Who cares about penmanship if we’re typing everything and reading words on a screen? But then again, handwriting is a fascinating window into human cognitive activity. Sure, graphology is a murky ...

Graphic designer Applied Design Works has collaborated with the nonprofit organisation Braille Institute to develop a "hyperlegible typeface" for the visually impaired community. The font family, ...

One of the major traps, when talking about type, is mixing up fonts with typefaces or treating them as synonymous. Many a typographic expert has haughtily corrected a beginner for mistakenly using the ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Nate Bek on Feb 28, 2023 at 10:42 am ...

Few typefaces have achieved household name status. Times New Roman? Sure. Comic Sans? Maybe. Helvetica—definitely. So when it came to updating the famed sans-serif developed by Swiss designer Max ...

The world's most beloved typeface has been dumped. After two rocky years as Apple's typographical identity, Helvetica Neue is being replaced by a bespoke font, San Francisco, as the default font on ...

Not until he was a 22-year-old university student did Daniel Britton finish reading a book. He is not lazy or a slow learner, as prior teachers had believed. He is dyslexic. The labels placed on ...

Volvo’s latest automotive safety feature uses a specially designed infotainment screen font to improve legibility and reduce driver distraction.

In 2022, Abhay Parasnis, the former CTO of Adobe, founded Typeface, a generative AI startup focused on enterprise use cases. With it, he hoped to leverage generative AI — which at the time was just ...

Kellogg’s has one of the most iconic logos in consumer goods. Now, for the first time, that logo is also a custom typeface. The move to expand the logo into a proprietary typeface follows the Kellogg ...

Microsoft wants to make it easier for marketers to build campaigns and it's integrating with technology from generative AI startup Typeface to get it done. Today Microsoft and Typeface announced an ...