Over the past few years, I kept bumping into something called Hershey fonts. After digging around, I found a 1967 government report by a fellow named Dr. Allen Vincent Hershey. Back in the 1960s, he ...

In the pursuit of pixel-perfect typography, have we lost the origins of its artistry in place of efficiency? We talk to contemporary typographers as well as stone letterers who are keeping the origins ...

Why should medieval monks take all the credit for the art of illumination? Sure countless hours were spent in the abbey’s scriptorium inking up a single letter, but let’s fast forward to the hipsters ...