If you downloaded the latest version of Internet Explorer, you may have noticed that your fonts now look different. In fact, the default setting for font display is now ‘cleartype’. Fonts look smoother and not as crisp, as this is supposed to bring more clarity to your text on the screen and make the fonts that [...]

No, you’re not dreaming… Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of the Helvetica typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Helvetica Film | Helvetica Font

With the upcoming release of Microsoft’s Vista, it’s exciting for all font lovers to know there’s a bunch of new fonts that will be bundled with the software.The Microsoft collection includes two serif, three sans serif, and a monospaced face for use in programming environments. They are intended to be text typefaces as opposed to [...]

So for those of you who wonder what that font is, here’s the answer….. It’s called Catull, and you can purchase it here: Catull Font

Legendary designer Adrian Frutiger has received the prestigious 2006 Typography Award from The Society for Typographic Aficionados (SOTA). The award, presented by Allan Haley, Chairman of the Board of Directors at SOTA, recognizes Frutiger’s artistic contribution in designing many of the best-known typefaces of the 20th century. These include OCR-B, the eponymous Frutiger and Univers. [...]

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So you downloaded thousands of fonts, but you still don’t get that look you’re after. At some point, many designers decide to leave their mark in the world and make their own fonts.Here are some tutorials that you can follow to help in the process. Chank’s Font Making Tutorial | My First Font

You don’t often see CSS and typography used in the same sentence, and for good reason. Traditional typography is a very subtle and beautiful form of design, with thousands of variations and choices. Unfortunately, with CSS that’s not quite the case. Don’t lose hope just yet, though. CSS can do more than you might think. [...]

One of the most popular font categories on this website is Graffiti Fonts, but what exactly is a graffiti? The word Graffiti is actually the plural of Graffito which means a drawing or inscription made on a wall or other surface, usually meant to be seen by the public. Other than simply showing off the [...]

A bitmap font is one that stores each glyph as an array of pixels (that is, a bitmap). It is less commonly known as a raster font. Bitmap fonts look best at their native pixel size. At non-native sizes, many text rendering systems perform nearest-neighbor resampling, introducing ugly jagged edges. More advanced systems perform anti-aliasing [...]