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Tech
Google’s latest Roboto variant is a font customizable to its core
Mitchell Clark
May 6, 2022
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Design
Design
Google’s new retro-style font brings back serifs for more comfortable reading
Chaim Gartenberg
Feb 18, 2022
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Tech
Tech
The BBC is rolling out a new font designed for mobile screens
Andrew Liptak
Aug 6, 2017
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Design
Design
Samsung developed its own font called SamsungOne
Chaim Gartenberg
Jul 25, 2016
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Design
Design
London's public transportation system is getting a new screen-friendly typeface
Lizzie Plaugic
Jun 15, 2016
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Design
Design
DC Comics went old-school for its new logo
Kwame Opam
May 17, 2016
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Google
Google
Google's best logo has no Google in it
Vlad Savov
Dec 9, 2015
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Apple
Apple
Amazon improves typeface and layout on Kindle for iPhone
Amar Toor
May 28, 2015
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Google
Google
Google's Roboto font for Android and Chrome is now open source
Nathan Ingraham
May 26, 2015
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Design
Design
A new font based on Einstein's handwriting is being developed
Kwame Opam
May 5, 2015
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Design
Design
A new typeface, designed by algorithms instead of by hand
Lizzie Plaugic
Jan 22, 2015
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Design
Design
Sony asked the public to redesign its logo in 1981. It didn't work out
Dante D'Orazio
Nov 22, 2014
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Report
Report
The Bible's a mess, but a designer is fixing it
Aaron Souppouris
Jul 22, 2014
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Design
Design
This typeface is crowdsourced from thousands of handwritten characters
Chris Ziegler
Jun 14, 2014
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TL;DR
TL;DR
The vicious battle that tore the greatest font design duo apart
Jacob Kastrenakes
Jun 5, 2014
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Gaming
Gaming
Inside the graphic design of 'Watch Dogs'
Dante D'Orazio
Jun 1, 2014
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Gaming
Gaming
New logo puts the dragon in 'Dungeons & Dragons'
Jacob Kastrenakes
May 26, 2014
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TL;DR
TL;DR
The ugly side of making beautiful fonts
Vlad Savov
Apr 9, 2014
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Design
Design
Meet the illegitimate child of Comic Sans
Jacob Kastrenakes
Apr 7, 2014
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Watch This
Watch This
Watch the unseen artistry of road sign painters
Aaron Souppouris
Apr 1, 2014
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TL;DR
TL;DR
No, simply using a different typeface won't save the government over $400 million
Valentina Palladino
Mar 31, 2014
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Design
Design
Typography on England's World Cup uniform is steeped in Depeche Mode
Aaron Souppouris
Mar 31, 2014
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Watch This
Watch This
Watch this: iconic typeface designers reveal the secrets of their craft
Valentina Palladino
Mar 12, 2014
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Concepts
Concepts
These glasses let you see the world through your favorite typeface
Valentina Palladino
Jan 20, 2014
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Design
Design
Hoefler and Frere-Jones set for $20 million court battle over share in iconic type foundry
Aaron Souppouris
Jan 17, 2014
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Smart Home
Smart Home
How original typography boosted the '80s horror boom
Aaron Souppouris
Aug 24, 2013
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Design
Design
Artists help the homeless with elegant typography
Aaron Souppouris
Aug 6, 2013
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Design
Design
How do you pronounce 'Helvetica'?
Vlad Savov
Aug 2, 2013
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TL;DR
TL;DR
The long, strange life of the 'Star Wars' logo
Adi Robertson
May 31, 2013
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Apps
Apps
Instagram filters out the noise with redesigned logo
Amar Toor
May 6, 2013
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TL;DR
TL;DR
What happened to the awesome sitcom fonts of the '90s?
Aaron Souppouris
Apr 5, 2013
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TL;DR
TL;DR
A typographical study of history's most absurd record covers
Aaron Souppouris
Apr 3, 2013
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Web
Web
Learn the basics of typography with 'Type Fun01'
Amar Toor
Feb 2, 2013
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Microsoft
Microsoft
The curious case of Microsoft's Metro, a design language that cannot be spoken
Tom Warren
Oct 31, 2012
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Web
Web
Mozilla shares an in-depth look at the design philosophy behind Firefox OS
Nathan Ingraham
Sep 26, 2012
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TL;DR
TL;DR
Source Sans Pro: Adobe's first open source font family
Vlad Savov
Aug 3, 2012
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Features
Features
Good design is invisible: an interview with iA's Oliver Reichenstein
Sam Byford
Jul 24, 2012
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Science
Science
CERN scientists inexplicably present Higgs boson findings in Comic Sans
Sam Byford
Jul 4, 2012
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Design
Design
'Alphabet Topography' is a beautiful look at how often letters are used
Dante D'Orazio
Mar 24, 2012
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TL;DR
TL;DR
'Frustro' typeface applies the Penrose impossible triangle concept to words
Chris Welch
Mar 23, 2012
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