The fonts seen with old computer systems such as those from Apple and Commodore, as well as Microsoft Windows 3.1 and older, form an integral part of our interaction with these systems. These days ...

There’s an interesting cultural observation to be made as a writer based in Europe, that we like our sans-serif fonts, while ...

Pixel fonts represent an interesting era of type design. They were born out of necessity when low-res displays were the only ones around, and have now become a highly niche style of retro nostalgia.

Older arcade games such as ' Space Invaders ' and ' Pac-Man ' used bitmap fonts expressed on an 8x8 grid to save space. A movie has been released to explain how the fonts for arcade games were ...

When Thomas Rickner decided he wanted to be a type designer after a lecture on the history of Baskerville at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the mid-1980s, his typography professor had some ...

More than 40 years ago, designers drew and edited thousands of characters by hand to make it possible to type and print in Chinese. Bruce Rosenblum switched on his Apple II, which rang out a high F ...

CSS did not correspond well and the color of the web page was not rich, reproduced the font as 'it will be easy' When I started, I hit a wall of unexpected technology. In order to investigate the ...

Postscript is all but gone, and today, newer font standards such as TrueType and OpenType rule the roost. Here's how we got from desktop PostScript in the early '80s to today. When the Mac first ...

The most important thing for a company is its identity, which is nowadays successfully maintained by pictorial representations called logos. A logo makes a website or a company look complete; it ...