Decimated by manufacturing losses, some smaller cities are turning for help to an unlikely group of people: typeface designers. Can new fonts really breathe life into the postindustrial city? The ...

New York City–based Hoefler & Co., headed by award-winning type designer Jonathan Hoefler, has designed typefaces for magazines such as Rolling Stone and Sports Illustrated, and its Hoefler Text ...

Among the thousands of features on your smartphone, one you’ve probably never thought about is which fonts it uses. Typography is involved in almost everything we do on our devices — the emails we ...

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Akira Kobayashi’s tenure as type director at Linotype. Born in Tokyo in 1960, he studied graphic design at Musashino Art University. Kobayashi began his career ...

The wrong styling can ruin a perfectly good message. That’s why UVA leans on the typeface used in the first printed edition ...

Pioneering British graphic designer Neville Brody created Coca-Cola's first bespoke font in its 130-year history earlier this year. Using the brand's archive Brody developed a typeface that aims to ...

Inspired by a rich history of women in crafting spaces, this graphic designer merges thoughtful typeface design with ...

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