Ever wondered how fonts can impact the very development of technological progress? Uma Iyer explains how fonts changed the movement of technology itself. Think about reading a full article in the font ...

Your average handover of a brand involves sending over separate files for the logo, icons and animations, but a new identity ...

Impelled by a need to support emoji characters, Mozilla, Adobe, Microsoft, and Google are working to standardize technology for showing fonts that aren't just black and white. Stephen Shankland worked ...

The font company is releasing patented compression technology in an attempt to bring faster, nicer fonts to the Web, and Google is helping out the effort. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Bitstream Inc. announced the releases of Panorama® 4.5 and Font Fusion® 4.5. The Panorama upgrade includes additional support and features for all international language fonts including Arabic, Hebrew ...

The Web Open Font Format, already backed by Mozilla and many type foundries was accepted by the World Wide Web Consortium yesterday, marking the first stage in its standardization. The submission ...

In the early 1980s, my job in the graphics department at a newspaper meant spending a large part of my day typing words and control codes into a computer terminal to set type I’d use for headlines on ...

Efforts to bring advanced typography to the Web have reached an important milestone. Type designers Tal Leming and Erik van Blokland, who had been working to developing the .webfont format, combined ...

Dubai has become the first city in the world to get its own Microsoft font, the media reported. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai’s Crown Prince and Chairman of the Executive ...

This new feature was introduced in 2016 by major players in the type world. Since then, it has seen rapid adoption in software and web browsers: right now, it’s supported in Photoshop, Illustrator, ...