From the 1920s to the 2020s, we choose iconic fonts that reflect each decade and ask the experts why they worked. Whether or not design trends fit neatly into the confines of a decade, we all have an ...

You'll have seen Google Sans even if you didn't know it. The Google brand typeface is used across all of the company's marketing and UI design and in products from Search to Wallet. With around 120 ...

Icons that are set for each theme can be used free of charge on the web "Icon Fonts". There are things such as Twitter and Facebook that collect brand icons and pictograms on the web, and you can use ...

It's been used by brands such as American Airlines, Panasonic and Toyota. It's all over the signage in the New York City subway system. Even Google, Apple and Netflix used it for a time. Helvetica is ...

A new chapter is opening up for Monotype, the font and imaging technology specialist that is associated with some of the more iconic evolutions in typefaces in the digital age (if you know Times New ...

The 1940s was a decade shaped by global conflict, post-war reconstruction, and the rise of Modernist ideals. And the typography of the era reflects these dramatic contrasts neatly, with the best ...

Charles Nix, Mitch Goldstein, and Sarah Hyndman talk to NPR's Scott Simon about a recent face-lift to the typeface Helvetica, which recently got its first redesign in 35 years. The Helvetica typeface ...

If you’re an old school Apple fan, you may well remember the Cairo font. Cairo shipped with every version of macOS from 1984 through System 7.1. It was computer history’s first “dingbats” font in ...

The updated font even has a new name: "Helvetica Now." But like many changes, some people are skeptical. It's been used by brands such as American Airlines, Panasonic and Toyota. It's all over the ...