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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Pablo Lagarto via Adobe Stock Typography is much more than just choosing a font – it ...

What constitutes a flawed typeface? For this article it is defined as a typeface that is perfectly fine — except for one nagging aspect, usually a single character. A flawed typeface is one that ...

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 ...

There’s an interesting cultural observation to be made as a writer based in Europe, that we like our sans-serif fonts, while ...