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Twitter Is Making Font Adjustments Again

Elon Musk's social media platform has tweaked the font in user handles, potentially as a security move.

New Font Mandate Creates Frenzy at State Department

The U.S. State Department is changing the decades-old tradition of using the Times New Roman font for internal documents.

Microsoft Wants Your Help Picking the Next Default Font in Office

Listen, Calibri. It’s not you, it’s Microsoft. After 15 years, Microsoft announced today that it’s commissioned five new custom fonts—one of which will replace Calibri as its default font. “Calibri has been the default font for all things Microsoft since 2007, when it stepped in to replace Times New Roman across Microsoft Office. It has…

A Microsoft Font Really Did Take Pakistan’s Prime Minister Down

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will resign his position immediately following a landmark decision by his country’s Supreme Court. Sharif has been under fire since last year, when leaked documents appeared to show his family had hidden wealth in shell companies overseas. Earlier this month, investigators revealed that crucial financial documents provided by the Sharifs…

Designer Creates A Typeface To Simulate His Experience With Dyslexia

Reading with dyslexia can be a frustrating experience, but explaining that experience can also be incredibly frustrating. So graphic designer Dan Britton created a typeface designed to replicate his emotional experience as a person with dyslexia reading text. Over at Dezeen, Britton, who was diagnosed with dyslexia while at university, talks a bit more about…

This Animated Alphabet Looks Like A Series Of Wriggling Parasites

Ari Weinkle‘s experimental typeface “Feelers” is inspired by the movements of animal appendages, and each letter does look alive. In fact, the look like they might squirm inside your body and start spelling out commands. You can watch the alphabet below, and you can also see all of the animated GIFs at once at Tumblr…

These Statements Are Both True, But One Is Easier To Believe

Presented with these two semantically identical statements, people will believe the top one more than the bottom one. Why is this? And what does it tell us about John Keats’ famous dictum about beauty and truth? Osorno is a city in Chile. This statement is a fact. But not everyone is familiar with Osorno’s municipal…

These Typefaces Are Tiny Math Puzzles Made by MIT Scientists

When quickly sending an email, creating a company logo, or writing a post about mathematical typefaces, hundreds of thousands of fonts exist to help express a specific mood or feeling though we rarely escape the realm of a well-known few. Although it’s well-documented that creating fonts can be an art, two mathematicians show that it…

A Typeface That Represents Average Handwriting from Around the World

What would a typeface that combines the handwriting of people all around the world look like? Something like this, it turns out. Bic (as in the pens) is behind the effort, which you can add your own handwriting to right here. You can further check out the results to see the differences broken down into…

Google Changed Its Logo This Weekend and You Didn’t Even Notice

If you were browsing the internet at all this past weekend, there’s a good chance you came across Google’s ubiquitous logo at some point during your travels. What you didn’t notice, however, is the fact that Google adjusted the letters in its logo ever so slightly—and it actually makes a pretty huge difference. As any…

When a Garbage Pail Looks Like the Samhain Logo

This Font Was Created By a Robot

This typeface may not look incredibly sophisticated, but give it a chance: it was, after all, created by a robot. An experiment by Egyptian designer Mostafa El Abasiry, Robosans is created by the robot pictured below. Gripping a brush, the robot was used to sweep out curves and create letters. A lot of trial and…

This Font Was Created Using Light Streaks From an iPhone

This font, called Phone Streak, might not be the most practical typeface in the world, but it was probably the most fun to create—because it was put together by capturing long exposures of an iPhone being swept through the air. Created by Marcus Byrne—a motion graphics designer—the font was created using a technique known as…

Chair-Themed Typography For Furniture Fetishists

Chairs come in all shapes and sizes—but you probably never expected it would be possible to create an entire alphabet out of them. Designer Tim Fishlock has put together this Typeseat print based around that exact idea, where each letter is represented by an iconic 20th century chair. He explains: A lot of my work…

Apple Posts Its Apology to Samsung Online, in Arial

Last week Apple lost an appeal against a UK High Court of Justice ruling, and was told to post a public apology to Samsung. In Arial. Now it’s popped up online. https://gizmodo.com/apple-forced-to-run-public-apology-in-14pt-arial-5952790 The apology isn’t a friendly “sorry I screwed up”, but a rather long, dull passage of legalese. No surprise, really, but it is…

This Typographic Chess Set Is Too Pretty to Play

This gorgeous typographic chess set, based around the Champion font by Hoefler Frere Jones, brings elegant simplicity to the game with each piece assuming the form of its initial. It’s almost too pretty to play. Developed by Jim Sutherland of Hat-Trick Design, each piece is laser cut from 25mm acrylic, and they range in size:…

The Font on Your Car’s Dash Might Increase Your Risk of Crashing

Drivers beware: new research from MIT’s Age Lab suggests that a badly chosen typeface for your dashboard can worsen distraction and increase your chance of crashing. The researchers have been trying to work out which commonly used dashboard fonts are easiest to read at a glance, and how they affect driver distraction. Turns out that…

How to Write Your Own Message in the Night Sky

Believe it or not, the picture you’re looking at isn’t a miraculous string of stars that just happen to spell out the name of this humble blog. In fact, it’s an image generated from a huge database of galaxies analyzed by citizen science project Galaxy Zoo. Launched in 2007, Galaxy Zoo has over 250,000 users…

Bigger Words Make Emotions More Intense

Scientists have shown that words printed in larger font sizes elicit a stronger emotional response. A report, published in PLoS ONE, has show that reading all kinds of words—positive, neutral, or negative—printed in larger fonts causes higher electrical potential in the brain than when words are printed in smaller fonts. Those increased voltages are experienced…

A is for Autobot: A mechanized font inspired by Transformers

Riccardo Sabatini pays tribute to technical drawings and Transformers with Mekkanika, a font composed of illustrated machines. The only question is, are his letters really robots in disguise? Sabatini combined his love of mechanical drawings and steampunk aesthetic to create Mekkanika. You can see the entire alphabet at Behance, as well as get a sense…