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The State Department has reversed a Biden-era font change that aimed to make its paperwork more accessible to readers with disabilities. Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed diplomats around the ...

If there’s a topic that’s bound to get designers riled up into a fiery debate, it’s the issue of choosing the best font for reading to use on the screen. For most of the web’s life, designers haven’t ...

One of the major traps, when talking about type, is mixing up fonts with typefaces or treating them as synonymous. Many a typographic expert has haughtily corrected a beginner for mistakenly using the ...

Don't let the jungle of typeface choices get you down … here’s an easy guide! (image via Inspiration Labs) (click for a larger version) This chart may be all you need to decide what font, I mean ...

Volvo’s latest automotive safety feature uses a specially designed infotainment screen font to improve legibility and reduce driver distraction.

Wu Di and Wang Lvyun of Lung Tin look at what options are available to prevent copying of fonts and typefaces in China Choosing the right typeface is often the key to a great logo design, graphic or ...

Parts of this article come from an excerpt of Just My Type by Simon Garfield. Published by arrangement with Gotham Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc ...