Typographic changes The font or typeface used for a block of text can have a subtle – or unsubtle – influence on the reader. (Courtesy: iStock/ghornephoto) How could such a radical and transparent ...

My colleague and I have been batting this question around ever since we created what we thought was a simple assignment for our Typography students. It reads: Replace all photos on the front page 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.

Orbis Typographicus is the result of a decade of collaboration between friends in the 1970s: the world-famous typographer Hermann Zapf and an accomplished amateur printer, Philip L. Metzger. They ...