Over the past few years, I kept bumping into something called Hershey fonts. After digging around, I found a 1967 government report by a fellow named Dr. Allen Vincent Hershey. Back in the 1960s, he ...

Typography has always played a central role in visual culture. From classic calligraphy to modern digital lettering, fonts shape how messages are perceived, remembered, and emotionally felt. As ...

FontLab has released Fontographer 5, a new version of its font editing application. This version of the software—which lets you create, customize, fine-tune, fix, and convert fonts to different ...

Comics conjecture tends to revolve around story and illustration, with journalists and fans giving borderline-exclusive attention to those two trades while neglecting the more subtle elements of the ...

Even under the best of circumstances, font management is complicated. Fortunately for creatives, the formerly crippling font problems in Mac OS X have mostly been ironed out by the current crop of ...