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 ...

Reading glasses or not, some fonts can be very hard to read. When it comes to readability of text, different attributes like the style, color and size make the design more or less visible. To ...

Designers have been bemoaning the state of typography in the browser since the dawn of the web. However, CSS 3 and the @font-face rule go a long way toward improving your font options. Throw in tools ...

The Garamond font has been around for centuries. The original typeface was created in the 1500s by French engraver Claude Garamond. It is described as an "old-style serif" font, inspired by Roman ...

So, hey, remember when Bloomberg Business kindly let us know that we were all using the wrong font on our resumes? Well, they're back again with some more helpful typographic information, and this ...

After the somewhat infamous Snapchat update, everyone on social media knows at least one person who ditched the app in a panicked state of fury (looking at you, mom). But in the last few months, ...

Twitter recently got a makeover, and you might have noticed something looks pretty different as you scroll. As you look closer at the tweets, you’ll probably notice a change in the font — and you are ...

There are a number of people in the world who are dyslexic. Ultimately, scientists think that this condition affects some 10% of the population. Some studies have suggested that it affects 17% of ...

Political candidates spend millions of dollars honing their messages, paying close attention to language and tone, but that work may be for naught if they’re using the wrong typeface. Fonts and text ...

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From the classic Calibri to the quirky Wingdings, computer users have over half a million fonts to choose from. Now, a study has revealed what your font choice says about you. Experts from Adobe asked ...