confusion and adds clarity. And in England, two researchers are ...

The new letters were created in Adobe Illustrator and made to work together in Fontlab. Every type designer has a favorite character, and Diesel says he often judges a font by its "g." Silent Film ...

“The signals that we can send are often quite small, like the symmetry of round shapes in the letter B,” says Tobias Frere-Jones, a designer whose work includes the font used by the 2008 Obama ...

The five capital letters are 96 years old. They’re embossed on terra cotta panels mortared into brick on the north face of the historic Bemis building in Sodo, and they’re beautiful.

The design of the lettering is based on the ... who gave her name to the Sloan font. These letters are the basis of the universal chart for testing visual sense, also known as the Logmar chart.

“One font designer might start by roughly sketching out the entirety of the alphabet,” he said. “Others might start with a particular letter that they think is challenging.” “You think a ...