New York's Museum of Modern Art is celebrating 23 digital typefaces by admitting them into its collection. They are a great example of intelligent, problem-solving design.

The 1990s ushered in a radical new era for typography, as the rise of desktop publishing democratised font design and unleashed unprecedented creative experimentation. What emerged was a wild mix of ...

Founded in 1959, in the days before digital typography, Letraset was a company that manufactured physical sheets of typefaces and other artwork elements using the dry-transfer lettering method.

Four digital fonts with 16pt font size and 100% (default) line height. [Image: courtesy of the author] But getting used to the newfound freedoms took some time.

Digital Imaging with Photoshop Acquire a working knowledge of this software platform — the industry standard for print, webpages, animation, presentation, video production, and enhancement of ...

In today’s digital world, most words we read reach us via computer, television or smartphone. Even hardcover books are designed with the help of digital technology. Typographers have ...

Digital typography The first digital typeface—Digi Grotesk—was designed by Rudolf Hell in 1968. Early digital fonts were bitmaps, which resulted in less-than-ideal readability at small sizes.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum today announced the formal establishment of the Digital curatorial department, which will collect and care for born-digital work. This new collecting ...