He stated, “Out of thousands of typefaces, all we need are a few basic ones, and trash the rest.” Left: A moving announcement set in Cooper Black by Fred S. Bertsch & Oswald Cooper in 1921.

In addition to all sorts of fascinating details about the behavior of travelers, the story includes this fascinating nugget: Just three typefaces are used in the wayfinding signage for 75 percent ...

Display typefaces, on the other hand, are less about legibility (though it is still important), and more about personality, character and distinctiveness. They’re best for logos, ...

But these collection of letters aren’t your typical typefaces, they’re really small puzzles themselves. During the past decade, father-son duo Erik and Martin Demaine, both mathematicians at ...

Typeface design has a western-normativity problem: for years, most Arabic typefaces have been designed by Latin-language typographers. But Arabic is built differently than Latin—its letters can ...