Reading glasses or not, some fonts can be very hard to read. When it comes to readability of text, different attributes like the style, color and size make the design more or less visible. To ...

The U.S. State Department changed its official font from the reader-friendly Calibri back to Times New Roman. Michel Martin speaks with an accessibility design expert about why fonts matter.

There’s an interesting cultural observation to be made as a writer based in Europe, that we like our sans-serif fonts, while our American friends seem to prefer a font with a serif.

Let’s face it: we’re all font nerds now. Every computer application, from mundane Microsoft Word to the most souped-up version of Photoshop, provides hundreds of typographic options. So why do they ...

Whenever you design, you can combine graphics, font, color, and other elements. The font combinations you use will impact your design. No matter how well you use the other elements, if your font ...

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 ...

London designers Dalton Maag have created a font for mobile phone brand Nokia to work in any language. Called Nokia Pure, it's been designed to accommodate languages using Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, ...

The custom-made Goldman Sans is ‘neutral, with a wink’ — or boring and derivative, according to fontheads. By Josh Wagner and Joel Stein There are so few ways to express yourself when you’re Goldman ...

Pentiment plays out on the pages of one of those manuscripts. Its murdery mystery story is set in Bavaria, pulling inspiration for the world from handwritten late-medieval manuscripts to early ...