Figuring out the different types of typography can be as confusing as trying to say 'types of type' quickly. In this guide, we'll go through the categories you need to know, the defining features you ...

Digestive is a peculiar font. Its ornate, wiggly letters make it look a bit like calligraphy by aliens from outer space. But Digestive isn't just unusual in how it looks. It's also unusual in how it ...

If you're new to typography, it may feel like you have to learn a new language to understand what typographers are talking about. There are more terms that you can shake a stick at, and that's before ...

About four years ago, I received a surprising email—not surprising because of what it said, but because of the way it looked. The text was set in Courier, that font you see in movies when hackers ...

The trends shaping 2026 tell a story of designers and brands reaching for more personality, more craft, and quite frankly, ...

Adobe has announced that they will end support for creating content with Type 1 fonts by January 2023. Here's how you can prepare to make the shift to more widely supported formats. It's always ...

A technology invented at the dawn of the desktop-publishing age is about to expire. Developed by Adobe way back in the early 1980s, PostScript Type 1 fonts—a way of encoding vector-based type designs ...

The future of typography is uncertain. The future of typography is uncertain. Monotype isn’t alone in this kind of speculation. Typographers are keeping a close eye on AI as designers start to adopt ...

Erik and Martin Demaine, a father-and-son team of “algorithmic typographers,” have confected an entire suite of mathematically inspired typefaces. By Siobhan Roberts The verb “puzzle” — to perplex or ...