It’s a familiar problem for any designer: You’re walking down the street when you spot a glorious typeface in the wild–something that would be perfect for the project you’ve been working on. But you ...

There are certain celebrity fonts that get so much play, they’re instantly recognizable. (Looking at you, Helvetica, Comic Sans, and Times New Roman.) But it can be frustrating to sleuth the true ...

One of the greatest thrills of a font designer is to see their font being used in a prominent place: a TV show, a commercial, billboard, or—even more exciting—on the packaging of a popular product.

If you’re a designer, you’ll know that font selection can make or break the effectiveness of your work. Often times when I’m away from home I’ll see signs and ads with perfect type on them, and snap a ...

As designers, marketers, and fans of the Helvetica documentary know, picking a font is one of the most important decisions in the creation of Web and print materials. One of the best tools to help ...

A new real-world font scanning and automatic color picking device, Spector, may soon be hitting store and/or digital shelves soon — a Shazam for text formatting! Currently not marketed and lacking a ...

Chrome: If you're a designer or just curious to see what fonts are used on your favorite web sites, the free Chrome extension ‘What's the font?' reveals this information easily. After installing the ...

Font indecision is real. Help is just a few clicks away, as Adobe has a time-saving feature tucked into Photoshop. It's the Font browser, and it aims to solve your biggest typography headaches. The ...

Because I get asked this all the time, I thought I’d share with you the best way to identify a font. Does it look like Helvetica? It’s probably Arial. Does it look like a restaurant menu? It’s ...

In a PDF document, there are essentially two ways to display text. One way is to embed the text, including its font information, in the document file. The other way is to display the text as an image, ...

I learned two things while watching this aww-inducing video. Scarlett, the cute 2-year-old girl in the video, is a genius child with an eagle eye for instantly recognizing typefaces better than most ...