The author of a new dictionary of typefaces explains the origins of some of the best-known type–and their lesser-known namesakes. Editor’s note: In Sean Adams’s new book, The Designer’s ...

The courts strictly “discourage the use of Garamond.” A stream of Twitter opinions unleashed in the wake of the notice, which itself is (mostly) written in a non-serifed font. It turns out ...

The visual association with Garamond and Helvetica isn’t just name deep. These glasses really do look like the fonts they are named for. Helvetica’s sans-serif design, created in 1957 by Max ...

From Times New Roman to Garamond to Cambria ... paragraph structure, clear design of figures, and sensible spacing between lines and paragraphs”. In other words, font choice is probably an ...

Optical sizes in Garamond. Left: The correct use of optical sizes, “Green” set in a slimmer style for text printed large, “authority” in a thicker style for text printed small. Right: The wrong way ...