This week, while Harper Lee is thrust back into the spotlight because of her much-anticipated sophomore novel Go Set a Watchman, someone else, heretofore unrelated to the book, is experiencing a ...

Back in the late 1970s, computer scientists working on the first laser printer discovered they had a problem: how do you scale a digital font without making it look terrible at low resolutions? You ...

Lato has been one of the most consistently popular stars of the Google Fonts library for the last six years. What is the secret behind its success? And how was a font that ended up being used on ...

There are certain celebrity fonts that get so much play, they’re instantly recognizable. (Looking at you, Helvetica, Comic Sans, and Times New Roman.) But it can be frustrating to sleuth the true ...

When Roy Chan Ching-hin noticed how Hong Kong staples, namely bamboo theatres and dim sum trolleys, were slowly disappearing, he feared the city’s traditional Chinese characters and Cantonese ...

Older arcade games such as ' Space Invaders ' and ' Pac-Man ' used bitmap fonts expressed on an 8x8 grid to save space. A movie has been released to explain how the fonts for arcade games were ...