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We all know words have power – but the fonts those words are written in can have just as much. Font psychology is the study ...
Simon Garfield's Just My Type, published in England by the same people who brought us Eats, Shoots & Leaves, hopes to do for type fonts what Lynne Truss' surprise best-seller did for commas. For ...
The Problem With Fonts. For most people, the words font and typeface are interchangeable, and that’s mostly okay. But to understand variable fonts, we need to get into the weeds a little bit. We ...
First, font designs are protectable by design patents–in fact, the very first U.S. design patent, issued in 1842, covered a typeface designed by George Bruce.
Choose a category, or type a font name in the Search box, or just page down through the thousands of pages. Choose a typeface, then click the Download button. 2.
TietoEVRY has developed The Polite Type, an open-source font that blurs curse words, racial epithets and rewrites hate speech with kinder terms to highlight the cyberbullying crisis.
Type something as innocent as “San Diego,” and the strings of letters get buried beneath a black censor box. Seen, a font from designer Emil Kozole, recognizes NSA spook words and blacks them out.
A computer scientist at NYU fuses type design and programming skills to create a font that stays readable even at 5 pixels high. Ken Perlin, computer scientist and director of NYU’s Games for ...