The letters you see on your screen are not as they seem. Contrast: In type design, this refers to “one of typography’s greatest paradoxes: that lines appear thicker when oriented horizontally than ...

English typography, by contrast, was largely shaped by the printing press in the West, while Arabic letterforms evolved through lithography and scribal practices. The complexity and fluidity of Arabic ...

Apple’s iPhone kick-started an app economy that changed the look of user interfaces and graphic design. Might the Vision Pro and spatial computing do something similar? At least when it comes to type ...

Tré Seals plans to ease the world out of its Helvetica obsession one font at a time. After becoming frustrated by the monotony of the graphic design industry, he started his own foundry, Vocal Type, ...

Tre Seals specializes in bold type. The 28-year-old founder of Washington, D.C., font foundry VocalType finds inspiration in historical protest signs, social-change graphics, and Black history. His ...

Shaqa Bovand is a type designer who works at F37 Foundry. Born and raised in Iran, she grew up surrounded by calligraphy – from traditional wall signs to the use of calligraphy in architecture and the ...