I can still see my mother’s handwriting. She honed it as a Catholic schoolgirl, and it had rhythm and spark. Handwriting is remarkable for its variety. A single alphabet is unconsciously executed in ...

When I was in high school, about a hundred years ago, teachers used to assign term papers by page count — a three-page paper, a five-page paper and so on — typewritten and double-spaced, of course. In ...

Amazon this morning announced a new version of its Kindle Paperwhite e-reader, with a higher-resolution screen and a new font, called “Bookerly” — part of a broader effort by the company to improve ...

Perhaps more than any other area of design, the advancement of typography has been tied to the available technology: the physicality of punchcutting replaced by the ephemeral vector outlines of ...

Shelley Jofre investigates the importance of fonts, with a little help from a titan of typography, Matthew Carter. BBC Archive: Originally broadcast 3 March 2005. 2005: The secret world of fonts.

2005: The secret world of fonts Shelley Jofre investigates the importance of fonts, with a little help from a titan of typography, Matthew Carter. BBC Archive: Originally broadcast 3 March 2005.